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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.

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). 

Ministry of Education

Ministry of Education

Annual

Percentage (%)

This indicator makes the link between ICT usage and impact and helps measure and track the level of proficiency of users. A high value indicates that a large share of the reference population has the ICT skill being measured.

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.

is by age or age-group, sex, location. 

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.

PICTa = ICTa

               Pa

where:

PICTa,s = percentage of people in age group a who have ICT skill s

ICTa,s    = number of people in age group a who have ICT skill s

Pa           = population in age group a

To substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship.

This indicator is relatively new but 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 Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development’s Core List of Indicators, which was endorsed by the UN Statistical Commission in 2014.

The indicator is based on the responses provided by interviewees regarding certain computer-related activities that they have carried out in a reference period of time. However, it is not a direct assessment of skills nor do we know if those activities were undertaken effectively.

A survey is needed to derive data for all youth and adult.

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