The Role of the Culture Institution on Digital Transformation of Society

The chapter presents the most important objectives of European Union for implementing digital transformation and developing citizens digital skills, in fact „digital culture for everybody”. In this context, there are analyzed the most representative cultural institutions such as libraries, museums, theaters and presents their main actions to keep the balance between traditional life and digital environment. The chapter pay more attention to the public libraries and theirs roll in developing the citizen digital skills, beside their main objective as cultural knowledge hub. The work is focused on the Romanian case where the need of digital skills is very different from a group of citizens to others. It is described the Romanian public library system and concrete initiatives at the national level, having as principal objective the transformation of the libraries in the digital cultural hub for citizen digital skills improving. There are also analyzed the needs of citizens and the type of courses (curricula) which could help them to improve their digital skills. The chapter describe too, the opportunities and difficulties from the libraries point of view to reach such tasks. It is taken into consideration the level of digital development of ICT private sector and the universities capabilities in order to help libraries and librarians to bring the courses for developing citizen digital skills. The conclusions underline the need of a social pact at the national level for improvement the citizens digital skills.