Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

computer literacy
     
         Basic skill in use of computers, from the
        perspective of such skill being a necessary societal skill.
     
        The term was coined by Andrew Molnar, while director of the
        Office of Computing Activities at the {National Science
        Foundation}.
     
        "We started computer literacy in '72 [...] We coined that
        phrase.  It's sort of ironic.  Nobody knows what computer
        literacy is.  Nobody can define it.  And the reason we
        selected [it] was because nobody could define it, and [...] it
        was a broad enough term that you could get all of these
        programs together under one roof" (cited in Aspray, W.,
        (September 25, 1991) "Interview with Andrew Molnar," OH
        234. Center for the History of Information Processing, Charles
        Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota).
     
        The term, as a coinage, is similar to earlier coinages, such
        as "visual literacy", which {Merriam-Webster
        (http://www.m-w.com/)} dates to 1971, and the more recent
        "media literacy".
     
        (1998-09-07)