Norwegian AI strategy emphasises digital skills in school curriculum, targets life-long training

Norwegian Minister of Digitisation Nikolai Astrup has presented a new strategy concerning Artificial Intelligence (AI). The aim is to give digital skills more prominence at school and also to encourage adults to keep training throughout their lives. A Norwegian version of the popular Finnish course'Elements of AI' will appear in 2020, it added. The government wants digital skills and technology literacy to be given more prominence at primary and lower secondary school level. Under a curriculum renewal, natural science will be made a more exploratory and practical subject at primary school, with a distinct technology element that includes programming.