From 1 January 2009, all public administration employees in Slovakia will be required to hold an ECDL certificate as proof of their computer literacy. The drive to introduce this qualification was started up under the previous Slovak government and is being continued by the present government as a means of ensuring the computer literacy of public sector employees.

The training programme falls under the responsibility of the Slovak Ministry of Transport, Post and Telecommunications. It is currently only available to public administration employees in the Bratislava region, but will be expanded to other Slovak regions from the beginning of 2007. By October 2006, some 6.716 public administration employees, from 47 offices and institutions in the Bratislava region, had already taken part in the programme.

The ECDL, known as the International Computer Driving Licence (ICDL) outside Europe, is the world's leading end-user computer skills certification programme. The ECDL Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to helping to raise the general level of computer skills in society and providing access for all to the information society. Its training programmes are currently available in over 146 countries worldwide.

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