Digital Skills and Readiness
Digital skills are what is needed by individuals to use the internet. These skills include finding, evaluating, using, sharing and creating content using a computer.
Digital skills are essential to function in today’s digital world, which prioritizes the internet as a place for sharing information, distributing resources, education, quality of life services and civic participation. In fact, almost every career requires some basic digital skills including:
- Effective online information research.
- Using email.
- Navigating the internet safely.
- Word processing and creating and managing electronic documents.
- Using video conferencing and other meeting tools.
- Basic device management like creating folders, connecting to the internet, installing software updates and keeping devices safe.
- Using common tools and online applications for activities such as e-commerce, banking, telehealth and more.
Ensure training is available in your community. Below are some resources that provide self-paced training: