Digital competence in use

Abstract

Given the enormous and growing importance of technology in our everyday lives, digital competences have become the key question for real digital citizenship. During first years of the 21st Century, new skills and abilities were defined by international organizations and different governments in order to establish the new Framework for Digital Competencies that the citizens need. These new competences have become necessary life-long learning competences not only for students from all levels [16] but for all citizens. In the European framework, digital competence was firstly acknowledged in 2006 by the European Union as one of the key competences for life-long learning. However it was in 2013 that the concept was really developed, with a more through understanding provided by the DigComp Project launched by the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), under the supervision of the Education and Culture DG.