This post is a short description of the Digital Skills Observatory, the research project I am leading at Mozilla Foundation in partnership with Gates Foundation and Digital Divide Data. Learn more at mzl.la/dso.

All around the world, in Chicago or Nairobi, digital natives are discovering the web for the first time from a smartphone. In Kenya, for a low income population, it is likely to be a second or third hand smartphone, broken and slow, that is worth less than 100 USD. Definitely not your iPhone. … Digital Skills Observatory