digital economy and digital services
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Building Community Engagement through a Digital Economy and
Digital Services !
USQ Local Government Engagement Symposium: Research in Action
The Ship Inn Function Room, August 1, 2014 - South Bank Brisbane
Professor Mike Keppell Executive Director
Australian Digital Futures Institute Director, Digital Futures - CRN
OverviewnDigital economy nDigital age nDigital citizenship nDigital inclusion nDigital literacies nCommunity
Engagement
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Digital Economyn The global
network of economic and social activities that are enabled by information and communications technologies, such as the internet, mobile and sensor networks.
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Digital Age
2014 NMC Technology Outlook for Australian Tertiary Education
Digital Citizenship
Wheeler Digital Literacies
n Social networking skills n Transliteracy skills n Maintaining Privacy n Managing Identity n Creating content n Organising and sharing content n Reusing/repurposing content n Filtering and selecting content n Self broadcasting
!!http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/what-digital-literacies.html
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Europe - Digital Agenda Scoreboard 2012n 73% of EU households had access to the internet n A lack of skills is the second most important reason
for not having access to the internet n Only 53% of the labour force - confident that they
had sufficient digital skills to change jobs. n Age, gender, and education remain the key
challenges. Older people, women, those with lower levels of education tend to have lower level digital skills.
n http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/sites/digital-agenda/files/scoreboard_digital_skills.pdf
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Literacy is a contested conceptnThere is currently no universally accepted
definition of media literacy, information literacy, digital literacy, or even of “media” itself.
nThe digital divide is much more than a ‘technology access’ divide; without the skills to use the technologies an even greater divide emerges – the information literacy divide.
n http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/unesco_mil_indicators_background_document_2011_final_en.pdf
Australian Digital Futures Institute
Vision
ADFI’s vision is to transform the knowledge and skills of society through fostering digital literacies
Community Engagement
Capacity Building Projects
Research Capacity Building
$5.1 million
Partnership with ANU & UniSA
90 Researchers
5 projects
Leadership Development Program
Access & Equity Projects
Digital Economy in Regional Australia
nConnecting regional Australia to the global network
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