每年9月8日是“世界扫盲日”,根据联合国重新定义的文盲标准,如果不会看地图、不会使用计算机,也就会被列入信息时代的“新文盲”之列。联合国重新定义的新世纪文盲标准分为三类:第一类,不能读书识字的人,这是传统意义上的老文盲;第二类,不能识别现代社会符号(即地图、曲线图等 Every year on 8th of September, World Literacy Day, according to the UN’s standard of illiteracy, computers will not be used if they do not look at maps and will be listed as “new illiterates” in the information age. The standards of illiteracy in the new century as redefined by the United Nations are divided into three categories: the first category is those who can not read and write; this is the old literacy in the traditional sense; the second category does not recognize the symbols of modern society (ie, maps, graphs, etc.)