Work Team A-5: Skills acquisition for the digital citizenship

Work Group description

Literacy as a set of skills and demands of the human learning of a series of signs and codes functional processes of communication between individuals. This is known as literacy learning, and includes the purchase of devices known to be written and read by individuals in their socialization process.

Similarly, the performance of citizen demand generation capabilities of reading and writing of signs and codes that enable their appropriate political and functional integration in the development of the society in which it operates. However, generally speaking, only citizens are close to a quick interpretation of political signs that others read to them (politicians and media among others). In other words, people are rarely linked in processes of self-supported by its active participation in the activities of political fact. This occurs primarily for its shortcomings in handling the devices knowledge of reading, writing and acting in the field of politics. To perform public demand, therefore, a kind of political literacy.
However, in the digital age literacy policy does not only refer to symbols and codes to the year of traditional politics, but also the proper management tools including technical support, events such as optimization, process automation and digitization and the generation of virtual environments or in similar areas.

This means, essentially, that the process of civic education is built in a spiral, it is unfinished, and it nourishes itself on a sense citizen investigating the performance from the latter.

Education itself, therefore, needs to be redefined in order to account for two processes of different order but complementary. Firstly, education should enable the citizens (literacy in communication devices from political fact) to have a positive impact on the process of civic education. And, secondly, to enable education to equip citizens with tools for critical and informed approach to the changing world of information and communication technologies to enable the creation and strengthening of critical capabilities and operations in construction of technological applications solutions to the problems diagnosed.

Digital citizenship is achievable, and will, therefore, the possibility of deployment when the powers of citizens beyond the mere management of the various tools offered by the interfaces of e-government and e-democracy, and when they result in citizens training processes for the deployment of capabilities and skills in addressing the critical tools provided by the government. When transcend further its position as host of computerized solutions to the active position on questions of generators and builders of answers to the problems raised.