The Alexandria Proclamation of 2005 describes information literacy and lifelong learning as the "beacons of the Information Society, illuminating the courses to development, prosperity and freedom. Information literacy empowers people in all walks of life to seek, evaluate, use and create information effectively to achieve their personal, social, occupational and educational goals. It is a basic human right in a digital world and promotes social inclusion in all nations."

Information literacy enables people to interpret and make informed judgments as users of information sources, as well as to become producers of information in their own right. Information literate people are able to access information about their health, their environment, their education and work, empowering them to make critical decisions about their lives, e.g. in taking more responsibility for their own health and education.

In a digital world, information literacy requires users to have the skills to use information and communication technologies and their applications to access and create information. For example, the ability to navigate in cyberspace and negotiate hypertext multimedia documents requires both the technical skills to use the Internet as well as the literacy skills to interpret the information.

07-11-2008 (New Delhi) 

Training-the-Trainers Workshop in Information Literacy for South and Central Asia inaugurated in India

03-11-2008 (Seville) 

The eighth UNESCO Training-the-Trainers workshop in Information Literacy concluded in Seville, Spain

24-10-2008 (Wuhan) 

Training-the-Trainers in Information Literacy: UNESCO continues its series of workshops

16-06-2008 (Kingston) 

Developing information literacy skills and programmes

13-06-2008 (Paris) 

International Expert Group to develop teacher training curricula for media and information literacy