NCBI and digital literacy: a case study

  • Authors:

  • Denise Leahy;Stuart Lawler

  • Affiliations:

  • Trinity College Dublin & National Council for the Blind of Ireland, Ireland;Trinity College Dublin & National Council for the Blind of Ireland, Ireland

  • Venue:
  • ICCHP'12 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The European Commissioner with responsibility for the Digital Agenda has declared that she wants to make "Every European Digital" [1] and it is accepted that knowledge of computing is necessary for everyone in the Information Society [2] The knowledge and skills which are needed are often called "digital literacy". The National Council for the Blind of Ireland (NCBI) has provided training in the use of computers for over 15 years and, in 2010, decided to take part in the European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) programme and become an authorised ECDL test centre. ECDL is a standard of digital literacy which is accepted in 146 countries and has been taken by over 12 million people. This paper is a case study of the implementation of the ECDL programme in NCBI.