DiSTO NL
Country context
- The Netherlands ranks 10th in the world for human development (Source: UNDP), with a Gini of 25.7 (Source: World Bank)
- The Dutch curriculum integrates media studies and computing into elementary and secondary education
- The Dutch government is active in policy making around digital inequalities, but this mainly accounts for providing accessible content for all. There is limited attention paid to improving motivation, usage opportunities and outcomes. Some agencies focus on digital skills (e.g. municipalities, UWV, Tax and Custom organization)
- Multi stakeholder partnerships are working on issues of digital skills and inequalities, such as Mediawijzer.net and ECP
- There is a research group (led by Alexander van Deursen) at the University of Twente that actively works on conceptualisations and measurements of digital inequalities

▶ Alexander van Deursen – Digital inequalities and IoT
DiSTO NL projects
DiSTO NL projects include the bi-annual DiSTO NL survey and involvement in ySkills. There are also and digital skills for the Dutch workforce.