Email, electronic ID, smartphone payments, applications for managing administrative procedures… The digitized world in which we currently live requires extensive technological knowledge to be able to function fluently in day-to-day tasks. With the voracity with which new apps come onto the market or office software are updated, it is necessary to have basic digital skills to be able to respond to any management digitally. However, according to the monographic ‘Digital Competences’ of the National Observatory of Technology and Society (Ontsi), a consultative body of the entity Red.es, only “64% of the Spanish population has basic digital competences”. Following this study, it is expected that by 2030, 80% of Spaniards will have basic digital notions.
What is meant by digital competence? The Ministry of Education and Vocational Training of the Government defines as digital competence all that “creative, critical and safe use of information and communication technologies to achieve the objectives related to work, employability, learning, the use of time freedom, inclusion and participation in society”. In other words, all that knowledge that allows us not only to know how digital tools work, but also to have critical and responsible knowledge.
The report DigComp 2.0: The Digital Competence Framework for Citizens from the European Commission groups the digital skills that Europeans should have into five groups
