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ECIL 2013: Worldwide Commonalities and Challenges in Information Literacy Research and Practice pp 79–85Cite as

Information Literacy, a Cornerstone of Democratic Society: A Component of an Information Policy

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Among the many declarations about the use of information made between 1997 and 2012, the Havana Declaratory (15th action) concluded that “Multi-literacy has to be promoted as collaborative work between different agencies”. A national information policy is a cardinal point in accomplishing this proposal in order to have programs that can achieve short-, mid- or long-term goals. This paper will discuss three components of multi-literacy; computer literacy; information literacy; and the political literacy needed for these processes to reach an informed citizenship as a step in the construction of a democratic society.

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  1. National Autonomous University of Mexico (IIBI-UNAM), Mexico

    Egbert J. Sánchez Vanderkast

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  1. Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

    Serap Kurbanoğlu

  2. University of California Los Angeles, USA

    Esther Grassian  & Diane Mizrachi  & 

  3. University of Stirling, UK

    Ralph Catts

  4. University of Zagreb, Croatia

    Sonja Špiranec

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Sánchez Vanderkast, E.J. (2013). Information Literacy, a Cornerstone of Democratic Society: A Component of an Information Policy. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., Grassian, E., Mizrachi, D., Catts, R., Špiranec, S. (eds) Worldwide Commonalities and Challenges in Information Literacy Research and Practice. ECIL 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 397. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03919-0_9

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