On October 15, 2007, the Verizon Foundation and its national partners hosted the National Literacy Summit.3 - Competitive Literacies for the Global Economy: Building Learning Communities. The Webcast event convened global thought leaders to discuss and demonstrate how technology drives the definition of literacy and learning required in a competitive global economy.

The goals of the summit included:

• Establishing a dialogue about perpetuating literate communities - the most fundamental unit to global competitiveness.
• Examining the global context that drives the urgency to improve literacy and educational achievement in America.
• Defining the literacy skills that are driven and enabled by technology, and that are required for competitiveness in the U.S. and global economies.
• Establishing a clear definition of the "literate community."
• Demonstrating resources and technology-driven solutions that enable communities to increase access and achievement to empower today's workforce.

To view the archived version of the Webcast, click here. [1]

The National Literacy Summit.3 is hosted by the Verizon Foundation, in partnership with the American Library Association, Georgetown University, the National Center for Family Literacy, the National Coalition for Literacy and ProLiteracy Worldwide.