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Sort of ironic that "you didn't get the message" on information literacy with my previous post. - SLC ------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: Steven Clift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Information Literacy for Active and Effective Citizenship - Research Request Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 15:29:20 -0600 One general starting point on information literacy in general is <http://www.fiu.edu/~library/ili/iliweb.html>. Also try starting here: http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Issues/Education/ Literacy/Information_Literacy/ (put on one line). In my e-government days I recall this concept being referred to by my librarian friends, but I am not aware of cross-over application into citizenship or e-government/e-democracy efforts. Are you? Read on below. Pleased reply by 15 February 2002 to Ana Ramalho Correia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Steven Clift Democracies Online Submitted to DO-WIRE by Ana Ramalho Correia <http://www.isegi.unl.pt/ensino/docentes/acorreia/en.htm>: I am preparing a paper on "Information Literacy for Active and Effective Citizenship" for an "International Conference on Information Literacy", promoted by UNESCO/NCLIS/National Forum on Information Literacy, due to take place next April. I am considering "Information Literacy" as the basic set of skills required by everyone to take their rightful place in society, not the more advanced skills that are expected of information and library professionals, for instance. In this context, I am looking for the following information, to complement what I have, so far: - Papers where the connection between information literacy and active citizenship is addressed (to enable me to ground the context of my paper); - Recent initiatives, anywhere in the world, (at national or multinational level) which aim to increase information literacy for citizenship. (I can do no better than refer to the questions circulated through "Quicklinks" today and posed by "The Group of Specialists on on-line services and democracy", for a hearing to take place in the Council of Europe Strasbourg, 25 March 2002; where necessary, I have adapted the questions to suit the "information literacy for citizenship" aspect): i) Who is conducting the initiatives - public authorities, NGOs? ii) What are the goals of the initiatives? iii) What skills and competences are addressed (recognise the information need; identify ways of addressing the gap; construct strategies for searching; locating and accessing information; comparing and evaluating; etc…) iv) Who do the initiatives target (children (age?), elderly, workers; unemployed; disadvantaged groups; librarians; community workers, etc.)? v) How is the target group reached? Through school curricula, the media, vocational training, peer-to-peer work, training intermediaries, which?) vi) What were the original considerations to take these initiatives in this particular manner (with this particular group and this goal)? vii) What are the main obstacles in implementing the initiatives (financial, conceptual, political, …)? viii) How is success, in implementing the initiative, to be measured? ix) What is the role of international cooperation, with regard to improving information literacy for citizenship? ------- End of forwarded message ------- ^ ^ ^ ^ Steven L. Clift - W: http://www.publicus.net Minneapolis - - - E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota - - - - - T: +1.612.822.8667 USA - - - - - - - ICQ: 13789183 *** Please send submissions to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** To subscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** Message body: SUB DO-WIRE *** *** To unsubscribe instead, write: UNSUB DO-WIRE *** *** Please forward this post to others and encourage *** *** them to subscribe to the free DO-WIRE service. ***
