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Empowerment of people through Media and Information Literacy (MIL) is an important prerequisite for fostering equitable access to information and knowledge and promoting free, independent and pluralistic media and information systems.
Unesco

Media and Information Literacy recognizes the primary role of information and media in our everyday lives. It lies at the core of freedom of expression and information – since it empowers citizens to understand the functions of media and other information providers, to critically evaluate their content, and to make informed decisions as users and producer of information and media content.
Unesco

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T. S. Eliot

The medium is the message.
Marshall McLuhan

Information is not knowledge.
Albert Einstein

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.
Peter Drucker

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
George Bernard Shaw

The two words ‘information’ and ‘communication’ are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.
Sydney J. Harris

The human brain is nothing more than a complicated and fascinating computer, but it’s a shame that it hasn’t yet managed to eradicate its worst virus! Stupidity!
Carl William Brown

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
John F. Kennedy

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov

It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.
Clay Shirky

Communication works for those who work at it.
Andrew V. Abela

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy, and mutual valuing.
Rollo May

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Benjamin Disraeli

Information is not knowledge.
Albert Einstein

Human language is the software that allows us to make the best use of that magnificent computer that is our brain.
Carl William Brown

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
Benjamin Franklin

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
Oscar Wilde

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
B.F. Skinner

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.
John Naisbitt

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
Robin Morgan

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
Bill Gates

The First Industrial Revolution used water and steam power to mechanize production. The Second used electric power to create mass production. The Third used electronics and information technology to automate production.
Klaus Schwab

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
Benjamin Franklin

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities – that’s training or instruction – but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.
Thomas Moore

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
Mark Twain

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winston Churchill

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
Ronald Reagan

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.
Jaron Lanier

Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.
Evgeny Morozov

If information wants to be free, then that’s true everywhere, not just in information technology.
Mitch Kapor

Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves.
Satya Nadella

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it, so it’s part of everyday life.
Bill Gates