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USAID defines digital literacy as the ability to access, manage, understand, integrate, communicate, evaluate, and create information safely and appropriately through digital devices and networked technologies for participation in economic, social, and political life.

Source: USAID DL primer

 

Digital literacy is the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, understand, evaluate, create, and communicate digital information, an ability that requires both cognitive and technical skills. (Also used in 'Media and Information literacy: Policy and strategy guidelines', UNESCO 2013)
Source: ALA 2013, USA

 

Digital literacy consists of equipping people with ICT concepts, methods and skills to enable them to use and exploit ICTs. The related concept of information literacy consists of providing people with concepts and training in order to process data and transform them into information, knowledge and decisions. It includes methods to search and evaluate information, elements of information culture and its ethical aspects, as well as methodological and ethical aspects for communication in the digital world.
Source: ITU 2010, Global

Source: https://unevoc.unesco.org/home/TVETipedia+Glossary/filt=all/id=639

 

From UNESCO Global Digital Literacy Framework:

 

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