Abstract : The European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) began
as a project which set out to define the computer skills required by the
ordinary citizen to take advantage of the new end user technology. The
project started in 1995 and since that time ECDL has become the leading
digital literacy certification in the world with almost 10 million
candidates enrolled in the programme. The core ECDL consists of seven
modules, defined by a syllabus which is agreed by an international panel
of users and experts and certifies that the holder has the competencies
required to perform basic tasks using a personal computer, can use a
computer in practice and understands the basic concepts of information
technology [1]. This paper describes the creation of the ECDL, together
with the unique organizational structure which enabled the wide
implementation of ECDL, initially in Europe and later throughout the
world as the International Computer Driving License (ICDL).
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Denise Leahy, Dudley Dolan. History of the European Computer Driving
Licence. IFIP WG 9.7 International Conference on History of Computing (HC) / Held as Part of World Computer Congress (WCC), Sep 2010, Brisbane, Australia. pp.134-145, ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-15199-6_14⟩. ⟨hal-01054658⟩