The EU reports that it’s falling behind in broadband service and digital skills

[Commentary] The European Union just released the 2014 Digital Scoreboard, which tracks member nations’ progress towards their digital goals and a digital single market, something the US already enjoys.

Though some objectives have been achieved, the EU is still far from meeting its goals in two key areas: closing the digital skills gap and deploying next generation networks. The EU reports that 90% of jobs require at least some digital skills but 39% of the workforce lacks those skills. Indeed, 100 million Europeans have never used the Internet, according to the report. That’s about 20% of the region’s population.

[Layton studies Internet economics at the Center for Communication, Media, and Information Technologies (CMI) at Aalborg University in Copenhagen]