Contribution to the development of a Global Digital Literacy Skills indicator

SDG 4 thematic Indicator 4.4.2: “Percentage of youth/adults who have achieved at least a minimum level of proficiency in digital literacy skills” is also known as the Digital Literacy Skills indicator. The aim, shared between the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and ITU, is to create a global indicator for Digital Literacy Skills. UNESCO is the policy owner of the Digital Literacy Skills indicator whereas ITU provides the data for the indicators. <br />
To develop a methodology that can serve as the foundation for SDG 4.4.2., the UNESCO commissioned a worldwide wide review of digital skills and digital literacy frameworks. The review concluded, in June 2018, that the European Digital Competence framework is the most &quot;valuable and suitable basis for the development of a global digital literacy framework.&quot; <br />
In order to guide the monitoring of skills development and measurement of skills indicators on the ITU model questionnaire, the ITU meeting of the Expert Group on ICT Household Indicators, which took place in Geneva on October 17-18 2018, also adopted the proposal by the task force to use the Digital Competence Framework for Citizens (DigComp) for this purposes.