Latest ArticlesGood governance in the digital society requires the enhancement of citizens’ digital literacy and skills, a re-examination of citizens’ data rights in the “big data era” and a restructuring of the digital ethical order in the digital society. Digital literacy and skills are intrinsic requirements for citizens’ digital survival in a digital society. At present, the world is facing a serious “digital divide”, and the average level of digital literacy among citizens in China is not high, so it is necessary to strengthen popular education and publicity in the future to steadily improve digital literacy and skills of all citizens in China. Citizens are deeply embedded in the production process of “big data”, and the transfer of rights has become a source of risk, and “data hegemony” has become a serious challenge to citizens’ data rights, and it is necessary to continuously protect citizens’ data rights through the enlightenment of ideas and the creation of institutions in the future. The healthy development and sound governance of the digital society require a rethinking of traditional social values and norms of behavior, and the establishment of a governance mechanism and system that includes the participation of multiple actors to jointly shape a new ethical order for digital technology.
At present, the worldwide digital literacy and skill assessment are mainly in the field of research, education, and skill certification, while a wider range of citizens’ digital literacy and skill assessment has become a trend and practical need. Based on the typical analysis of the EU Digital Competence Framework and its assessment practice, this paper puts forward some suggestions on the assessment of Chinese citizens’ digital literacy and skills: We should strengthen the basic research on digital literacy and skills to build a robust and scalable assessment system, select appropriate assessment schemes to take into account domestic characteristics and international comparability, pay attention to the effective use of the assessment results to promote the overall improvement of digital literacy and skills of the whole people.
With the advent of the digital era, citizens can only meet the needs of daily study, work and life if they have certain digital literacy and skills. The research on digital literacy and skills framework started early, and the composition of digital competence areas has reached a certain degree of consensus; its evaluation index system and measurement method are the key and difficult points of the follow-up research. China’s booming digital economy and digital transformation put forward higher requirements for citizens’ digital literacy and also creates conditions for the research and construction of a new pattern index system adapted to national conditions. Based on the evaluation goal for promoting digital literacy and skills improvement of China’s huge population, the idea of “SPOON” on assessment is innovatively proposed. Model A.S.M. is constructed and an index system and assessment method based on national conditions and international comparison are interpreted in this paper, focusing on “promoting construction through evaluation”, “promoting use through evaluation”“promoting strength through evaluation” and bridging the digital divide to promote the all-round development and modernization of people and lay a solid foundation for Chinese path to modernization.
To solve the practical problem that the science popularization action of science and technology innovation main bodies is weak in the implementing and organizing system of science popularization in the whole society of China, the paper regarded science and technology innovation main bodies as the focus of high-level transformation of science popularization supply system in the new period. Based on the historical, theoretical and realistic logic analysis, the paper explained the basic meaning of strengthening science popularization supply of science and technology innovation subjects in the new period, and constructed a conceptual model of science popularization organization implementation with science and technology workers as the core, and analyzed its basic characteristics. At the same time, by fully drawing on the typical practices of relevant institutions of domestic and abroad, adhering to the general idea of continuing to strengthen policy guidance, we proposed to build a “three guarantees” comprehensive performance management system for knowledge producers, create an interest-driven mechanism for science popularization to help knowledge producers innovate and start businesses, and optimize online and offline science popularization communication networks according to the principle of party supervising propaganda, based on science popularization, we should explore academic exchanges and cooperation in the new era and other policy suggestions to guide the science popularization supply of science and technology innovation main bodies.
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