They do so by helping individuals become digital, by promoting e-skills in education, fostering e-government services, encouraging entrepreneurship, supporting businesses to embrace new technologies and be more competitive, contributing to research and innovation.
[2] They also advise the European Commission on the implementation of the Digital Agenda for Europe.
The European Commission regularly interact with the Digital Champions and this exchange provides a valuable platform to discuss, compare and expand action at grass-roots level.
[2] On 14 February 2012 the European Commission President José Manuel Barroso wrote to Member States and asked them to take further dedicated action to make the Digital Single Market a reality.
[4][5] The first meeting of the Digital Champions and Vice-President Kroes was held in Brussels in June 2012.