In an increasingly digital world, digital well-being emerges as a crucial aspect of our interactions through digital tools. Recognized as one of the 21 key competencies in DigComp, DigComp 2.2 sheds light on digital well-being across its five dimensions. Emphasizing that well-being should permeate all digital interactions, ALL DIGITAL, with contributions from our member organizations Maks vzw (Belgium), CARDET (Cyprus), and Punt TIC Catalunya (Spain), has compiled an analysis paper illuminating selected facets of this broad and encompassing subject.
The themes are chosen, “What does DigComp understand under digital well-being”, “digital well-being at the workplace”, “Well-being for educators”, and “Intergenerational digital competence gaps as a risk factor in safeguarding well-being”, are meant to be the basis for further dialogue and development on the topic.
A key point we raise in the paper is the awareness of digital technologies not being inherently positive or negative for users’ well-being, but that it is their adequate and responsible implementation and application that determines the impact on health and well-being. We also call for moving away from a view of the offline and online world as separate entities and to increasingly approach them as intertwined and merged spheres that are to be understood as extensions of each other.
