COMMISSION EDUCATION ET CULTURE

PRESENTATION DES GROUPES DE TRAVAIL

Digital Citizen
a transversal Working Group

Education and Culture Committee - Commission Education et Culture

Claude VIVIER LE GOT, Chair
Karl DONERT and Julianne LAGADEC, Vice-Chairs
 Purpose of the session
• Defining the digital context
• What are the main issues? - Activity
• Digital Citizen (or Digital Citizenship)? -
Discussion
• An introduction to ‘Futures’
• Roadmap – work plan for the working group
The Digital
Context
The Digital
Context
Disruptive Innovation
 Disruption: threats and
consequences
Threats Consequences
• Chaos – instability - • New engagement
change routine processes
• Investment • Organisational change
• Resistance – fear • Different decision
• Loss of control making
• Ownership - security • Integrated systems
• Quality • Exchange of knowledge
 Disruption: opportunities
• Full control – monitoring • Empowering
learning process / outcomes
• Motivating – exciting –
• Adjust expenditure attractive
• Improve organisation • Flexible organisations
• Systemic change – • Competitive
different roles
• Optimising – greater
• Move forward – efficiency
progress
 Disruption: opportunities
• Full control – monitoring • Empowering
learning process / outcomes
• Motivating – exciting –
• Adjust expenditure attractive
• Improve organisation • Flexible organisations
• Systemic change – • Competitive
different roles
• Optimising – greater
• Move forward – efficiency
progress

What actions already exist?

 http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=1223&langId=en

in work, at play, in the home, at school, on the bus

= everywhere
 Euractiv, http://tinyurl.com/zhllrtm

We need to research this

Digital Citizen WG: contexts
• A transversal group implies different contexts
• This means we need to establish / agree clear
priorities
• Should avoid repetition of what has already
been done
• Firstly, let’s think about the different contexts
within which this group will work
1. Society is different today..
1. Society is different today..
 2. Democracy: Getting Involved?
e-democracy: also
known as digital
democracy or Internet
democracy,
incorporates 21st-
century information
and communications
What roles / responsibilities technologies to
when you are empowered? promote and enable
democracy
3. Human Rights: what impact?
digital rights describes
the human rights that
allow individuals to
access, use, create, and
publish digital media or to
access and use computers,
other electronic devices,
or communications
networks
Agree?
 4. Education: Getting Smart?

What does it mean to be an

iTeacher? (innovative teacher)

Use of smart tools on smart devices with smart

learners … has the power to change everything
 4. Education: Getting Smart?
What does
it mean to
Independent learners
be an
iLearner?
(independent How does the role of
learner) learning and the actions of
learners change? If at all….

Digital means learning can become personalised

to meet the real needs of each individual
5. Policy: inspirational leadership?
We need inspirational leadership to
embrace the challenges of innovative
technology and the growing demand
for access to information

What does it mean to be an iLeader?

(inspirational leader)
5. Policy: inspirational leadership?

Can we educate digital leaders?

Digital Citizen Working Group: Purpose
• Address digital issues from the citizen’s
perspective = in terms of Education (&
Culture), Human Rights, Democracy
• Establish a pro-active, forward looking
approach – not a reactive approach as in the
past
• Consider: What is the future we want for the
digital citizen?
• What measures can we initiate / put in place
to support this vision?
 What do you think are
the main issues this WG
needs to address?
An activity 15-20 minutes
Work in pairs or in groups

http://bit.ly/2EMPXHl
Add the most important issues for the
Digital Citizen http://bit.ly/2EMPXHl
Choose a colour
Post your ideas – in english or french
What are the most important issues to
address for the Digital Citizen?

Comments?
The Digital Citizen &
Digital Citizenship
A series of slides on the distinction
between these topics
 Definitions?
• A digital citizen refers to a person utilizing
information technology (IT) in order to engage in
society, politics, and government.
• Mossberger, et al. said digital citizens “use the
Internet regularly and effectively”
(Wikipedia)

Is this a suitable definition or do we need to make

our own?
• What ideas exist about digital citizens and
citizenship?
Digital Citizen Digitally
literate
Components

Values, key Digitally

competences capable

Cyber-
security skills
Should we be
addressing
the issue
globally?
 Digital
Citizens
in school

http://www.redwood.school.nz/digital-citizenship
Citizenship = responsibility
Concept
Mapping
Citizenship Mapping
 What is already being done?
To address this, we need to:
• undertake an audit of what is being done (and
not done) by policy makers, NGOs
• Examine / consider the issues and gaps
• consider / define the areas to deal with and
• prioritise them
• develop an action plan for the future
Council of Europe
http://bit.ly/2mZret5
Council of Europe
http://bit.ly/2mXCVzu
 Council of Europe: CDMSI
https://www.coe.int/en/web/freedom-expression

• Steering Committee on Media and Information CDMSI

• steers the Council of Europe’s work in freedom of expression,
media, Internet governance and other information society
• it oversees the work on personal data protection
• intergovernmental composition, welcomes the participation
of observers representing civil society
 EC: Digital European Commissioner
http://bit.ly/2DjVjKi

The internet is a common good for humanity that can drive

improvements in society and the economy.
Building and maintaining an open, transparent and inclusive system
of Internet governance will help ensure benefits for all.
EC: European Policies
 Discussion points
• What can we learn from these initiatives and
approaches?

• What (other) ideas do you/we have?

• Discussion
– what influence can we have in terms of policy?
– what should we seek to do?
 Conclusions: Futures
• What sort of future do we want for the digital
citizen?

• Foresight Activity at the Summer meeting

 Digital Futures
• Innovative approach = anticipatory
thinking
• Designed to reflect on future policy needs
3 components:
• Foresight – generate visions of the future
• Impacts, expectations
• Participatory policy development
(evidence-based)
 European Digital Success
…. a framework
describing what is
needed for people to
thrive in a digitally-
based living
environment

Establish
Capability Jisc, Digital Capability
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/building-digital-capability
 European Digital Success
• universities are thriving in strong
partnerships with regional institutions.
• education is ‘in’ … to use technology to help
address global problems
• automation and data-intensive scientific
progress
• from closed policy to evidence-based policy
and monitoring (including smart cities)
• cities become laboratories of democracy
Do we want Smart Cities?
They need smart people to:
use data and technology to create
efficiencies, improve
sustainability, create economic
development, and enhance
quality of life
 Digital Citizen Roadmap
• Define issues and context we will work in – January
2018
• Examine futures – addressing the issues – what is
the future we want for digital citizens? – June 2018
• Decide on measures / activities – position
statements, white paper, campaign, side event
• Connect with policy groups and groups inside the
Council of Europe and EC and ….
• Develop outputs – for instance a publication on a
“future we want” for the digital citizen
 Further comments?
Preparation work before the next meeting
a) Research from your perspective the policies
in lace for the digital citizen … for example in
security, rights and education
b) What is the ideal situation for a digital
citizen?
c) What gaps need to be filled? Which are not
being covered.