YOUTH 2020 - The position of young people in Slovenia

Use of information and communications technology, and the digital environment  331 Figure 10.2: Independence in performing tasks related to information and communication technology (in %). 80% 20% 60% 40% Not at all I create websites or blogs using dedicated web services (e.g. WordPress, Blogger) Work simultaneously with others on the same document or file using cloud services (e.g. Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive) I understand the challenges involved in uploading information about myself online or using a digital footprint I filter a large number of hits very quickly I can assess whether online content is credible and trustworthy 32.2 6.5 17.0 9.5 6.2 5.5 5.1 18.6 17.3 17.0 18.3 15.5 16.8 26.2 39.6 33.8 41.1 15.4 40.4 34.9 38.8 36.5 4.1 1.8 3.6 2.4 More difficult Somewhat okay I'm doing quite well Easily Mean 0% 100% 2.7 3.9 4.0 4.0 Source: Mladina 2020. In accordance with the above, we can additionally interpret the data collected by the European Statistical Office (Eurostat, 2020) on the topic of performing various tasks online or in connection with ICT. It also shows that over 70% of young people perform basic computer tasks, which is about 20% more than the entire adult population. How- ever, the use of presentation applications and working with spread- sheets, photos, and videos, has already changed considerably and only about half of young people still use them (see Figure 11.4 in the appen- dix). When it comes to any knowledge of coding and computer languag- es, the share is just over a tenth of all young people (see Figure 11.5 in the appendix). Slovenia does not rank high among EU countries in terms of the share of young people familiar with computer programming. Addi- tionally, the fact that countries leading in this statistic (e.g. Denmark, Croatia) have twice the share of young people with such knowledge as Slovenia (see Figure 11.5 in the appendix) is particularly worrying. The