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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
In this video, which is part of a series of short interviews with the international partners of the From Digital Skills to Tangible Inequalities project, Professor Alexander van Deursen (University of Twente) summarises his research agenda and shares some surprising insights resultant from his study.

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.