Dear AOIRers,, I am a researcher from the Laboratory for Digital Inclusion and Community Learning, from School of the Future, in Brazil, and I am currently focusing my research on digital literacy and how online competences develop among telecentre beginner users. I would be extremely grateful if anyone could point me to some study, preferably qualitative but also quantitative, regarding this theme, or also some study about digital competences and low income population. I have read some theoretical work about it, but couldn't find yet empirical data or descriptions of experiences. Thank you in advance for your help, Daniela Matielo -- Dani Matielo dacamat@gmail.com dde_carvalho@uoc.edu dani@futuro.usp.br http://digitaloging.blogspot.com/ "The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say an uncommon-place thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles." ~ Jack Kerouac