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The purpose of this indicator is to discern whether youth/adults are effectively using information and communication technology skills.

The proportion of youth and adults with information and communications technology (ICT) skills, by type of skill as defined as the percentage of youth (aged 15-24 years) and adults (aged 15 years and above) that have undertaken certain computer-related activities in a given time period (e.g. last three months). ICT skills determine the effective use of information and communication technology. The lack of such skills continues to be one of the key barriers keeping people, and in particular women, from fully benefitting from the potential of information and communication technologies.

Ministry of Education (MOE)

Ministry of Education (MOE)

Annual

Percentage (%)

This indicator is based on an internationally-agreed definition and methodology, which have been developed under the coordination of International Telecommunications Union (ITU), through its Expert Groups and following an extensive consultation process with countries. It is also one of the Partnerships on Measuring ICT for Development’s Core List of Indicators, which was endorsed by the UN Statistical Commission in 2014.

Computer-related activities to measure ICT skills include:

• Copying or moving a file or folder;
• Using copy and paste tools to duplicate or move information within a document;
• Sending e-mails with attached files (e.g. document, picture, and video);
•  Using basic arithmetic formulae in a spreadsheet;
• Connecting and installing new devices (e.g. modem, camera, printer);
• Finding, downloading, installing and configuring software;
•  Creating electronic presentations with presentation software (including text, images, sound, video or charts);
•  Transferring files between a computer and other devices; 
• Writing a computer program using a specialised programming language.

A computer refers to a desktop computer, a laptop (portable) computer or a tablet (or similar handheld computer). It does not include equipment with some embedded computing abilities, such as smart TV sets or cell phones.

This indicator is disaggregated by age or age-group of students, sex, location and socio-economic status if collected in the relevant survey.

The indicator is calculated as the percentage of people in a given population who have responded ‘yes’ to a selected number of variables e.g. the use of ICT skills in various subject areas or learning domains, the use of ICT skills inside or outside of school and/or workplace, the minimum amount of time spend using ICT skills inside and outside of school and/or workplace, availability of internet access inside or outside of school and/or workplace, etc.

This indicator is used to assist the Ministry of Education in integration of ICT in the learning process; Usage of ICT’s in the classroom to work on information processing, authentic communication, and on the learner autonomy, as the builder of his or her own learning process.

• One main issue is that the definition of IEA assessment does not include programming while ITU definition does.
• This indicator is not a direct assessment of skills nor is it known if activities were/will be undertaken effectively.

All the metadata shown in this document was gathered from United Nation Statistics Division. The metadata was extracted from https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/.