On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:53 PM, Anjali Noronha <[email protected]> wrote: > The working definition of literacy in the Indian census since 1991 is as > follows:[58] > > Literacy rate: The total percentage of the population of an area at a > particular time aged seven years or above who can read and write with > understanding. Here the denominator is the population aged seven years or > more.
There are severe problems in using this at survey stage. The definitions are actually vague and need more work. Aspects of implementation should follow in an obvious way. > > The issue is not so much with definitions as with achieving literacy > according to this definition - even in IT literacy the idea is quite > comprehensive but the efforts don't match. what can we as civil society do > to increase this effort? To start with we should specify better and aim higher. For example, most Indians would be dinosaurs when it comes to sex education. These things should be part of IT literacy as school and college level syllabi are still written by dinosaurs :) Best A. Mani A. Mani CU, ASL, IRSS, AMS, CLC, CMS http://www.logicamani.in _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
