In the new technological landscape, there is a need for generic, core or fundamental skills, such as literacy, numeracy and basb academic skills, together with basic financial and entrepreneurial skills and, increasingly, basic digital and even coding skills. Indeed, the predominance of digital technologies in the Fourth Industrial Revolutbn makes mastering digital skills ever more relevant (see UNCTAD, 2017a). Access to the Internet is also an important influence, providing an enabling environment for innovatbn (see box 2.1).