The International Conference on Digital Citizenship
If recent sociodemographic studies indicate that half of the population is connected to the Internet, despite the fact that certain groups are more sluggish than is to be desired at joining the information society, we can say that socialisation of the Internet as a vehicle for finding information, relations, business opportunities, learning or leisure activities has already spread to an extent that we can set ourselves challenges going well beyond its instrumental nature.
The point is that, the greater the number of men and women citizens who network with one another, the shorter the road remaining to what has been coined as the network-society, bringing changes in the core areas of the way we live and organise ourselves: at school, in the way we relate to one another, in relations between the Administration and citizens or even the economy, to name but a few.
It is here, in this context, that it makes sense to stop referring to the Internet as a tool and start reflecting on what it will mean for us to become a digital citizenship, i.e. men and women citizens connected as and with a network, making the most of its possibilities while learning to cope with the new situations, rules and challenges it implies.
The International Conference on Digital Citizenship aims to serve as a yearly meeting point focussing on the cybercitizen concept in its widest sense; a place at which to discuss, reflect on, learn about and address the new situations brought to us by the network-society, in the company of leading world-class experts. From design of a new model of education to redefinition of the participative democracy concept, looking at the global prevention of IT risks, each edition of the Conference on Digital Citizenship will endeavour to throw light on strategic subjects for defining the society of the future.
The theme chosen for the second edition of the International Conference on Digital Citizenship is: WE-GOVERNMENT or the impact of new technologies on the emergence of a new kind of relation between the responsible political and citizenship. This second edition will take place at the Kursaal Conference Centre in Donostia-San Sebastian (Gipuzkoa) from 14 and 15 April 2011.
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The International Conference on Digital Citizenship
If recent sociodemographic studies indicate that half of the population is connected to the Internet, despite the fact that certain groups are more sluggish than is to be desired at joining the information society, we can say that socialisation of the Internet as a vehicle for finding information, relations, business opportunities, learning or leisure activities has already spread to an extent that we can set ourselves challenges going well beyond its instrumental nature.
The point is that, the greater the number of men and women citizens who network with one another, the shorter the road remaining to what has been coined as the network-society, bringing changes in the core areas of the way we live and organise ourselves: at school, in the way we relate to one another, in relations between the Administration and citizens or even the economy, to name but a few.
It is here, in this context, that it makes sense to stop referring to the Internet as a tool and start reflecting on what it will mean for us to become a digital citizenship, i.e. men and women citizens connected as and with a network, making the most of its possibilities while learning to cope with the new situations, rules and challenges it implies.
The International Conference on Digital Citizenship aims to serve as a yearly meeting point focussing on the cybercitizen concept in its widest sense; a place at which to discuss, reflect on, learn about and address the new situations brought to us by the network-society, in the company of leading world-class experts. From design of a new model of education to redefinition of the participative democracy concept, looking at the global prevention of IT risks, each edition of the Conference on Digital Citizenship will endeavour to throw light on strategic subjects for defining the society of the future.
The theme chosen for the second edition of the International Conference on Digital Citizenship is: WE-GOVERNMENT or the impact of new technologies on the emergence of a new kind of relation between the responsible political and citizenship. This second edition will take place at the Kursaal Conference Centre in Donostia-San Sebastian (Gipuzkoa) from 14 and 15 April 2011.
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Palacio Congresos Kursaal
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Donostia-San Sebastián