评估数字技能政策:评估意大利推广计划的潜在影响

IF 5.9 2区 管理学 Q1 COMMUNICATION
Francesco Olivanti, Luca Gastaldi
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摘要

长期以来,学者和政策制定者已经确定了一些利益相关者,他们的活动应有助于减少数字不平等现象;这些利益相关者包括 "外联行动",即各实体主动超越其传统边界,接触边缘化公民。我们的研究填补了这一空白,对意大利的伪面板数据集进行了静态和动态分析。我们汇总了 2014-2020 年具有代表性的全国调查数据,并通过推广数字扫盲的公共活动数量来代表外展活动。静态模型强调了系统变量的作用:教育、就业、宽带覆盖率和社会联系。动态模型显示,推广活动和图书馆活动围绕趋势产生了积极的波动,但最终趋于平稳。我们的结论是,需要一种政策组合:推广活动是短期内刺激社区发展的有效工具,但要缩小数字技能差距,还需要其他更具结构性的干预措施。这些结果尤其适用于意大利和美国等国家,这些国家目前正在尝试以外联为导向的政策,以提高基本的数字技能。
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Evaluating digital skills policies: Assessing the potential impact of outreach programs in Italy

Scholars and policymakers have long identified stakeholders whose activities should help reduce digital inequalities; these include “outreach initiatives,” where entities proactively go beyond their traditional boundaries to reach marginalized citizens. However, few studies have attempted to evaluate the potential impact of this approach quantitatively.

Our research fills this gap, employing a static and dynamic analysis of a pseudo-panel dataset relating to Italy. We aggregate data from a representative national survey for the years 2014–2020, and we proxy outreach through the number of public events promoted to spread digital literacy.

The static model highlights the role of systemic variables: education, employment, broadband coverage, and social connectedness. The dynamic model shows that outreach and library activism create positive fluctuations around the trend but reach a plateau.

We conclude that a policy mix is needed: outreach is a helpful tool to stimulate communities in the short term, but other, more structural interventions are required to close the digital skills gap. These results are relevant especially for countries, like Italy and the US, that are now experimenting with outreach-oriented policies to boost basic digital skills.

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Telecommunications Policy
Telecommunications Policy 工程技术-电信学
CiteScore
10.80
自引率
12.50%
发文量
122
审稿时长
38 days
期刊介绍: Telecommunications Policy is concerned with the impact of digitalization in the economy and society. The journal is multidisciplinary, encompassing conceptual, theoretical and empirical studies, quantitative as well as qualitative. The scope includes policy, regulation, and governance; big data, artificial intelligence and data science; new and traditional sectors encompassing new media and the platform economy; management, entrepreneurship, innovation and use. Contributions may explore these topics at national, regional and international levels, including issues confronting both developed and developing countries. The papers accepted by the journal meet high standards of analytical rigor and policy relevance.
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