This week, the first edition of the AEB Foundation’s Alcanza Awards has been decided. Its aim is to highlight the efforts made by non-profit organisations in innovative projects in financial education, digital skills training and the use of cybersecurity practices. There are three categories: inclusion and people with disabilities, children and young people, and older people.
Knowledge is the main asset of our society. If investment in training is essential, it is no less so in financial education and digital skills training. These are essential skills for people’s daily lives and future. On the one hand, having basic financial knowledge enables us to make economic decisions that are appropriate to our needs and expectations. Meanwhile, digital skills training is the best passport to the benefits of adopting new technologies, enabling people to access new, practical and agile ways of communicating and managing.
Digitalisation and sustainability converge at the same point: people. Because digitalisation is all the more valuable the more it extends its benefits to society as a whole. And sustainability is not limited to the environmental aspect; it also refers to the social sphere, improving wellbeing, promoting inclusion and cohesion, and proper, transparent governance, both by governments and by companies.
And that social component once again finds a fundamental element in education. In acquiring knowledge and skills that make people freer and societies more capable. Training is an extraordinary tool for generating talent and, with it, creating progress.
José Luis Martínez Campuzano, Spokesperson for the Spanish Banking Association
