Digital world

The phrase digital world is most commonly used in when defining citizenship, digital fluency, and digital literacy.

The digital world is the availability and use of digital tools to communicate on the Internet, digital devices, smart devices and other technologies.

The phrase digital world was being used in electrical engineering studies before the creation of the World Wide Web.

Originally it was used to describe the prevalence of digital electronic devices as opposed to analogue electronic devices. Articles relating to education in the digital world became more common in the 1990s.