Deadline February 28, 2010

The Journal is an official publication of the Information Resources Management Association
www.igi-global.com/ijdldc
Editor-in-Chief: Antonio Cartelli, University of Cassino, Italy
Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)

MISSION OF IJDLDC
Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible publication in the special issue of the International Journal of Digital Literacy and Digital Competence. The primary objective of IJDLDC is to provide a platform for experts, scholars and all stakeholders involved in digital literacy, digital competence and the use of ICT in education to share theories, studies, experiences, projects, instruments, and applications. To hit the above target the journal will include contributions from engineers, researchers, scientists, educators, practitioners and others who are experts in the creation of hardware-software instruments and in everyday education, training and school work. By means of this journal, the ideas concerning digital literacy and digital competence will penetrate the whole society and will create shared and commonly accepted educational paradigms to be used in education by means of a practice-theory-practice paradigmatic approach to education.

RECOMMENDED TOPICS
Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Frameworks for digital literacy and digital competence analysis
- Definitions/features for digital literacy and digital competence
- Digital Competence Assessment
- Digital Divide and Digital Literacy
- Digital Literacy and Digital Competence interaction with:
    o Psycho-pedagogical paradigms
    o School Curricula
    o Construction of learning environments
    o Teacher profession/updating
    o Computer Science Education
    o Web Technologies
    o Information Systems
    o Ubiquitous Computing
    o Virtual Learning Environments
    o New Teaching Paradigms
    o Social Networking
    o Social-Technical approach to MIS use
    o Communities of practice
    o Learning Organizations
    o Knowledge Management
- Digital Literacy, Digital Competence and Knowledge Society with a special attention to
    o The Net Generation
    o Multicultural Society
    o E- Citizenship
    o E-government
    o Lifelong Learning
    o Personal Learning Environments
    o Personal Knowledge Management
- Digital Literacy, Digital Competence and Diversely Able People
- National and International Policies for Digital Literacy
- National and International Initiatives for Digital Literacy
- Digital Literacy in Developing Countries

SUBMITTING TO IJDLDC
Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished articles will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS MUST CONSULT THE JOURNAL'S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at
http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guidelines submission.pdf ,
PRIOR TO SUBMISSION.
All submissions must be forwarded electronically to cartan@unicas.it .

PUBLISHER:
The International Journal of Digital Literacy and Digital Competence is published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the 'Information Science Reference' (formerly Idea Group Reference) and 'Medical Information Science Reference' imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com.

All inquiries and submissions should be should be directed to the attention of:
Dr. Antonio Cartelli
Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Digital Literacy and Digital Conference
E-mail: cartan@unicas.it
www.igi-global.com/ijdldc
www.competenzedigitali.it/journ-e.htm