La alfabetización informacional dentro de las políticas nacionales sobre tecnologías de la información y comunicación (TICs): la cultura de la información, una dimensión ausente
| Main Author: | Menou, Michel J. |
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| Format: | Journal PeerReviewed application/pdf |
| Bahasa: | es |
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Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad de Murcia (Spain)
, 2004
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http://eprints.rclis.org/5819/1/ad0716.pdf http://eprints.rclis.org/5819/ |
Daftar Isi:
- Most national and international development policies have now made ample room for the application of ICT and transition toward the information society. Within each country as well as among them, inequalities in access and use (usually referred to as “digital divide”) are seen as a major threat. In addition to securing “universal access," information literacy is a major component of these efforts. A number of examples mostly drawn from Latin America illustrate the patterns in addressing information literacy issues. The emphasis upon use of computers and more generally the quite narrow perspective of these programs makes them look far more an exercise for “retooling” the workforce than empowering citizens. It is advocated that the potential of the Information Age cannot be realised without expanding the scope of information and computer literacy far beyond their usual, functional aspects. What is at stake is the formation of an information culture, which itself involves the adaptation of pre-existing cultures. In other words a cultural revolution assumed by the actors rather than a cultural involution pushed by the global media. In conclusion a few requirements for such a new course are outlined. White Paper prepared for UNESCO, the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, and the National Forum on Information Literacy, for use at the Information Literacy Meeting of Experts, Prague, The Czech Republic. Disponible en: http://www.nclis.gov/libinter/infolitconf&meet/papers/menou-fullpaper.pdf. Translated by Cristóbal Pasadas Ureña.