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6.5 Specific Recommendations
These considerations lead to a number of natural recommendations:
a. That CEPIS review the issues flagged in section 6.3 with the EU Commission’s ICT Skills
Monitoring Group to clarify the degree of importance they justify and the priorities for possible
future CEPIS contributions to policy development at the European level;
b. That, in the light of the outcomes of these discussions, CEPIS explore with the European
Commission ways on which this preliminary work can be extended, possibly in partnership (e.g.
with Career-Space, EICTA, and/or EISA), in order to improve the validity of the evidence available
on key issues for future policymaking in relation to IT Practitioner skills at the European level;
c. That this exploration explicitly consider the relative importance of the different possible
extensions of coverage listed in 6.4;
d. That, as part of the follow-on work, CEPIS Member Societies convene within their own countries,
in partnership with key representatives of national ICT employers and government, reviews of
the national skills position that could serve to improve the validity of each national component of
the overall EU-level analysis;
e. That relevant Eurostat officials, as well as representatives of national statistical offices, take part in
these reviews, in order to explore ways of improving the comparability of national occupational
statistics in this area, and of contributing to the development of increasingly harmonized
occupational frameworks for IT Practitioner occupations within Europe.
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