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October 30, 2003
Info literacy and the digital divide
The SIGIA and lists had some interesting pointers today for folks interested in the issues of information literacy and the digital divide. On the info literacy side, there's this executive summary of Adult Literacy in America (for free) and this slightly older, and international piece on Literacy in the Information Age (for a fee). The first took an interesting approach in their study, surveying 26,000 adults in order to get a richer picture of the literacy issue rather than simply estimating the number of "illiterates." The aim of this survey is to profile the English literacy of adults in the United States based on their performance across a wide array of tasks that reflect the types of materials and demands they encounter in their daily lives. On the digital divide side, there's this CNET article that describes this report: Charting and Bridging Digital Divides (PDF): Lack of access to the Internet and related digital technologies is a problem not only in emerging markets but also in advanced countries, a comparative study of eight markets has shown. This study also touches on the issue of non-use by people who actually have Internet access (something the Pew Internet Project has also reported).
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