Digital neighbourhood contexts in youth employment and competency frameworks
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digital neighbourhoods, youth employment readiness, competency development, zoning-based analysis, connectivity inequality, platform engagement patterns, community network densityАннотация
Digital connectivity is a sensitive indicator of socioeconomic change, and rapid assessment of neighbourhoodlevel
digital infrastructure is necessary to more comprehensively understand the impacts on youth employment
pathways and competency development outcomes. This study contributes novel insights about the relevance of digital
neighbourhoods for supporting inclusive employment ecosystems and provides a foundation for investigating competency
acquisition dynamics in the context of urban-rural digital transitions. A mixed-methods approach was used to investigate
relationships between common digital accessibility indices calculated from network density metrics and employmentreadiness
indices from corresponding youth population surveys in three dominant residential zoning types across three
major urban clusters at regional scale. Data sources were municipal digital infrastructure records, youth digital literacy
assessments, and employment statistics. The results suggest that neighbourhood digital density contributes strongly to
the response of employment opportunity indices and real-time connectivity data can act as a surrogate to track labour
market change associated with competency-based education development and degradation. Overall, we find that lowcost,
easy-to-use digital mapping tools can monitor youth employment readiness and changes related to community-level
digital condition and educational support activity in three dominant neighbourhood typologies.
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