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Eastern Citizens Media and Information Literacy and Digital

Literacy Status

Regarding the MIL and DL status classified by 1,885 Eastern citizens, the 3 key
competencies have an average score that including 76.2 points in “Access”, 68.6 points in
“Evaluate” and 67.5 points in “Create”. An average score of three elements are 70.6 points

or ranked into Intermediate class that can explained, Thais can appropriately use and
consume the information from media in daily life. And result of the Digital Literacy survey
that shown, citizens of Thailand have average score 66.6 points or rank into Intermediate

and can explained that Eastern citizens have technology usage skill in basic level. According
to the basic skill and knowledge, the possibility of illegal behavior because lack of
knowledge that include ethical knowledge, law knowledge and security knowledge. With
Thailand MIL and DL status, the public sector must collaborate with private sector and

citizens to improving digital competence for creating innovation and transforming to digital
citizenships.

Competence Score Status

Media and Information Literacy 70.6 Intermediate

Access 76.2 Intermediate
Evaluation 68.6 Intermediate

Creation 67.5 Intermediate
Digital Literacy 66.6 Intermediate

Digital Rights and Responsibilities 63.2 Basic
Digital Access (Medium) 64.8 Basic
Digital Communication (Method) 72.9 Intermediate

Digital Security and Safety 59.0 Basic

Media and Information Literacy 70.6 Intermediate
Digital Etiquette 73.4 Intermediate
Digital Health and Wellness 69.7 Intermediate

Digital Commerce 61.4 Basic
Digital Law 53.3 Basic

Status level classified by criteria for consideration with a full score of 100 (classified into 4 levels)