Humanity is facing nearly insurmountable challenges, risks, and crises. Resource depletion, global pollution of the entire biosphere, and climate change due to our excessive and uncontrollably growing human population may be the most difficult long-term problems that urgently need to be solved. However, the current influenza pandemic and other unforeseen but inevitable health emergencies includ...

With high-risk sexual behaviours evident among many South African youth aged 14–24 years, numerous interventions have been implemented intending to promote their sexual health.1,2 The ability of youth to protect themselves from unplanned pregnancy,3 intergenerational sex, intimate partner violence,4 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and sexually t...

Overview 7 Purpose of the study 7 Background to the study 7 The place of CIL in relation to traditional disciplines 10 Research questions, participants, and instruments 12 Computer and information literacy framework 15 Overview 15 Defining computer and information literacy 16 Structure of the computer and information literacy construct 18 Strands and aspects 19 Contextual framework 25 Overview ...