Development of the Media and Information Literacy Indicators

2003

• World Summit on the Information Society, Geneva, Action Plan
• The Prague Declaration - "Towards an Information Literate Society"
  20-23 September 2003, Prague, Czech Republic

2005

• World Summit on the Information Society, Tunis, Commitment
• Alexandria Proclamation on Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning 
  6-9 November 2005, Alexandria, Egypt

2008

• Information for All (IFAP) mid-term strategy 2008-2013, Information Literacy as one of the major priorities
• Towards Information Literacy Indicators
  Paper of conceptual framework for measuring information literacy
  Prepared by Ralph Catts and Jesus Lau (2008). Paris. UNESCO

2009

• First Information Literacy expert group meeting, November 2010, Montreal (Canada)

2010

• Joint approach for the development Media Literacy and Information Literacy Indicators
• UNESCO Information Literacy Indicators: Validation Report
  Prepared by Ralph Catts, University of Stirling, United Kingdom
  Paris: UNESCO, 2010.
• First Information and Media Literacy expert group meeting
  4-6 November 2010, Bangkok (Thailand)

2011

• Background paper "Towards Media and Information Literacy Indicators"
  Prepared by UNESCO and Susan Moeller, Ammu Joseph, Jesus Lau and Toni Carbo
• International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Annual Conference, 14 July 2011, Istanbul, Turkey
  Joint UNESCO and IAMCR workshop on development of "Media and Information Literacy Indicators"
  Presentation of the draft Theoretical and Conceptual Framework for MIL indicators and Methodology of the MIL indicators
• Prep-conference, World Library and Information Congress, 77th International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) General Conference and Assembly,  UNESCO and IFLA joint Satellite Meeting,  11 August 2011, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  Presentation of the draft Theoretical and Conceptual Framework for MIL indicators and Methodology of the MIL indicators
• Theoretical and Conceptual Framework for MIL indicators and Methodology of the MIL indicators (September/October 2011)

2012

• Development and testing phase of the MIL indicators at country level

2013

• Validation and endorsement of the MIL indicators