Digital Literacy – The over 50s may be better with IT than we think
The publication this month of the Government Digital Strategy (1) and this week’s House of Lords Communications Committee report, ‘Growing Up with the Internet’ (2), has placed digital literacy high on the agenda again. This is a vital life skill, essential for living and holding down a modern job. Given the rapid expansion of technology, and IT skills education in schools, it cannot be a surprise that there is an age profile in digital literacy. But when examined in detail, this data, and other evidence about the IT capabilities of the over 50s, suggest that the picture is much more...