UNESCO?s action to provide people with the skills and abilities for critical reception, assessment and use of information in their professional and personal lives. UNESCO?s main strategy in the area of Information Literacy consists of awareness-raising about the importance of information literacy at all levels of the education process ? basic education, primary and secondary education, technical and vocational training and lifelong education ? and of establishing guidelines for integrating information literacy issues in curricula.

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The "UNESCO Charter on the Preservation of the Digital Heritage" that was adopted by UNESCO's General Conference at its 32nd session (30 September ? 17 October 2003), provides a policy framework to take up the challnge that more and more of the world's cultural and educational resources are being produced, distributed and accessed in digital form rather than on paper. Born-digital heritage available on-line, including electronic journals, World Wide Web pages or on-line databases, is now part of the world?s cultural heritage. However, digital information is subject to technical obsolescence and physical decay.

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