The FCC released the National Broadband Plan this week at http://broadband.gov/plan/ . Timothy Vollmer from Creative Commons blogged about this at http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/21260 , pointing out the promising direction of the plan. 

On the NITLE-IT list, Cristian Opazo from Vassar paid particular attention  to Recommendation 9.3:

Recommendation 9.3: The federal government should launch a National Digital Literacy Program that creates a Digital Literacy Corps, increases the capacity of digital literacy partners and creates an Online Digital Literacy Portal.


"In an increasingly digital world, literacy must be defined more broadly to include fluency in digital skills and information. Digital literacy is “the ability to find, evaluate, utilize, and create information using digital technology.”⁶¹ Additional skills include “the ability to read and interpret media (text, sound, images), to reproduce data and images through digital manipulation and to evaluate and apply new knowledge gained from digital environments.”⁶² It can include the ability to analyze and reflect critically on digital media.⁶³ Digital citizenship and safety are often included in definitions of digital literacy as well."