UNESCO has just published the declaration on media and information literacy adopted by an internation forum that recently met in Fez. After the profile given to new media during the ‘Arab Spring’, it’s unsurprising that there is a coordinated effort by such organisations as UNESCO to frame media in information literacy. Like all declaration though, the proof will be in the pudding: can a declaration ever be more than rhetoric? We’ll see. However the endorsement makes hopeful reading: The participants of the Forum

fully endorse the far-reaching vision that today’s digital age and convergence of communication technologies necessitate the combination of media literacy and information literacy in order to achieve sustainable human development, build participatory civic societies, and contribute to the consolidation of sustainable world peace, freedom, democracy, good governance and the fostering of constructive intercultural knowledge, dialogue and mutual understanding.

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