Comparison of Individuals' Computer Skills with Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methods: Turkey-European Countries

Great changes have occurred in today's society in the last 50 years. Information has become the
most important resource. With the spread of individual computer ownership since the 1990s, the transformation
into an information society has accelerated. With the development of multimedia tools, especially with the
creation of the internet infrastructure, not only difficulties have arisen in accessing information, but also
conditions suitable for the production of new information have been provided. These developments accelerated
the economic and social developments of societies. In this context, computer skill levels, which should be in
qualified manpower, have also been a subject of interest in the academic field. In this study, multi-criteria
decision-making methods and individual computer skill levels of Turkey and European countries are discussed.
The data set used in the study was obtained from the individual computer skills level research on the European
Statistical Office website. The criteria in the data set are weighted by the Entropy method. Comparison of
individual computer usage levels by countries was carried out with the ARAS method. Considering the
limitations of the research and the findings obtained by the Aras method, it can be said that Iceland, Finland and
the Netherlands, which were found to be the most successful in the ranking of individual computer skills, were
followed by other countries.