Proposing “Mobile, Finance, and Information” Toolkit for Financial Inclusion of the Poor in Developing Countries

Since 2015, the Government of India has been designing policies for transforming the country with over 400 million unbanked adults into a cashless economy so that a majority of financial transactions can be carried over mobile devices, the most widely used information and communication technology in the country. However, over 200 million adults earning less than $2 a day have a low or little mobile, financial, or information literacy. This short paper reports a newly proposed interdisciplinary, six-step toolkit operationalized using a survey questionnaire, focus group prompts, and hands-on training for developing mobile, financial, and information literacy among the poor in developing countries like India. Implications for public libraries, governments, and the poor in developing countries and beyond are discussed at the end

The European Conference on Information Literacy: An International Research-Practice Nexus

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Information Literacy as a Right and a Duty: The Experience of the Czech Republic

The aim of this paper is to briefly review the strategic steps which have been taken in the area of education for information literacy (IL) in the Czech Republic - focusing mainly on the higher education level, but with additional references and applications to lower educational levels as well. The paper also aims to look a bit deeply into the broader, fundamental "right to literacy," in relation to human rights and public duties in general, and which are very often guaranteed by national constitutions, such as the right to education, the right to access (public) information, and the (public) duty to protect weaker parties in certain kinds of legal negotiations in countries such as the Czech Republic

Supporting the Process: Adapting Search Systems to Search Stages

Search engines have become indispensable tools for the information related tasks performed by a wide variety of searchers across the globe, and the information literacy of these search engine users varies widely. The more complex tasks performed using search engines, involving learning and construction, may consist of multiple stages, potentially affecting searchers’ feelings, thoughts and actions. However, despite recent advances in personalization and contextualization, current search engines do not necessarily support these stages. This conceptual paper discusses the potential impact of search stages on the desired functionality of search systems. First, it looks at process models in the context of information literacy, followed by the support of current search engines for the stages described in these models. Finally, the paper reconciles the information literacy and system perspectives by discussing novel stage-aware search systems

Secondary school teachers’ attitudes to information literacy: a study of a questionnaire validity

The objective of this paper is to determine the validity and reliability of an originally created questionnaire as an instrument to develop an understanding of secondary school teachers’ knowledge on information literacy and practices implemented with developing student’s information literacy skills in Hungary, Poland, and Lithuania. This research will support a research project that aims the harmonisation of various theories of information literacy with the proper application of information literacy to public (K12) education. This paper presents a pilot survey among Lithuanian teachers on a sample of 102 participants in the spring of 2018. We gathered data for this study using a computer-assisted web interviewing (CAWI) technique and administered an online survey using the 1KA.SI web survey tool. The collected data was analysed by IBM SPSS Statistics ver. 19. Internal consistency of the questionnaire measured by Cronbach’s alpha coefficient. Scale and construct validity evaluated using Principal components analysis with Varimax Rotation. The authors feel assured in using the questionnaire for the wider scope survey