Global Media and Information Literacy Week, 24 - 31 October 2020
Article published on 24-10-2020
Global Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Week, commemorated annually, is a major occasion for stakeholders to review and celebrate the progress achieved towards “MIL for All”.
UNESCO and the UNESCO-led Global Alliance for Partnerships on Media and Information Literacy (GAPMIL) are calling partners all over the world to promote Global MIL Week. Together with its Feature Events, Global MIL Week calls for local events around the world to promote MIL connections across disciplines and professions.
The theme for Global MIL Week 2020 highlights how we can look to addressing disinformation and divides by recognizing our shared interest in improving everyone’s competencies to engage with the opportunities and risks in today’s landscape of communication, technology, and information. In this way, MIL – along with Global Citizenship Education - can aid progress towards the SDGs by equipping citizens with the knowledge, skills, values, and practices to be engaged as critical-thinking citizens in societies. These competencies can empower citizens for involvement in media development, access to information and knowledge for all, and freedom of expression, which all have implications on how the war against disinformation can be won.
