These alarming stats make one thing clear: Cybersecurity literacy and readiness are lacking when they need to be growing.
But it's also possible we would have gotten here faster if a different approach had been adopted one that made it clearer that literacy isn't just about "skills". Standards that specified content like historical events to be covered might have helped, although that doesn't seem to have done the trick in Massachusetts.
"London's businesses are clear that core literacy and numeracy and general employability skills must be prioritised," says Lucy Haynes, CBI London director.
Safari Tales is one of the good guys though: not only is it paid for entirely upfront, but it has clear educational goals – "literacy skills through creative play" as its developer puts it.
Although literacy has clear benefits in enabling acquisition of knowledge across, as well as within, generations, it is not clear that illiteracy affects reproductive fitness, and persistence of genetic variants that selectively impair reading would pose far less of a paradox than would persistence of variants affecting oral language.
She believes reducing the high rate of illiteracy is key to bringing about change and says the government needs a clear plan to increase literacy over the next five years.
The mosque inkwell (above), eloquent of the huge role that Islam has always played in spreading literacy, makes clear the same link in Africa.
It is clear, though, that Braille literacy has been waning for some time, even among the most intellectually capable, and the report has inspired a fervent movement to change the way blind people read.
Thus, it is clear that as adult literacy and the number of Internet users grows the demand for PCs also increases.
To be able to participate actively, patients required certain resources and prerequisites (eg, social network, health literacy and clear information/instructions), as well as being treated with respect.
