Digital Skills : Frameworks and Programs

Digital Skills : Frameworks and Programs

Digital skills constitute one of the five foundational pillars of the Digital Economy for Africa (DE4A) initiative, launched by the World Bank, and are needed to mobilize digital innovations to transform economies, societies and governments in Afri...

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Main Authors: Bashir, Sajitha, Miyamoto, Koji
Format: Report
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
Subjects:
DIGITAL SKILLS
DIGITAL DIVIDE
DIGITAL EDUCATION
DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY
DIGITAL ECONOMY
TRAINING
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/562351611824219616/Digital-Skills-Frameworks-and-Programs
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spelling okr-10986-350802021-04-23T14:02:15Z Digital Skills : Frameworks and Programs Bashir, Sajitha Miyamoto, Koji DIGITAL SKILLS DIGITAL DIVIDE DIGITAL EDUCATION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY DIGITAL ECONOMY TRAINING Digital skills constitute one of the five foundational pillars of the Digital Economy for Africa (DE4A) initiative, launched by the World Bank, and are needed to mobilize digital innovations to transform economies, societies and governments in Africa. The other foundational pillars are digital infrastructure, digital platforms, digital financial services and digital entrepreneurship. African economies require both a digitally competent workforce as well as digitally literate citizens who could reap the benefits that the digital society brings. This paper presents a framework for digital skills, based on a review of international frameworks. It discusses the demand and supply of digital skills as well as a mapping with formal education programs at different levels of the system that could produce these skills. It also gives examples of programs outside of formal education programs that could be used for imparting skills training. Finally, it suggests indicators that could be used to better measure progress towards the objectives of the DE4A initiative. 2021-02-01T15:15:57Z 2021-02-01T15:15:57Z 2020-04 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/562351611824219616/Digital-Skills-Frameworks-and-Programs http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35080 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Other Education Study Africa Africa Eastern and Southern (AFE) Africa Western and Central (AFW) Sub-Saharan Africa
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DIGITAL DIVIDE
DIGITAL EDUCATION
DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY
DIGITAL ECONOMY
TRAINING
spellingShingle DIGITAL SKILLS
DIGITAL DIVIDE
DIGITAL EDUCATION
DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY
DIGITAL ECONOMY
TRAINING
Bashir, Sajitha
Miyamoto, Koji
Digital Skills : Frameworks and Programs
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Africa Eastern and Southern (AFE)
Africa Western and Central (AFW)
Sub-Saharan Africa
description Digital skills constitute one of the five foundational pillars of the Digital Economy for Africa (DE4A) initiative, launched by the World Bank, and are needed to mobilize digital innovations to transform economies, societies and governments in Africa. The other foundational pillars are digital infrastructure, digital platforms, digital financial services and digital entrepreneurship. African economies require both a digitally competent workforce as well as digitally literate citizens who could reap the benefits that the digital society brings. This paper presents a framework for digital skills, based on a review of international frameworks. It discusses the demand and supply of digital skills as well as a mapping with formal education programs at different levels of the system that could produce these skills. It also gives examples of programs outside of formal education programs that could be used for imparting skills training. Finally, it suggests indicators that could be used to better measure progress towards the objectives of the DE4A initiative.
format Report
author Bashir, Sajitha
Miyamoto, Koji
author_facet Bashir, Sajitha
Miyamoto, Koji
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title Digital Skills : Frameworks and Programs
title_short Digital Skills : Frameworks and Programs
title_full Digital Skills : Frameworks and Programs
title_fullStr Digital Skills : Frameworks and Programs
title_full_unstemmed Digital Skills : Frameworks and Programs
title_sort digital skills : frameworks and programs
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2021
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/562351611824219616/Digital-Skills-Frameworks-and-Programs
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35080
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