About the Alliance:
Upon a recommendation from the Prague Conference of Information Literacy Experts held September 20-23, 2003, the following organizations are committing to creating an International Alliance for Information Literacy. The evolving purpose for the Alliance is to facilitate the sharing of information and expertise on information literacy across regions and nations of the world. The ultimate goal of the Alliance is to facilitate people’s participating effectively in the Information Society, as part of the basic human right of life long learning. The Alliance will consist of organizations that act as nodes around the world. Member organizations will generally be regional or national organizations that are broadly based, including representation from the economic development, education, health, human services, librarianship, public policy, and information and communications technology sectors.


Founding Members:
The following founding members welcome new participants.

Australian and New Zealand Institute for Information Literacy (ANZIIL)
http://www.anziil.org/

European Network on Information Literacy (EnIL) (European Union)
http://www.ceris.to.cnr.it/Basili/EnIL/index.html

National Forum on Information Literacy (United States)
http://www.infolit.org/

NORDINFOlit (Scandinavia)
http://www.nordinfolit.org/


Members:
Information Society Today (Bangladesh)
http://www.infosciencetoday.org

Networking Alliance for Voluntary Actions (India)
http://www.navaindia.org/

Russian Reading Association, Pskov Department
http://www.infolit.org/members/rrapd.html

SCONUL Advisory Committee on Information Literacy (United Kingdom)
http://www.sconul.ac.uk/activities/inf_lit/


Additional Resources:
Further information on international activities can be found at UNESCO's information literacy Web site.
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=15886&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

 

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