IICIIS international – Institute for Information Competence and Information Infrastructure

IKIS

IKIS – Gesellschaft für Informationskompetenz und Informationsinfrastruktur || Society for Information Competence and Information Infrastructure

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IICIIS

IICIIS – Institute for Information Competence and Information Infrastructure

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Video: Cancer Cure?

9 July 20189 July 2018 Hermann Huemer

A deceptive cancer cure video went viral and reminded people to be skeptical.

Why Informationskompetenz is not equivalent to Information Literacy

8 July 20189 July 2018 Hermann Huemer

The German notion of Informationskompetenz (information competence) expresses the ability to use and create information as the educational goal of information literacy instruction (Vermittlung). The English “Information literacy” emphasises the conceptual understandings of information use and information creation as a standardized state.

Spreading true and false news online

30 April 2018 Hermann Huemer

False news was more novel than true news, which suggests that people were more likely to share novel information.

Mission

We promote the competent handling of information, documents and media (from search to archiving), as well as information infrastructure facilities.

Steve Patriarca

I want to focus on how information can become knowledge and what skills are involved in that process.

Hermann Huemer

I care about the quality of the information we consume or produce every day as others care about quality of food, environment or life.

Historical Context

IICIIS pursue a similar vision as FID and NFIL. However, instead of documenting the knowledge of the world centrally, we are promoting a modern information infrastructure that provides knowledge in high-quality information products, as well as individual information competence to ensure that the information infrastructure and its products and services can be used efficiently. The widespread societal integration of information literacy will continue to be an ongoing challenge in efforts to level the playing field for the development of the responsible digital citizen.

What is information literacy?

This question must remain open for the time being. Instead of adding another definition to the many, we would like to encourage a range of approaches to this question by collecting different definitions for comparison (see also our News Section). In this endeavour we depend on your support! To enable the discussion of a subject, we must reach consensus about the terms in use. With daily life affairs, this consensus…