ICTD capacity building

The European e-Competence Framework (e-CF) was developed through a collaboration of the European ICT sectors as a tool to support mutual understanding and provide a common language for ICT competences, skills and capability levels that can be understood across Europe.

SFIA is an ICT industry standard adopted by the U.K. Government to inform and guide the Government ICT Capability Strategy. Thus, it is a unique private-public hybrid in setting up its Government IT profession competency and skills framework.

This is the final report for the project commissioned by Innovation & Business Skills Australia (IBSA) to confirm and validate, through consultation with experts, existing and new skill sets and competencies fundamental to digital literacy. While this report has achieved its aim to confirm the broad skill sets and competencies underpinning digital literacy in Australia, it is the backdrop to this study that is most likely to become the focus.

The AQF is the national policy for regulated qualifications in Australian education and training. It incorporates the qualifications from each education and training sector into a single comprehensive national qualifications framework. The AQF articulates competency units for various industries, including ICT, and are actively being referenced by formal and vocational education providers in the country.

Singapore has developed the NICF as a joint effort between the WDA and the IDA to serve the businesses and individuals in the ICT industry, or the Infocomm industry.

The Philippines is unique in the implementation of holistic national-level ICT competency standards for all public sector employees and citizens. Coined as the NICS, they chart the set of knowledge and skills an individual must possess in specific ICT fields and areas. The purpose of the NICS is to aid in performance management, professional development and professionalization of human capital in government, industry and academe.

The Philippines is unique in the implementation of holistic national-level ICT competency standards for all public sector employees and citizens. Coined as the NICS, they chart the set of knowledge and skills an individual must possess in specific ICT fields and areas. The purpose of the NICS is to aid in performance management, professional development and professionalization of human capital in government, industry and academia.

The Skills Competency Matrix is a part of national ICT initiative of Malaysia to link between the “Job Functions” and “Skills Competency.” This matrix provides a common Terms of Reference for companies’ Human Resource personnel to specify their human capital requirements in a coherent manner, while allowing the others to understand the job roles available and skills competency expected.

The e-GCF with implementation toolkit provides easy to follow steps about how to structure an e-Governance team and how to conduct fact based training needs analysis for competency benchmarking.