nbn Digital Capability Self-Assessment Tool
nbn has recently released a Digital Capability Self-Assessment Tool in the interests of addressing digital literacy challenges across Australia.
The nbnTM Digital Capability Tool is designed to help you measure your digital capability and show you how to take steps towards further improvement. In an increasingly digital world, being able to communicate online with friends and family, operate a device and store data safely and securely is critical.
The nbn™ Digital Capability Self-Assessment Tool takes just 5 mins for an individual to get an assessment. Whilst there will be many who will be comfortable with their result, there will be others who will want to grasp the opportunity to grow and become more digitally enabled. At the end of the questionnaire the individual will quickly be able to visualise where they fit on a rating scale guide that includes these types:
o Cautious Adopter - Typically someone at an early stage in developing their digital capabilities and only uses technology for very basic functions, such as sending a text message
o Digitally Responsive - Someone who might only engage with technology in response to a specific need or only when there are limited to no other options.
o Pragmatist - Someone who is still developing their digital skills however they are capable of figuring things out as they are required.
o Problem solver - Someone who has enough knowledge of most digital capabilities to get by in everyday situations involving technology and is growing in confidence.
o Learner - Someone who is digitally inquisitive is skilled in some digital capabilities but often developing in select areas, and therefore is always eager to learn more.
o Lifestyler - Someone to whom technology is seamlessly integral to everyday living.
o Visionary - Someone who is advanced across most digital capabilities, however, may still have more to learn in a certain area.
o Digital leader - Someone who is highly skilled in all things digital and is constantly imagining new and inspiring ways to enhance daily tasks using technology.
Access the tool here
While digital capability in Australia continues to improve, the gap between the measured capability of Australians in regional, rural and remote Australia, compared to metropolitan areas remains too big. Insights from the tool will also be used to help nbn respond to community needs. This tool will enable us as well as our partners, industry stakeholders and community leaders to better understand not just what is needed to lift capability, but where that need is most acute.