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Comunidades Criativas para a Inclusão Digital (CCID)

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Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 97% 32/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

Creative Communities for Digital Inclusion (CCID) is an approach to promote digital inclusion, responding to the needs of people and their communities. The CCIDs are being developed within the scope of the Inclusion Hub with coordination by Sofia Marques da Silva. Currently the

14 centres

Digital inclusion centres operated

Details

Maturity: Established
Promoter: INCODE2030 — website
Type: Service
Status: Ongoing
Target groups: Elderly people, Marginalised young people and children, Migrants, Unemployed and those facing social problems
Period: 2019-07-31
Region (NUTS): PT17
Keywords: Centres for Digital Inclusion, Digital Skills, Vulnerable

Context

Part of the Inclusion Axis of Portugal's National Initiative for Digital Skills 2030 (INCoDe.2030), alongside the Education, Qualification, Specialisation and Research axes.

Objectives

Promote digital inclusion for the most vulnerable segments of the Portuguese population by responding to the specific needs of people and their communities.

Activities

Operates 14 Creative Communities for Digital Inclusion centres, coordinated by the Inclusion Hub under Sofia Marques da Silva, targeting elderly people, marginalised young people and children, migrants, and unemployed people or those facing social problems.

Implementation

Indicative cost: Medium (€50k–€500k)
Time to results: Long (> 3 years)
Staffing & skills: Coordinated by the Inclusion Hub (lead: Sofia Marques da Silva), operating under INCoDe.2030's Inclusion Axis

Conditions for success

Embedding within a national digital-skills strategy (INCoDe.2030) rather than standing alone
Distributed network of local centres tailored to community needs

Commonly funded by

National / regional programmes

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Data sources

Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.

MEDICI / Digital Inclusion Atlas — accessed 2026-06-14
Practice website — accessed 2026-06-14

Quality score: 32/100

How is this calculated?

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported

Top 97% in this catalogue (1041 scored practices)

Scores cluster high, so position within the catalogue is often more telling than the number alone.

Evaluation

Evaluated by MEDICI consortium

Score profile — the dimensions behind the score — how it's computed

Innovation level3/5

How novel the approach is, from the source innovation rating (graded 0–5).

Sustainability (ongoing)1/1

Whether the initiative is still ongoing rather than ended.

Evaluation evidence0/1

Whether a substantive evaluation of the initiative exists.

Demonstrated reach0/1

Whether the initiative reached a measurable number of people.

Documented learning0/1

Whether transferable lessons learned are documented.

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Evidoria. Comunidades Criativas para a Inclusão Digital (CCID). Persistent ID: b2a42221-da6c-499f-a197-b84a2dc4376f.

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