Brian Fallow: Digital skills are essential skills
22 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM
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If the online world ever leaves you frustrated, you're not alone. Photo / Getty Images
OPINION:
Ever feel like a bewildered immigrant in the land of digital natives? If so, you aren't alone.
The BNZ's Digital Skills Report, summarising the results of survey commissioned by the bank and
carried out by Colmar Brunton, describes a level of deficiency in essential digital skills that is disturbing for anyone who cares about inequality or about productivity.
The survey of 1000 members of the general public aged 18 or older found 95 per cent had access to the internet at home, an improvement on the 86 per cent in the 2018 census or 91 per cent in the 2017 New Zealand election study. And 89 per cent said they used it every day.