Empowerment of people through information and media literacy is an important prerequisite for fostering equitable access to information and knowledge, and building inclusive knowledge societies.

Information and media literacy enables people to interpret and make informed judgments as users of information and media, as well as to become skillful creators and producers of information and media messages in their own right.

UNESCO’s mission in this area consists of fostering information and media literate societies by encouraging the development of national information and media literacy policies, including in education.

A particular focus will be on training teachers to sensitize them to the importance of information and media literacy in the education process, enable them to integrate information and media literacy into their teaching and provide them with appropriate pedagogical methods and curricula.

An essential element of the strategy is the integration of libraries into the programmes as they provide an environment with resources and services for free and open learning and play a key role in people’s life-long learning.

20-07-2011 (Paris) 

University Network on Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue launched by UNESCO and UNAOC

05-07-2011 (Paris) 

UNESCO launched model Media and Information Literacy Curriculum for Teachers

01-07-2011 (Fez) 

Declaration on Media and Information Literacy adopted by Fez International Forum

15-06-2011 (Fez) 

UNESCO supports First International Forum on Media and Information Literacy

18-03-2011 (Windhoek) 

Training on user-generated content to improve media and information literacy of Namibian youth

08-03-2011 (Paris) 

UNESCO supports broadcasters to foster user-generated content, and media and information literacy

03-03-2011 (Windhoek) 

UNESCO supports survey on media and information literacy among teachers

25-02-2011 (Paris) 

UNESCO launches Women Make the News 2011

22-02-2011 (Windhoek) 

Improving access to information by Okanguati community in Namibia

23-11-2010 (Pretoria) 

UNESCO and University of Pretoria collaborate to improve information literacy of teachers

22-11-2010 (Manila) 

UNESCO supports 5th APIN Meeting and ICT Literacy Workshop

12-11-2010 (Paris) 

UNESCO convened expert meeting on media and information literacy indicators

05-11-2010 (Quito) 

A series of workshops on ICT literacy for community radios concluded in Latin America

04-10-2010 (Windhoek) 

Empowering rural communities in Namibia through ICT

07-06-2010 (Zithobeni) 

UNESCO-supported training on information literacy for rural teachers from South Africa

18-05-2010 (Rabat) 

Conference in Morocco marked World Information Society Day

26-03-2010 (Windhoek) 

Increasing awareness about women's rights through multipurpose access centres

18-12-2009 (Colombo) 

Teacher trainers from South Asia discussed media and information literacy

09-12-2009 (Paris) 

UNESCO-supported Yearbook on youth, media and social change just published

25-11-2009 (London) 

UNESCO and CBA launch new guidelines for broadcasters

06-11-2009 (Tokyo) 

Ethiopian children's TV wins again

30-10-2009 (Paris) 

Workshop in South Africa to assess media and information literacy in teacher education

15-09-2009 (Paris) 

IFAP Information Society Observatory successfully launched

11-09-2009 (Padua) 

IASL Conference focuses on role of school libraries in preparing pupils for the future

24-06-2009 (Pretoria) 

Community development project gets off the ground in South Africa

19-06-2009 (New York) 

Everyone must help eliminate cyber hatred, says UN Secretary-General

17-04-2009 (Moscow) 

UNESCO supports Media Literacy at School project in Russia

05-03-2009 (Kingston) 

Caribbean information literacy programmes discussed at international conference

09-02-2009 (New Delhi) 

UNESCO-supported international conference on knowledge networking concluded in India

01-08-2008 (Bangkok) 

UNESCO Bangkok releases new publication on ICT literacy in the Asia-Pacific

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