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    Public Access to Government Information and Information Literacy Training as Basic Human Rights

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    Author
    Horton, Forest Woody
    Issue Date
    2002
    Submitted date
    2004-03-30
    Keywords
    Information Literacy
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    government information
    public access
    information literacy
    
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    Public Access to Government Information and Information Literacy Training as Basic Human Rights 2002,
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    Author Requests this citation be used when reproducing: Forest Woody Horton, "Public Access to Government Information and Information Literacy Training as Basic Human Rights," July 2002, White Paper prepared for UNESCO, the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, and the National Forum on Information Literacy, for use at the Information Literacy Meeting of Experts, Prague, The Czech Republic
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105882
    Abstract
    One of the key critical success factors for a stable democracy is an informed and empowered citizenry. A more formal way of saying this is to proclaim that public information is a strategic resource needed at all levels of society, by all people, and in all walks of life. This paper examines the philosophical concept of why public access to government information should be considered a basic human right, why minimal information literacy skills are necessary to exploit that strategic resource, and why the acquisition of those skills by all citizens should also be treated as a basic human right. The two ideas are essentially an ends and a means. In short, an end (public access to government information), however worthy, but without the means to realize it (information literacy skills) might as well be no end at all.
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