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Digital inclusion and information literacy education: a matter for ethics and citizenship

This paper tries to conceptualize digital inclusion. It results from an internal discussion in the Gepindi (Study Group on Information Policies and Digital Inclusion), which is linked to the Graduate Program of Information Science, at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. The paper discusses digital inclusion based on information science and correlate areas concepts. Its aim is to construct a knowledge landmark on the relationship between ethics, citizenship and information literacy education, as a basic pillar for social inclusion.

Digital inclusion; Information literacy; Information literacy education; Citizenship; Ethics


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