La alfabetización informacional como estrategia para enfrentar la brecha digital: concepciones actuales y perspectivas de futuro en la biblioteca municipal Pedro Elio Cevallos Ponce en el periodo 2022-2023

Abstract

Information literacy is a discipline that has gained space and importance in academic training, especially in higher education. Because this disciplinary approach includes a set of skills and abilities to perform tasks related to information is that it constitutes a fundamental strategy to combat the digital divide, defined as the distance between individual, residential, academic and geographical areas at different socio-economic levels in relation to their opportunities to access new information and communication technologies as well as the use of the Internet, which ends up reflecting differences both between different countries or institutions at the local level. In this context, the purpose of this research work is to analyze how information literacy is used as a strategy to address the digital divide; For this, the current conceptions and future prospects are addressed in the Municipal Library Pedro Elio Cevallos Ponce in the period 2022-2023. Based on a qualitative, quantitative and descriptive methodological orientation, this study analyzes and investigates how Information Literacy provides tools to combat the digital divide and can make good use of information, in addition to evaluating and organizing the data to which they have access.