Title

Computer-Based Functional Literacy: How Digital Literacy Projects Can Transform The Third-World Workforce

Keywords

Computer-based; Functional; India; Literacy; Tata Consultancy Services; Training

Abstract

Because of the cost-benefit of computer-based training (CBT), large multinational corporations now have the ability to train workers all over the world. Programs such as Tata Consultancy Services' Computer-Based Functional Literacy (CBFL) show that CBT is also an appropriate method for teaching literacy. In developing countries where American corporations are seeking to hire native workers, the governments and these corporations should combine their efforts to use CBT both to impart literacy - where needed - and to train the workforce. Technical writers can use CBFL concepts to make manuals or CBT more accessible to people in cultures where literacy does not predominate.

Publication Date

1-1-2003

Publication Title

IEEE International Professional Communication Conference

Number of Pages

385-390

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/ipcc.2003.1245519

Socpus ID

0242489553 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0242489553

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