E-inclusion is a Key Factor in Youth Employment and Equalization

While the well known term digital divide refers to the gap between those who can effectively use ICT tools, such as the Internet, and those who cannot, the term e-Inclusion refers to the effective participation of individuals and communities in all dimensions of the knowledge-based society and Knowledge-Base economy through their access to ICT. The effect of ICT in industry and in the creation of new markets for e-services is evolving up, thus the e-skills is becoming a requisite for workplace and for today's lifestyle. In this paper we show that e-Inclusion polices and strategies have to be in place to widen the youth opportunities in employment and participation in the new knowledge-based economies and societies. In addition, we propose a new e-Inclusion digital gaps model which can provide policy makers with a better understanding to the digital gaps phenomena, and assist them in designing e-Inclusion polices and strategies for bridging these digital gaps.