Digital competence and the safety awareness base on the assessments results of the Middle East-European generations

Abstract

Digital competence has become increasing importance for social and individual since the 20th century. Due to the spread of digital devices and the Internet, the basic IT knowledge is essential for everybody. Different defence mechanisms have emerged against the danger of the material world. The cyber era started only a few decades ago. Civil people are not aware of attacks in the Cyber space and they can’t survey its danger. In Hungary the information technology and the Internet penetration started in the last some decades. “Gen X” and older generation people users only in theirs adulthood met digital devices and its application. For the said generations to find a workplace was not required the digital competence, because the digital devices and the digital infrastructure wasn’t available for everybody. This age-group has not enough motivation to improve the digital competence and herewith develop the safety awareness too. Nowadays this age-group needs significant helps to correspond to the challenge of the digital world. The digital competence and the safety awareness are improvable by the way of education. The knowledge levels are very different between the same age users. The assessment and the determination of the levels are a complex problem. Skills and routine levels of the users are approximately well determinable by questionnaire. The development of the different digital competence and safety awareness level user’s is workable by different knowledge transmission. I introduce in this paper like my research synthesis the assessment and the classification of the tested age-groups.