Digital Literacy Should Be Pursued the Way Universal Literacy Once Was
By Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng
October 2020 EDITORIAL
AT ITS MOST basic level, literacy is about the ability to read and write. But reading and writing is a goal to an end. It was to get us educated. Literacy leads us into a world of endless knowledge – and communication. Literacy as a measure of access to knowledge and as an ability to navigate social life, is clearly not an easy thing to determine, let alone gauge. Beyond a certain point and a certain age, how we take...
Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng
is the Executive Director of Penang Institute. His latest book is Signals in the Noise: Notes on Penang, Malaysia and the World (Singapore: Faction Press) Homepage: wikibeng.com.
