[Chapter-delegates] Measuring On-line Skills and experience

[Alan Levin]

Hi,

On 09 May 2007, at 10:35 AM, Omar D. Al-Sahili wrote:
> Have anyone worked on developing indicators to measure Internet  
> literacy?
Very interesting question. You list some very basic indicators. Good  
start.

On 09 May 2007, at 10:49 AM, Tony Hill wrote:

> The Australian Computer Society is a member of ISOC-AU and has  
> participated in developing an International Computer Driving  
> Licence.  See:
> http://www.acs.org.au/icdl/

Also interesting. The CSSA (Computer Society of SA) is a group of  
computer professionals and as ISOC-ZA we see ourselves more as a  
group of users where Internet/Computer professionals form only a part  
of our membership, i.e. a piece of the pie.

> The International Computer Driving Licence (ICDL) is a competency  
> standard endorsed by the Australian Computer Society. The ICDL is  
> the standard for computer literacy in over 140 countries.

Not just endorsed by, very much owned by. Interestingly the CS  
'chapters' earn a great deal of revenue from the ICDL, a model that  
as ISOC chapters we can learn from.

> The ICDL is designed for a person to 'drive' a computer with the  
> same ease as they might drive a car.
We do not endorse the ICDL because we believe it's designed for  
Windows and not 'a computer'. If you ask any ICD Licensee any generic  
question, they do not know the answer although they know the answer  
in MS speak.

There's also http://openicdl.com which I personally feel meets the  
purposes/goals you mentioned that ICDL attempts. OpenICDL was largely  
developed in South Africa including some of our members.

warm regards

Alan



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