Digital literacy is an important prerequisite for expanding the use of digital technologies in USAID’s environment, energy, and infrastructure (EEI) portfolio, which helps tackle global challenges like climate change, energy and water services insecurity, and access to sustainable infrastructure. In addition to increasing the use of digital tools across this sector, incorporating digital literacy into EEI programming can also help ensure that USAID stakeholders create an enabling environment for digitalization to thrive. However, because the implementation of digital tools in the EEI sector can have significant legal implications (for example, when they are utilized for land tenure registries or as anti-wildlife trafficking tools) and has the potential to impact daily lives (i.e., in the event of a malfunctioning digital operating system for a wastewater utility), cyber safety is a particularly critical digital literacy competency.
Digital Literacy Sectoral Briefer: Environment, Energy, and Infrastructure (EEI)
Date published: Aug. 21, 2023