Increasing Learning Opportunities through Digital Empowerment

Nowadays, digital technology has generated a new dimension to information as it is being turn out to be a prime commodity. In addition, connections of networks have attributed to the fast communication with a ‘real time’ feeling among people across the world. Due to the rapid development and distribution of digital media over the last two decades, access to this media has become crucial to being an active player in our contemporary society. If the gap is to be reduced then accessibility of the ICTs must be there because it is Digital access which divides the society not the Digital technology as technology integrates the society. If anything is not standardized and only applied then result will be questionable. So we are in the process of research with the objective of developing a scale on Digital empowerment. In the present investigation Digital empowerment is operationally defined as “a process through which an individual is making fit to the digital technology and harvesting the maximum potentials of the technology with reference to Psychological, Economical, Legal, and Technical access". Thus, a scale based on summated rating (likert technique) on Digital empowerment will be developed by taking into consideration of these components by following the steps mentioned below: