Lau, Jesús Information Competencies: Bridging the North-South Knowledge Gap (Mortenson Distinguished Lecture)., 2003 UNSPECIFIED. [Other]
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Knowledge is readily available in middle-income developing countries through international information repositories on the Internet. However, most citizens from the Southern Hemisphere do not possess the information skills or information competencies to access, use and understand such knowledge wealth. Most economically evolving developing countries have made progress in education in recent decades, but they still lag behind in information use/generation, such as book and serials production. Their educational systems seem to inhibit the development of information skills, i.e., competencies that are crucial to citizens to benefit from increasing knowledge growth or to cope with ever-present technological innovations and the changing complexities of the world economy. The development of information competencies in Southern countries is critical to reduce North-South gaps, where knowledge inequality is probably the most important among them. In this paper, information development indicators are utilized to illustrate the current knowledge status of countries and the significant role that constructivist educational systems play in the development of information competencies.
| Item type: | Other |
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| Keywords: | Information literacy, Knowledge, Development, North-South |
| Subjects: | B. Information use and sociology of information C. Users, literacy and reading. |
| Depositing user: | Jesus Lau |
| Date deposited: | 10 Aug 2013 20:58 |
| Last modified: | 02 Oct 2014 12:26 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10760/19639 |
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