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This paper examined the issue of sustainable development in the light of information literacy. Sustainable development which has been described as the development that meets the social, economic and technological needs of the present without compromising the ability of the future populace to meet their own needs; would be difficult to attain, if Nigerians still depend only on traditional literacy of only reading, writing and numeracy. This would be grossly inadequate to achieve sustainable development in this age of highly digitalized information communication technologies. There is need for individuals to access necessary information made possible with communication technologies. Access to vital information will enable each person to have equal rights to economic resources, access to basic services which eventually will lead not only to individual’s sustainable development but also that of the nation. The paper recommended that diverse strategies should be put in place to help citizens acquire information literacy and each person should acquire basic skills in accessing information through digital device, and that elibraries should be encouraged in each institution of higher learning as information literacy is highly important to every sector of the economy.
ADEDOKUN, MARY OLUFUNKE (Ph. D). (2018) Information Literacy and Sustainable Development, International Review of Management and Business Research, Volume 7, Issue 2.
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