Cambodia: Digital, Media, and Information Literacy (DMIL) Competency Framework

UNESCO reports on Cambodia's launch of its first competency framework on Digital, Media and Information Literacy (DMIL). The framework outlines 8 DMIL competency domains with a total of 114 competencies and 3 proficiency levels.
The competency domains are: Information and data literacy; digital devices and software operations; media literacy; communication and collaboration; digital content creation; security and safety; problem solving; lifelong learning.
The English version, a 30 page document which explains the origins, goals and elements in the framework, can be downloaded here https://go.gov.kh/#/fileviewer?url=mptc/dmil-english.pdf and the Khmer language version at https://go.gov.kh/mptc/dmil-khmer and there is a short video in Khmer here https://youtu.be/NLwuKAvvXM4?si=XKs2W0jJFDhOgC19

New articles: Information behaviour of farmers; Health Literacy; AI and information; Personal Information Management; Information & visual disability

The latest issue of IFLA Journal (Volume 48, No. 4, 2022) is published open access at https://repository.ifla.org/handle/123456789/2317 There are lots of interesting articles, covering library issues in many different countries, but picking out ones more relevant to this blog:
- An assessment of health information literacy among women in rural Lake Zone, Tanzania by Mohamed Kassim and Faraja Ndumbaro
- Knowledge mapping and visualization of personal information management literature, 1988–2020 by Williams Ezinwa Nwagwu and Chidiebube Blossom Williams
- A model of access to information among Nigerian rice farmers by Ugonna Benedette Fidelugwuowo
- Information needs and delivery channels: Experimental evidence from Cambodian smallholders by Selina Bruns, Oliver Mußhoff and Pascal Ströhlein
- Factors influencing the use of agricultural information by Vietnamese farmers by Hung Gia Hoang, Duc Van Nguyen and Douglas Drysdale
- Framework for the provision of information to the visually impaired in academic libraries in compliance with the Marrakesh Treaty by Samuel Macharia Were, Japhet N. Otike and Emily K. Bosire
Photo by Sheila Webber: lovely autumn beech tree, November 2022