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Higher education institutions typically sub-contract with commercial enterprises to produce a whole range of “deliverables,” many of which are relevant to our context
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Higher education institutions typically work hand-in-glove with scholarly societies and professional associations to put on colloquia and symposia
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Public and University libraries can often partner with Internet and Cyber Cafes to provide a more harmonious, “seamlessly integrated” set of information and communication services, and a more exciting place for young people to go to than would otherwise be the case if both types of facilities were located distantly from each other, and operated separately; sometimes even a coffee shop could be added to this mix
3. Summary and Conclusions: An Action Agenda. We have nine major recommendations for model strategies, action plans and monitoring mechanisms. But, as has been pointed out elsewhere in this text several times, each country and region must study, customize and adapt these recommendations to its own unique circumstances. Annex D contains a model of ministry policy statements that may also be useful in this context.
Recommendation 1: Prepare a Unified National Strategy and Vision for Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning To achieve its overall socio-economic development goals the appropriate national authorities should develop a National Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning Strategy and Vision (NS&V) for the country as a whole, and admonish all of their institutions, each sector and citizens to treat the area as a high national priority. Such a strategy and vision should be carefully inter-related to, and coordinated with existing ICT, Educational, Information Society, local development, and other closely related strategies that are already in place, or being planned. However, having stressed the need to carefully coordinate the IL strategy and vision with the other areas, at the same time it is very 41