{"id":979238,"date":"2025-12-09T11:32:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T06:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=979238"},"modified":"2025-12-09T11:32:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T06:02:26","slug":"digital-literacy-and-the-future-of-work-reflecting-and-preparing-indias-youth-for-the-digital-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/09\/digital-literacy-and-the-future-of-work-reflecting-and-preparing-indias-youth-for-the-digital-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital literacy and the future of work: Reflecting and preparing India\u2019s youth for the digital economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India has made impressive strides towards improving digital access, but the country\u2019s digital literacy levels still pose a huge gap. The latest National Sample Survey-based analysis shows that only 38% of Indian households are digitally literate with a significant gap between urban and rural regions. This contrasts with India\u2019s broader literacy progress, over 80% of the population is now literate, a milestone achieved through sustained efforts across government, private and social sectors. Yet while traditional literacy has grown steadily, digital literacy has not kept pace: only 12% of individuals above the age of 15 possess basic ICT skills. At the same time, India remains one of the largest digital economies globally, ranked as the third-largest economy yet placed 28th in digital user spending, reflecting a starling gap that needs redressal (source).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has made impressive strides towards improving digital access, but the country\u2019s digital literacy levels still pose a huge gap. The latest National Sample Survey-based analysis shows that only 38% of Indian households are digitally literate with a significant gap between urban and rural regions. This contrasts with India\u2019s broader literacy progress, over 80% of the population is now literate, a milestone achieved through sustained efforts across government, private and social sectors. Yet while traditional literacy has grown steadily, digital literacy has not kept pace: only 12% of individuals above the age of 15 possess basic ICT skills. At the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}