Digital inclusion through enhanced digital skills Digital skills are a key barrier to mobile internet adoption and use in LMICs and there is a need to gain greater understanding of the issue and knowledge on how to tackle it.
The project is addressing the significant gender gap in mobile phone ownership and usage in low-and middle-income countries and is working to understand better the gendered digital divide and provide tools to address it.

The purpose of this project will be to:
•	Through research, measure digital skills in LMICs as well as deepen understanding of the digital skills needed by citizens and how to address them
•	Develop new and/or updated digital skills training content to meet some of the needs identified, that would be made available to all stakeholders as an openly licensed digital public good . 

The specific deliverables will be the publication and dissemination of:
•	A report on the findings from the research
•	New digital skills training content

The GSMA will work with mobile operators on this project. Beneficiaries will include citizens who will receive the training as well as other stakeholders working on digital skills or mobile product and/or service delivery globally but in low- and middle-income markets in particular (e.g. governments, NGOs, donors, international organizations and other private sector actors).