Comparison of Individuals' Computer Skills with Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methods: Turkey-European Countries

Abstract

Great changes have occurred in today's society in the last 50 years. Information has become the most important resource. With the spread of individual computer ownership since the 1990s, the transformation into an information society has accelerated. With the development of multimedia tools, especially with the creation of the internet infrastructure, not only difficulties have arisen in accessing information, but also conditions suitable for the production of new information have been provided. These developments accelerated the economic and social developments of societies. In this context, computer skill levels, which should be in qualified manpower, have also been a subject of interest in the academic field. In this study, multi-criteria decision-making methods and individual computer skill levels of Turkey and European countries are discussed. The data set used in the study was obtained from the individual computer skills level research on the European Statistical Office website. The criteria in the data set are weighted by the Entropy method. Comparison of individual computer usage levels by countries was carried out with the ARAS method. Considering the limitations of the research and the findings obtained by the Aras method, it can be said that Iceland, Finland and the Netherlands, which were found to be the most successful in the ranking of individual computer skills, were followed by other countries.