The PADD project will address the gap between political goals, at EU and national level, to equip citizens with IT skills and the reality that large numbers of citizens do not yet possess these basic skills nor do they have access to IT training. PADD will develop a model to address this 'digital divide' by providing marginalised social groups with IT skills/training, to include the old, the unemployed and people in marginalised communities. PADD will train 40 tutors, over 30-40 hours, in the necessary technical and pedagogical competencies for IT training. A fully developed IT training programme will then be tested on 400 beneficiaries with the aim of making them computer literate. The training programme will equip beneficiaries to use IT to access information & services and to pursue educational, training and employment opportunities. The PADD curriculum will focus on practical computer/web-based tasks from letter writing through to flight booking. PADD will also provide beneficiaries with online Toolkits, in areas such as early child development and access to government/EU services, so beneficiaries are in a position to impart their acquired skills to peers and families. The project will assess beneficiaries' skills in navigating practical IT tasks and will award the 'e-Citizen Award' certificate. The project will develop IT resource materials and utilise community-based IT infrastructure and human resources. All materials will be translated into the languages of the partner countries as the complete PADD package will be tested and launched in all countries. The PADD website will host the course material and will be a source for dissemination of information about PADD. A quarterly PADD e-magazine will be published, and project partners will further host an exhibition to demonstrate PADD's scope and application.