Lau, Jesús . The Impact of Information Competencies on Socio-Economic Development in Southern Hemisphere Economies., 2006 In: Digital Literacies for Learning. Facet. [Book chapter]
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This paper discusses the North-South knowledge gap and its relationship to socio-economic and information development, education, and information literacy. Information development–the information progress of a country-is analyzed using indicators of production, storage, and demand of recorded information/knowledge. Most concepts are discussed from the point of view of developing countries, nations that basically fall within the Southern Hemisphere. The term developing economies is used to group middle-, low-, and lowest-income nations that share general characteristics but also have several differences even within their own regions/states. The analysis is simplistic and does not attempt to give a full conceptual scientific explanation of North-South knowledge gaps. The term literacy is used to denote the various competencies that citizens are required to master at a basic level. The most familiar meaning of literacy is the one related to basic reading and writing. However, literacy has become a common word to denote elementary skills that are needed by most, if not all, members of society, such as information literacy.
| Item type: | Book chapter |
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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: | 09 Aug 2013 07:32 |
| Last modified: | 02 Oct 2014 12:26 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10760/19640 |
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