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Video: Digital Literacy, Part 9
Michael Peevey
President
California Public Utilities Commission
November 19, 2010
MR. PEEVEY: Digital literacy is extremely important for our state's residents. And we want to compete economically and be relatively advanced socially in an ever-changing world. Here we are in 2010, and if we can't -- if we don't have digital literacy, if we can't use all of the appliances and materials and -- whether it be your PC or your Blackberry or whatever -- these are all part of being able to understand and being able to live with and cope with and make benefit from broadband, Twitter, all these different things, if we can't do that as a society in this state, we will fall further and further behind other states and other countries.
So it's critically important in California that we invest significantly in digital literacy going forward. It's particularly important to be able to help people who come from different backgrounds that are non-English speaking become competent in the whole range of things that is implied by digital literacy.