Digital Citizenship and Civic Activism

The "digital citizenship" layers , a model for the relationship between technology and citizenship.

0. The Network:
space and time distance, net-relativity, QoS, artificial scarcity, net neutrality, privacy, Locard's principle and breadcrumbs, digital event horizon, traffic profiling, data collection, NSA, survival tools (browser plugins, Tor, etc.)

1. Access:
Minimum services, Maslow's pyramid, digital divide, costs, bandwidth, digital barriers, laws, certified email, SPID (digital identity), civic clouds

2. Education:
Knowledge, threats (technical and political), ECDL, communities, crowdsourcing, crowdserving, usability, "learn to code", Free Software

3. e-Services:
Hardware and software compliance, formats (free, proprietary, de facto standards, de iure standards), APIs, exit-option, P.A. websites, slashdot effect, scalability, EULAs, ethics

4. Transparency:
Civic accoutability, top-down data, opendata, obtorto collo data, leaks, crowdsourcing, FOIA, opendata 5 star classification (Berner-Lee), other classifications (Davies, etc.), "webstacles", scraping, data APIs, REST & JSON

5. e-Participation:
Information gathering, social reporting (with many examples), institutional reporting, quality indicators for reporting sites, civic whistleblowing, citizen journalism

6. e-Consultation:
Types of consultation, types of e-consultations (with pros&cons), polling, petitioning, deliberation, the "Movimento 5 stelle" example case, idea gathering, comment gathering, solution gathering

7. e-Democracy:
Law editing and voting, liquid democracy, delegation, workflow, participatory budgeting

EXAM
Write down an article on a topic chosen in agreement between teacher and student, present the article during exam session