Janice has worked as teacher, university lecturer and consultant in Australia, France, Luxembourg and Belgium.

Author of two books and many articles on the development of e-literacy, she led the Council of Europe’s editorial teams to create to create and revise its Internet Literacy Handbook (2003, 2005, 2008). Janice has been coordinator of Insafe network since 2004.

Plenary session: What is information and media literacy? 

In two short decades, Internet has revolutionised the way we work, learn and play. eLiteracy skills are indispensable for anyone wishing to take advantage of the huge opportunities online technology offers whilst avoiding its pitfall, and a prerequisite for active participation in today’s democratic society. Indeed, the lack of basic information literacy skills is as much a factor of the so-called digital divide as the lack of technology. The session will look at the skills that make up the complex concept of eLiteracy, and how these are developed. It will build on the work done by Insafe’s “Media Literacy” thematic group and set the stage for the break out group to follow.