SDG target 4.4 aims to ‘substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship.’ As digital technology permeates all sectors, digital skills have become essential for general employability and entrepreneurship.
Additional digital skills beyond digital literacy are important for people's livelihoods. Such digital skills include web design, desktop publishing and digital marketing, which prepare students for jobs in these areas or help entrepreneurs use these tools to publicise and grow their business. They also include technical digital skills that are needed to become a specialist in digital professions, such as data analysis, hardware design, network management and software programming. There is a large technological skills gap across gender and income and between high-income and low- and middle- income countries.


Research Guidance:

The companydisclosesinformation on the resources invested in its digitalskills developmentprogramme,the activities,as well as the immediate results or reach of the programme. This includesbut not limited toinformation on how much money was allocated, donated, or invested in the programme; metrics related to personnel involvement, such as number ofvolunteer hours, number of employees deployed, or time allocated tothe specificprogramme development or delivery; disclosures of material, technology, or infrastructure provided; participation, satisfaction or engagement metrics, number of people directly reached or supported, number of organisations supported. A company‚s reporting of aggregated metrics for all their digital inclusion efforts is not accepted.