And only Government can do much about the low state of public education and technical literacy.

They are taught to solve a problem or a need and, in doing so, develop high-level thinking skills, known as technical literacy."

In 1997, Stone left CTCNet but continued working and advising in the area of technical literacy.

I argued that we have 2 underpinning literacies, which include Information Literacy and the often overlooked System literacy, 2 Technical literacies, IT Literacy and ICT Literacy, and 2 composite literacies, e-learning and e-government literacies.