Saudi Arabia aims to become a regional leader in an information society and the field of Information and Communications Technology (ICT).
Information Literacy is a prerequisite for participating effectively in an Information Society.
The creation of an Information Society is key to social, cultural, and economic development of nations and communities, institutions and individuals in the 21st century and beyond.
The 10 targets in the WSIS Plan of Action for improving access and connectivity to ICTs by 2015, which were endorsed by 175 Member States, were all rated as very important to achieving an information society that would benefit all of humanity.
Participants issued "The Prague Declaration: Toward an Information Literate Society" (attached).
As any anthropologist can tell you, introducing a new threat into an information-starved society inevitably results in the adoption of new superstitions as frightened individuals grasp at anything that might offer protection.
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An agency for the information society may be created, to keep Sweden virtually happy.
They agreed that an information literacy citizenry is required to mobilize an effective civil society and create a competitive workforce.
But now we live in an informed and networked society where we all have access to more or less the same information and where we all have a comparable education.
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In an email to the AP, Amnesty noted the difficulty of accessing independent information in a tightly guarded society such as Cuba.
The John Ivinson Memorial Prize is named in honour of the late John Ivinson who was an active member of the UK National Commission for UNESCO Communication and Information Committee and past president of the British Computing Society.
This is the reason why Information Literacy is so important, because, without it, the Information Society will never be able to rise to its ll potential and will remain, instead, only an unrealized dream.
On 3 December, the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, UNESCO is organizing an event to present its actions in ensuring access to quality education, information and knowledge as well as showing how civil society can advance the rights of people with disabilities.
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