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The digital economy and digital participation are essential to building a 21st century knowledge economy.

Fully employing information and communications technologies (ICT) is the single most important step that can be taken to improve competitiveness and promote innovation, productivity and prosperity, whilst a skilled and competent workforce is critical to the success of every sector. This creates a big challenge: to significantly enhance business and technology skills at all levels.

IDEA aims to contribute to addressing this challenge by developing and delivering a unique skills escalator and associated business solutions for the digital economy.  

IDEA Ltd was launched by the Prime Minister in February 2009 and is a joint venture between BT, Cisco, University College London, University of East Anglia, University of Essex, University Campus Suffolk and Suffolk New College. The work of IDEA builds on the strengths of these founding partners to create innovative solutions to skills and training requirements and the promotion of qualificatory success through a skills escalator.

Full details of what this means as an employer or student can be found from the main menu.