Information Literacy for the Knowledge-Based Society Thailand

Abstract

This paper addresses the concept of Information Literacy in the context of theevolving Thai society according to the government's development plan "Knowledge-BasedSociety Thailand 2001-2010" (KBS). We work out the Information Literacy concept in atwofold way: the first is what we call the "passive information literate", who is able to gather,use, and evaluate information according to a given problem; the other is the "activeinformation literate", who transforms information into something new and makes itaccessible to others by disseminating information and sharing knowledge. The latter is seenas a prerequisite for the KBS program. We derive some consequences of lifelong andindependent learning on the teaching processes and present issues for further study.Keywords: information literacy, knowledge-based society, Thailand

Keywords: information literacy, knowledge-based society, Thailand