The 9 commitments to close the digital divide

1. Identify and share best practices to improve digital inclusion.
2. Investigate what stands in the way of digital inclusion and work out appropriate joint actions.
3. Encourage those at the top of the organisation to engage with and help guide this commitment.
4. Improve digital inclusion in the organisation by encouraging internal training courses and sharing actions and progress.
5. Promote digital inclusion outside the organisation to increase the number of signatories to this charter and its impact.
6. Support campaigns that aim to make digital inclusion a priority, because the general public still has insufficient knowledge of the digital divide.
7. Introduce a procedure in the organisation to assess the extent to which digital inclusion is promoted among staff, customers and beneficiaries.
8. Set up actions to increase trust in digital tools, improve the sense of online security and arm users against possible abuse.
9. Monitor the application of this charter and assess this with all signatories after three years so as to work out possible next steps.

Organisations that signed the charter

Ministers

• Bernard Clerfayt - Minister of the Government of the Brussels-Capital Region, responsible for Employment and Vocational Training, Digital Transition, Local Authorities and Animal Welfare
• Petra De Sutter - Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Public Administration, Public Enterprises, Telecommunication and Post
• Elio Di Rupo - Minister-President of Wallonia
• Jan Jambon - Minister President of the Government of Flanders and Flemish Minister for Foreign Policy, Culture, IT and Facilities
• Pierre-Yves Jeholet - Minister-President of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation
• Isabelle Weykmans - Minister for Culture and Sport, Employment and Media of the German-speaking Community

Organisations

• Accenture Belgium & Luxembourg - Kristof Lambert
• Actiris - Caroline Mancel
• Agentschap Binnenlands Bestuur - Jeroen Windey
• Agentschap Integratie & Inburgering - Sara Leunis
• Agoria - Jeroen Franssen
• Algorila - Pascal Rousset
• AlphaCredit - Philippe Bézieau
• Anysurfer - Bart Simons
• AquaFlanders - Brecht Vermeulen
• Armen TeKort - Mathias Crab
• Arval Belgium - Tony Peetermans
• aSmartWorld - Geoffroy Van Humbeeck
• BeCode - Ivan Keuller
• Beego - Frederick Scraeyen
• Belgian Mobile ID - itsme - Stephanie De Bruyne
• Bibliothèques Sans Frontières Belgique - Libraries Without Borders Belgium - Dimitri Verboomen
• BNP Paribas Fortis - Max Jadot
• Bpost - Dirk Tirez
• Campfire AI - Alexis Safarikas
• Campus 19 - Stéphan Salberter
• Capgemini Belgium - Annlore Defossez
• C.I.R.B. - C.I.B.G. - Marc Van den Bossche
• Child Focus - Heidi De Pauw
• Circular.Brussels - Dennis Adriaenssens
• City of Antwerp - Erica Caluwaerts
• City of Brussels - Fabian Maingain
• City of Charleroi - Eric Goffart
• City of Genk - Wim Dries and Sara Roncada
• City of Ostend - Vicky Pettens
• Close The Gap - Didier Appels
• Co.Station Belgium - Beatrice De Mahieu
• Craftzing - Roeland Tegenbos
• CTG Circular - Didier Appels
• Cyber Security Coalition - Fabrice Clément
• De Lijn - Ann Schoubs
• Delhaize - Alexandros Boussis
• De Watergroep - Hans Goossens
• DiAX - Jan De Smedt
• Digitaal Vlaanderen - Barbara van Den Houtte
• Digital Champion Belgium - Saskia Van Uffelen
• Digital Comfort Factory - Hans Demeyer
• DigitalForYouth.be - Philip Du Bois
• Dilaco - Jeff de Kleijn
• District09 - Sara Van Damme
• DNS Belgium - Philip Du Bois
• d-teach - Lieselot Declercq
• Easy Boomers - Claudia Le Clef
• Eleven Ways - Roel Van Gils
• Emino ASBL - Maxim Nuyens
• Enabel - Jean Van Wetter
• Erasmus Brussels University - Jurgen Dedeckere and Gerlinde De Clercq
• Farys - Ine Godefroid
• Febelfin - Wien De Geyter
• Federation of belgian enterprises (VBO - FEB) - Pieter Timmermans
• FeWeb - Patrick Marck
• Forem - Yves Magnan
• FPS Economy - Séverine Waterbley
• FPS Finance - Hans D'hondt
• FPS Policy and Support - Nico Waeyaert
• Hobo - Daan Vinck
• IBM - Petra Florizoone
• iDrops - Brecht Van den Begin
• In The Pocket - Jeroen Lemaire
• ING - Laurent Winnock
• Interface3.Namur - Christine Dereymaeker
• iTESE bv - Hans De Four
• Knowledge Centre Data & Society - Willemien Laenens
• Le monde des possibles - Didier Van der Meeren
• LINC vzw - Dieter Wijffels
• Link in de Kabel - David Loyen
• Maks - Veronique De Leener
• Microsoft Belgium and Luxembourg - Didier Ongena
• microStart - Boglárka Csatlos
• MolenGeek - Ibrahim Ouassari
• Namahn - Joannes Vandermeulen
• Nickel Belgium - Emmanuel Legras
• Nova Reperta - Béatrice de Mahieu
• Orange Belgium - Xavier Pichon en Isabelle Vanden Eede
• Out of Use - Yannick Adriaenssens
• Pidpa - Eddy Troosters
• POD Social Integration - Alexandre Lesiw
• Proximus - Guillaume Boutin
• Publicis Groupe Belgium - Eva Devos and Karel Vinck
• Roche Pharmaceuticals - Marie-José Borst
• Securex - Filip Baptist
• Signpost - Arne Vandendriessche
• Smartschool - Jan Schuer
• SNCB - Sophie Dutordoir
• Sociale Innovatie Fabriek - Ali Chari
• SOCIALWare - Antonio Tiani
• SPW - David Wattecamps
• Statik - Pieter Jelle De Brue
• Technobel - Hervé Docq
• TEO - Bien Vanderstappen
• The Digital Collective - Léa Ichikawa
• The Shift - Eglantine Eeckhout
• Unizo - Danny Van Assche
• Uqalify - Thierry Lescrauwaet
• UWE - Agnès Flémal
• VRT - Frederik Delaplace
• VUB - Ilse Mariën
• VVSG - Kris Snijkers
• WEB-BLENDERS - Bart Wuyts
• WeTechCare - Jean Deydie
• Womenpreneur - Sana Afouaiz

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