When is literacy week 2011

Media and Information Literacy MIL provides answers to the questions that we all ask ourselves at some point. How can we access, search, critically assess, use and contribute content wisely, both online and offline? What are our rights online and offline? What are the ethical issues surrounding the access and use of information? How can we engage with media and ICTs to promote equality, intercultural and interreligious dialogue, peace, freedom of expression and access to information?

Through capacity-building resources, such as curricula development , policy guidelines and articulation, and assessment framework, UNESCO supports the development of MIL competencies among people. The world is shifting from analog to digital faster than ever before, further exposing us to the vast promise and peril of new technologies. While the digital era has brought society many incredible benefits, we also face many challenges such as growing digital divides, cyber threats, and human rights violations online.

This report lays out a roadmap in which all stakeholders play a role in advancing a safer, more equitable digital world, one which will lead to a brighter and more prosperous future for all. Each individual needs to be equipped with media and information literacy competencies to understand the stakes, and to contribute to and benefit from information and communication opportunities.

This conference invites contemporary research into cultural practices of popular music taking place online. This event explores how we can understand media, culture and society as a site of collapse and repair, and as a place for theoretical and empirical analysis within media, communication and cultural studies. Global Media and Information Literacy Week. Together they aim to ensure tangible advances in the role of media and information literacy to uphold the vision of information as a public good, as the world slowly begins to move towards a new post-COVID normal.

Dates: Monday 25 — Friday 31 October Rechercher par Tags. Representative Image: Shutterstock. The idea of this initiative stemmed from the need of every individual to be equipped with media and information literacy competency so that it can aid proper communication and availability of the right information and mitigate misinformation threats.

On one hand, though one part of the world has easy access to the internet, there is also another section wherein millions of people are devoid of it.