Tracking India's digital progress: The need for measuring digital skills
Digitalisation has been a big part of the national agenda in the last decade. In a post-pandemic world, SDG 4.4.1 — about youths’ digital literacy skills — has emerged as a key competency goal, which might also dictate future opportunities available to youth. This document encourages the development of a uniform definition of digital literacy for G20 member nations, including India, so that they can design strategies and assessments for their respective national digital skills agenda. In addition, the many drawbacks of a self-reported format make it important to design and implement performance-based assessments that examine respondents’ ability to actually use digital skills in their daily life. Hence, India must invest in developing an assessment mechanism that provides a comprehensive understanding of the country’s current digital literacy levels, which can guide policy development and implementation.
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