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Both are similar, but with distinctions. If you are computer literate, it means you know all the terminology related to computers and what it means. If you are competent with computers, it means you know what you are doing. So competence would be a little deeper understanding.
A literate person cannot be expected to know how to operate a computer. In essence, a person can be literate but not computer literate. But the opposite seems difficult to be true. A computer literate is often always a literate.
Literacy means you can use a computer to a basic degree. Competency means you are highly experienced and capable of using a wide range of applications, performing various tasks, and are able to learn or 'guess' how to utilize new applications based on common experience with similar. IE, how Microsoft Word is very similar to OpenOffice's Writer.
They would be considered as being computer literate.
computer literate
You can be either "computer literate", meaning you are knowledgeable about computers or you can be "computer illiterate", meaning you have no knowledge of computers.
technology literate means you are good with technology.
When a person is literate, that means they have the ability to read and write effectively in a language. Literacy skills enable individuals to comprehend and communicate through written texts, which is essential for most daily activities and accessing information.
Information system literacy is networks, or IT. Those in IT are always computer literate. Not everybody who is computer literate is information system literate.
In short, computer competency means you know what you are doing. It means you have at least basic computing skills. It means you are comfortable using a computer and understand an overview of how they work.
Being Computer literate doesn't mean you have to know enough to program a computer or build one yourself.
A person that is generally very good at working with computers.