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Digital Competence has been acknowledged as one of the 8 key competences for Lifelong Learning by the European Union. Digital Competence can be broadly defined as the confident, critical and creative use of ICT to achieve goals related to work, employability, learning, leisure, inclusion and/or participation in society. Digital Competence is a transversal key competence which enables acquiring other key competences (e.g. language, mathematics, learning to learn, cultural awareness). It is related to many of the so-called 21st Century skills which should be acquired by all citizens, to ensure their active participation in society and the economy.

Document from UK's Quality Assurance Agency describing its key themes for the next 2 years. Digital literacy is one and it has some detail on what that means for institutions and embedding within the curriculum.

An open source tool to make sure you know who you are talking to online. Likely to be seen as too geeky by most.