[governance] What about promoting media and information POLICY literacy? Suggestion: "ICT+M policy literacy"

Tue Apr 29 11:20:05 EDT 2014

Thanks Becky for this heads up.
It sounds interest for exploit.
I am interested in even exploring your course outline too.
regards

On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Becky Lentz, Dr. <becky.lentz at mcgill.ca>wrote:

>  This is a fantastic discussion thread and long overdue. However, I'd
> like to propose considering singling out the 'policy' dimension in the
> evolution of this conversation, i.e., being more explicit that what we're
> talking about is literacy 'about' the policymaking and policy advocacy
> aspects of this field.
>
>  With some very important exceptions, media education and media literacy
> conversations, traditionally, seem to have been captured by a protectionist
> and/or a skills agenda...how to 'use' media and technology more
> skillfully, carefully, etc. In the five years I've been teaching 'media
> governance' at an international university, I'm still amazed at students
> from development studies, political science, sociology, and other
> disciplines who say that they never heard about 'this' policy studiesarea,
> until taking my courses. After exposure, they're keen to get involved,
> but what's the 'path' for this? Some started a campus-based chapter of
> openmedia.ca as one step while still in university. Others have gone on
> to intern and so on, but again, few of the NGOs in this field have outreach
> programs that allow academics to facilitate linking their students with
> experiential opportunities to learn more. Diplo does some of this, as we
> know, but it's aimed primarily at diplomats, not university students keen
> to get involved in the future of the internet as they are eager to imagine
> it. At the same time, many NGOs have considerable human resource needs that
> continue to go unfunded. There is a way to work on this, if we make it an
> area 'to be worked on.'
>
>  By comparison, the environmental protection, public health, and human
> rights policy fields enjoy much more infrastructure for educating about the
> policy dimensions of their sectors...so, environmental literacy might
> mean becoming more aware of the environment, but there's also an
> educational and professional path (even degree programs, certificates,
> etc.) to pursue if one is interested in becoming part of that field as a
> career path. And as we know, "human rights education" (HRE) is a
> mini-industry of its own with sustainable funding from the UN to advance
> its goals, agendas, etc. Many groups incorporate policy literacy in their
> work, so why not make more explicit partnerships between academia (where
> the younger folks someone mentioned already 'are') with NGOs doing policy
> work so that we can cultivate a stronger 'pipeline/feeder system/pathway'
> TO media policy advocacy in the public interest?
>
>  I guess what I'm suggesting is that we consider talking about
> 'information, communication, technology, *and* media (ICT+M) *policy*
> literacy' to begin to try to address the capacity building challenges
> inherent in ICT+M policy change, more broadly. What about a new IGF dynamic
> coalition around 'capacity building', that includes ICT+M policy literacy?
> That said, what parts of existing dynamic coalitions are already explicitly
> dealing with capacity building programs, issues, agendas? Might there be a
> way to connect that work horizontally across DN's?
>
>  Becky Lentz
> McGill University
>
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