3 definitions by MsSage
The "digital literacy corps" is an initiative to increase digital inclusion, reduce the digital divide, and to increase broadband adoption via the use of teams of volunteers to work with population groups that have lower broadband adoption rates, teaching them "digital literacy."
In 2003, Net Literacy's team of student volunteers created a digital literacy corps that helped teach senior citizens, the disabled, and families with lower incomes, among others, how to use a computer and the Internet and identify their own personal broadband value propositon to help increase broadband adoption rates.
by MsSage December 6, 2009
A society's responsibility that all of its citizens are digital literate in the context that digital literacy is required 21st Century skill and society is responsible for the fair, just, and equitable treatments of its citizens. An extension of H. George Fredrickson's theory of social equity (that those in public administration are making the mistake that citizen A is the same as citizen B; ignoring social and economic conditions) but applied to digital literacy. Digital social equity ensures that a sufficient commitment of digital literacy resources be distributed to groups that experience discrimination and social inequity so that all members of society are digitally literate and able to use and access the Internet as an integral component of their lives.
The U.S. National Broadband Plan recognizes the importance of digital social equity through its recommendation of closing the digital divide and the goal that all Americans have access to broadband, be digitally literate, fully participate in a digital economy, and receive the benefits of broadband enabled information and services.
by MsSage November 29, 2010
AI literacy is having a basic understanding of what AI is, how it is impacting the world around you, and knowing how you can leverage it in your career or in your future. AI Literacy is a Net Literacy program and a website that helps parents and teachers show teens the what and how of AI literacy through the use of videos , games, articles and experiments.
AI literacy, just like ICT or net literacy, is changing our world and is necessary for all of us to have to be able to make discerning educational, career and life decisions.
by MsSage February 8, 2021