Duguid, P. (2002) The Social Life of Legal Information: First Impressions First Monday, 7 (9)
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_9/duguid/index.html

Fahey, Nicole. (2000) Addressing Information Poverty: An Australian Experience.. (Paper presented at the International Conference "Rich and Poor - Social Indicators and Social Reporting"; Berlin, 13-14 October 2000) Australian Centre on Quality of Life, Deakin University.
Reports on a project which aims to improve information literacy and ICT skills, but points up the problems of evaluating impact.
http://acqol.deakin.edu.au/Conferences/paperFahey1.PDF

IFLA/FAIFE. (2002) IFLA Manifesto on the internet The Hague: IFLA. http://www.ifla.org/III/misc/im-e.htm
Also available in German French Spanish Russian

Kirk, J. (2000) Navigating the information society. In: 2000 IATUL Conference: Queensland University of Technology,Brisbane, Queensland, Australia: 3rd - 7th July, 2000: Virtual Libraries: Virtual Communities: Proceedings.
Discusses the information society, and towards the end talks about the need for information literacy in addressing "informational poverty". http://educate.lib.chalmers.se/IATUL/proceedcontents/qutpap/kirk_full.html

New Zealand. Department of Labour, Labour Market Policy Group. (2001) Closing the digital divide: summary of stakeholder discussions Wellington: Department of Labour.
This report includes a section which identifies the need for children to start learning information literacy at an early age, and proposes that 'Government could encourage more people to become “information literate”'.
http://www.lmpg.govt.nz/publications/stakeholder%20discussions%20final%20word97.pdf

Shimmon, Ross. (2001) From digital divide to digital opportuny Paris: UNESCO
The author is General Secretary of the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA).
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/points_of_views/shimmon.shtml

Information for social change is "an activist organisation that examines issues of censorship, freedom and ethics amongst library and information workers": this is a link to their online journal which covers issues such as globalisation and information.

There are many Government documents about egovernment and policy as regards information and communications technologies. This is just a small selection

Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (2002) Information vernetzen – Wissen aktivieren Berlin: BBF.
http://www.bmbf.de/pub/information_vernetzen-wissen_aktivieren.pdf

National Audit Office (2002) Government on the Web II. (HC 764) London: The Stationery Office. http://www.nao.gov.uk/publications/nao_reports/01-02/0102764.pdf
Is critical of Government websites, analysing them in depth, has some useful background material.

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UNESCO's Webworld http://www.unesco.org/webworld/index.shtml

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