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科技改變社會數位原生代掀波
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<b>The Chinese press published an article on Digital Natives.</b>
<p>8月16日到18日,原生代工作坊(Digital Natives)將在中研院舉辦數位,關注年輕世代如何運用科技改變社會,荷蘭的國際發展組織、印度的網路與社會研究中心,以及台灣關心資訊社會實踐的研究機構與民間組織,將一起探索數位原生代的全球現象。<br /><br />數位原生代工作坊的主要提問是,為何數位原生代變成理解當代的一個重要的範疇?我們認為什麼樣的人是數位原生代?我們認為數位原生代在浮現的資訊社會中,扮演著什麼樣的角色?我們該如何將科技實踐,整合到我們這個時代的政治關懷中?<br /><br />年輕世代的力量<br />荷蘭Hivos人道發展合作組織(the Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation)知識計畫召集人史傳密拉(Josine Stremmelaar)表示,Hivos知識計畫的目的,是希望結合在地與全球力量,關注社會與災害議題。<br /><br />史傳蜜拉認為,過去沒有足夠的知識,讓在地與全球的組織作分享,如果無法處理知識快速流通及傳播,無法面對層出不窮的全球問題。<br /><br />Hivos數位原生代計畫主持人簡森(Fieke Jansen)指出,全球年輕人運用科技,為社會做出貢獻,有些年輕人運用Facebook串連社會力量,表達年輕人對社會議題的憤怒與重視,她希望藉由工作坊,讓年輕人有更深入的討論,以及為過去行動作整理與分享。<br /><br />科技與社會的關係<br />印度網際網路社會中心研究主任尼善‧沙(Nishant Shah),希望透過數位原生代計畫,讓年輕人瞭解自己,認識人際關係,也瞭解自己在社會上的位置。<br /><br />尼善‧沙認為,數位原生代涵蓋就學的年輕人,也包括進入產官學界的年輕人,不同的領域透過科技促成社會的改變。2010 年,全世界的年輕人將達到12億人,其中有85%居住在開發中國家。這些年輕人潛能的開發,彼此的互相串連,將帶來社會的重組。<br /><br />在中研院即將舉辦的工作坊將有16個國家,28 位與會者從微觀家庭到政治的各種脈絡中,來討論「數位原生代回應」的政治、影響與歷程,以及瞭解年輕人如何用科技改變現況,科技如何形塑人與人的新關係。<br /><br />Pad.ma公共近用數位媒體典藏計畫共同創辦人馬荷卓(Namita A. Malhotra),她同時也是facilitator工作坊引導員。馬荷卓經營數位媒體典藏計畫,她希望透過紀錄片或影片的方式,來紀錄社會變動,也紀錄民眾如何用社會力量來對抗法律、社會跟言論審查。馬荷卓跑過的國家包括泰國、緬甸、印尼、印度等,透過影片紀錄不同國家情況,這次工作坊也會播出其中一部紀錄片。<br /><br />開拓文教基金會李士傑表示,開拓文教基金會致力於讓資訊科技變成社會改變的關鍵力量,積極推廣全球資訊網給公民社會、非政府組織使用,這次與荷蘭、印度一同舉辦國際數位原生代工作坊,希望分享經營網路論壇,構想民間議題與對話的經驗,這次工作坊結合數位原生代國際浪潮,將國際關注的焦點與支持力量與台灣分享交流。<br /><br />Pad.ma公共近用數位媒體典藏計畫共同創辦人馬荷卓(Namita A. Malhotra),將在數位原生代工作坊放映關於民眾力量對抗全球的影片。 </p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaDigital Natives2011-04-02T10:22:26ZNews Item科技改變社會 數位原生代計畫
http://editors.cis-india.org/news/digital-natives-chinese-press
<b>The Chinese language press covered the Digital Natives workshop in Taipei.</b>
<p>8月16日到18日,原生代工作坊(Digital Natives)將在中研院舉辦數位,關注年輕世代如何運用科技改變社會,荷蘭的國際發展組織、印度的網路與社會研究中心,以及台灣關心資訊社會實踐的研究機構與民間組織,將一起探索數位原生代的全球現象。<br /><br />荷蘭Hivos人道發展合作組織(the Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation)知識計畫召集人史傳密拉(Josine Stremmelaar)表示,Hivos知識計畫的目的,是希望結合在地與全球力量,關注社會與災害議題。<br /><br />史傳蜜拉認為,過去沒有足夠的知識,讓在地與全球的組織作分享,如果無法處理知識快速流通及傳播,無法面對層出不窮的全球問題。<br /><br />Hivos數位原生代計畫主持人簡森(Fieke Jansen)指出,全球年輕人運用科技,為社會做出貢獻,有些年輕人運用Facebook串連社會力量,表達年輕人對社會議題的憤怒與重視,她希望藉由工作坊,讓年輕人有更深入的討論,以及為過去行動作整理與分享。<br /><br />尼善‧沙認為,數位原生代涵蓋就學的年輕人,也包括進入產官學界的年輕人,不同的領域透過科技促成社會的改變。2010 年,全世界的年輕人將達到12億人,其中有85%居住在開發中國家。這些年輕人潛能的開發,彼此的互相串連,將帶來社會的重組。<br /><br />在中研院即將舉辦的工作坊將有16個國家,28 位與會者從微觀家庭到政治的各種脈絡中,來討論「數位原生代回應」的政治、影響與歷程,以及瞭解年輕人如何用科技改變現況,科技如何形塑人與人的新關係。<br /><br />Pad.ma公共近用數位媒體典藏計畫共同創辦人馬荷卓(Namita A. Malhotra),她同時也是facilitator工作坊引導員。馬荷卓經營數位媒體典藏計畫,她希望透過紀錄片或影片的方式,來紀錄社會變動,也紀錄民眾如何用社會力量來對抗法律、社會跟言論審查。馬荷卓跑過的國家包括泰國、緬甸、印尼、印度等,透過影片紀錄不同國家情況,這次工作坊也會播出其中一部紀錄片。<br /><br />開拓文教基金會李士傑表示,開拓文教基金會致力於讓資訊科技變成社會改變的關鍵力量,積極推廣全球資訊網給公民社會、非政府組織使用,這次與荷蘭、印度一同舉辦國際數位原生代工作坊,希望分享經營網路論壇,構想民間議題與對話的經驗,這次工作坊結合數位原生代國際浪潮,將國際關注的焦點與支持力量與台灣分享交流。<br /><br />Pad.ma公共近用數位媒體典藏計畫共同創辦人馬荷卓(Namita A. Malhotra),將在數位原生代工作坊放映關於民眾力量對抗全球的影片。</p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaDigital Natives2011-04-02T10:22:00ZNews Itemનિશાંત શાહ: ડિજિટલ પેઢીનો ઉદય
http://editors.cis-india.org/digital-natives/blog/digital-native-in-divya-bhaskar
<b>‘ડિજિટલ નાગરિક’ તેમને કહેવામાં આવે છે જેણે સામાન્ય જનજીવનમાં ડિજિટલ ટેક્નોલોજીના પ્રવેશ થઈ ગયા બાદ જન્મ લીધો છે. ડિજિટલ નાગરિકો દરેક જગ્યાએ છે. હવે સમય આવી ગયો છે કે આપણે એ જાણવાનો પ્રયાસ કરીએ કે આ લોકો કોણ છે, તેઓ શું કરી રહ્યા છે, તેઓ પોતાના અંગે શું વિચારે છે અને કેવી રીતે તેઓ કશું પણ જાણ્યા વગર આપણા ભવિષ્યને નવો આકાર આપવાનું કામ કરી રહ્યા છે.</b>
<p>એક નવા પ્રકારની ‘ડિજિટલ નાગરિકતા’નો ધીમે-ધીમે ઉદય થઈ રહ્યો છે. ડિજિટલ ટેકનિક આપણી નવી પેઢીના સામાજિક ડીએનએનો એક ભાગ બની ચૂકી છે. આ પેઢીએ ટેક્નોલોજીની દુનિયામાં જ જન્મ લીધો હોવાથી તેમનો તેની સાથેનો સંબંધ તેમની અગાઉની પેઢી જેવો નથી. દુનિયાના ઘણા બધા લોકોને અસર કરનારી ઓગસ્ટની એક ઘટના જાણવા જેવી છે. તેઓ જ્યારે પોતાનાં કમ્પ્યૂટરો,પીડીએ, આઈપેડ અને લેપટોપ પર ઓનલાઈન થયાં ત્યારે તેમને અહેસાસ થયો કે તેમની વાતચીત,ગપ્પાંબાજી, ચેટિંગ, શેરિંગ સહિતની અનેક બાબતોની તાસીર કોઈ પણ જાતની પૂર્વ સૂચના વગર રાતોરાત બદલાઈ ગઈ છે.</p>
<p>એક નાનકડા પરિવર્તને અનેક આયામો ખોલી નાખ્યાં છે. દુનિયાના કરોડો લોકો માટે દોસ્તી કરવાનો, સંબંધ બનાવવાનો, વ્યવસાયિક નેટવર્કની સ્થાપના કરવાનો, મનોરંજનનો, યાદોનો સંગ્રહ કરવાનો અને એક-બીજા સાથે આપ-લેનું માધ્યમ બનેલી વેબસાઈટ ફેસબુકે પોતાના પ્રાયવસી સેટિંગમાં એક નાનકડું પરિવર્તન કરીને અનેક લોકોને નવી સુવિધા પૂરી પાડી છે. જેના દ્વારા તેઓ જ્યાં ઇચ્છે ત્યાં ‘જિયો ટેગ’ (એક એવી પ્રણાલિ જેના દ્વારા ફોટા, વીડિયો, વેબસાઈટ જેવા વિવિધ મીડિયા કે આરએસએસ ફીડમાં ભૌગોલિક ઓળખના ડેટાને જોડી શકાય છે) નો ઉપયોગ કરી શકે છે.</p>
<p>બદલાઈ રહેલી દુનિયામાં આ પ્રકારની સુવિધાઓ મહત્વની બની રહી છે. ડિજિટલ નાગરિકો વચ્ચે આ બાબતો ચર્ચા અને કેટલીક વખત અફવાનો વિષય પણ બની જતી હોય છે, જેની પાછળ ચર્ચા કરવામાં યુવાનો પોતાની ઘણી ઊર્જા ખર્ચી નાખે છે. વેબદુનિયામાં તમને એવા અનેક લોકો મળી જશે જે ટિન ફોઈલની ટોપી પહેરીને ફરતા હોય છે અને નવા માધ્યમમાં જૂની માન્યતાઓ અંગે વાતો કરતા હોય છે. તેમને માટે આ નવી ટેકનિકલ સુવિધાઓનો અર્થ છે રોજિંદા જીવનના અનુભવો અને વિચારોને એક-બીજા સાથે વહેંચવાનો વધુ એક નવો વિચાર.</p>
<p>‘જિયો-ટેગિંગ’ જેવી સુવિધાઓનો ઉપયોગ કરતા લોક વાસ્તવિક જીવન અને કલ્પનાઓની સરહદોને એક-બીજા સાથે મિલાવી દેવાનું પસંદ કરે છે. આપણામાંથી ઘણા લોકો એવા હશે જેમને આ બધી બાબતો વિચિત્ર લાગે એમ છે. તેઓ વિચારશે કે આ પ્રકારની પ્રતિક્રિયાઓનું શું કારણ છે? છેવટે લોકો આટલી સામાન્ય બાબતોમાં કેમ રસ દાખવે છે? આ પ્રકારની ફાલતું બાબતો માટે લોકોને સમય ક્યાંથી મળે છે? જે લોકો ડિજિટલ દુનિયાથી અપરિચિત છે કે જેમને તેની સાથે કોઈ સંબંધ જ નથી, તેમની સામે હું માથું નમાવ્યા સિવાય કશું કરી શકું તેમ નથી.</p>
<p>પરંતુ પોતાનો ઘણો બધો સમય ફેસબુક, માયસ્પેસ અને ટ્વિટર જેવી સોશિયલ નેટવર્કિંગ સાઈટ પર વિતાવનારા, ગેમ્સ રમતા, બ્લોગ લખતા કે બીજાના બ્લોગ પર પોતાનો અભિપ્રાય વ્યક્ત કરતા, પોતાના ફોટો એકાઉન્ટને અપડેટ કરતા રહેતા અને પોતાની ડિજિટલ ઓળખને વધુ વિસ્તારતા રહેતા ‘ડિજિટલ નાગરિકો’ માટે આ તમામ બાબતો અત્યંત મહત્વની છે.</p>
<p>કદાચ તમારામાંથી ઘણા લોકોએ આ અગાઉ ‘ડિજિટલ નાગરિકતા’ અંગે સાંભળ્યું નહીં હોય, પરંતુ આ કોઈ કપોળ કલ્પિત વાત નથી. ‘ડિજિટલ નાગરિક’ તેમને કહેવામાં આવે છે જેણે સામાન્ય જનજીવનમાં ડિજિટલ ટેક્નોલોજીના પ્રવેશ બાદ જન્મ લીધો છે. આ કારણે તે કમ્પ્યૂટર, ઇન્ટરનેટ, મોબાઈલ ફોન, એમપીથ્રી જેવી ટેક્નિકલ સુવિધાઓથી સંપૂર્ણપણે વાકેફ છે. સામાન્ય રીતે ૧૯૭૦ બાદ જન્મેલાને ડિજિટલ પેઢી કહેવામાં આવે છે, પરંતુ ૨૧મી સદીની માહિતી ક્રાંતિમાં ઊછરેલી પેઢી માટે આ વ્યાખ્યા ફિટ બેસે છે.</p>
<p>‘ડિજિટલ નાગરિકતા’ શબ્દનો સૌ પ્રથમ ઉપયોગ માર્ક પ્રેન્સ્કીએ વર્ષ ૨૦૦૧માં પોતાના પુસ્તક ‘ડિજિટલ નોટિંગ્સ, ડિજિટલ ઇમિગ્રન્ટ્સ’માં કર્યો હતો. ડિજિટલ નાગરિકોનાં સામાજિક ગુણસૂત્રોમાં જ આ ટેક્નોલોજી સમાઈ ચૂકી છે. તેની સાથે નવી પેઢી એટલી વણાયેલી છે કે તેમને તે કૃત્રિમ ઉપકરણ નથી લાગતાં. આ ટેક્નોલોજી તેમની જીવનશૈલીનો એક ભાગ બની ચૂકી છે. ‘ડિજિટલ નાગરિકતા’ના સૌથી મોટી ઉંમરના સભ્યો તે છે જેમણે પોતાની ઉંમરના ત્રણ દાયકા પાર કરી દીધા છે.</p>
<p>જ્યારે સૌથી નાની ઉંમરના તેમને કહેવાય જેમણે તાજેતરમાં જ દુનિયાને જાણવા-સમજવાની શરૂઆત કરી છે. શક્ય છે કે દુનિયાનાં અનેક મહત્વનાં દસ્તાવેજોમાં હજુ તેમના નામનો સમાવેશ પણ થયો ન હોય. ડિજિટલ નાગરિકો દરેક જગ્યાએ છે. કદાચ તેઓ એવી માહિતીઓ અને જાણકારીઓના સ્ત્રોત છે જેમને આપણે વિકીપીડિયા પર વાંચીએ છીએ.</p>
<p>ડિજિટલ નાગરિકો સંપૂર્ણ રીતે નવી ટેક્નોલોજીમાં ઊતરી ચૂકેલા છે, નિપુણ છે. તેમને માટે ભૌતિક દુનિયામાંથી આભાસી-કાલ્પનિક દુનિયામાં પહોંચી જવું ડાબા હાથનો ખેલ છે. સમય અને સ્થળની મર્યાદાઓ તેમના માટે કોઈ અર્થ નથી રાખતી. તેઓ ધીમે-ધીમે, ચુપચાપ પરંતુ નિરંતરતાની સાથે આપણી દુનિયાની રૂપરેખાઓને બદલી રહ્યા છે. આ ‘ડિજિટલ નાગરિક’ આપણી દુનિયાના સ્થાયી નાગરિક છે અને હવે તેમની વાતો પર ધ્યાન આપવાનો સમય આવી ગયો છે. આપણે એ જાણવાનો પ્રયાસ કરીએ કે આ લોકો કોણ છે, તેઓ શું કરી રહ્યા છે, તેઓ પોતાના અંગે શું વિચારે છે અને કેવી રીતે તેઓ કશું પણ જાણ્યા વગર આપણા ભવિષ્યને નવો આકાર આપવાનું કામ કરી રહ્યા છે.</p>
<p>નિશાંત શાહ, લેખક સેન્ટર ફોર ઇન્ટરનેટ એન્ડ સોસાયટીના સંશોધન ડાયરેક્ટર છે.</p>
<p>This column on Digital Natives by Nishant Shah appeared in the Gujarati newspaper <a class="external-link" href="http://www.divyabhaskar.co.in/article/ABH-now-starwar-on-televison-1446568.html">Divya Bhaskar</a></p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaDigital Natives2011-08-04T10:31:25ZBlog EntryYou Are Here
http://editors.cis-india.org/digital-natives/blog/you-are-here
<b>Geo-tagging applications are creating new and impromptu communities of true.</b>
<p>As somebody who thinks he is quite “with it” when it comes to digital technologies, my universe was slightly shaken by a bunch of screen-agers. I asked them if they blogged. There were 10 seconds of awkward silence, in which they exchanged looks, cleared throats and fidgeted. I thought I had perhaps crossed a line and they might be uncomfortable sharing their personal blogs with me. The universe of blogs is often restricted to close friends. I was just about to reassure them that they did not have to share theirs, when a bold one looked me in the eye and said, “You still blog? You must be so old! Blogging is, like, so 20th century!” The school kids, their pockets bulging with iPods, PSPs, cellphones and Bluetooth devices all nodded in unison.</p>
<p>It was a startling realisation that about a decade ago, there were young people, largely in schools and universities, for whom blogging was the coolest thing. Sites like LiveJournal, Blogspot and Wordpress were the hottest addresses. People formed communities, interest groups, meet-up platforms, swap groups and cool-kids’ clubs while providing detailed insights into their personal life and incisive commentary on the world around them. Blogging has been accepted by all sectors of society; governments use them for the dissemination of policies and reports, marketing companies use them to share reviews and invite feedback, schools and universities use them as teaching tools.</p>
<p>However, after this unsettling adventure, I decided to figure out where the younger generation was spending its time. A little bit of prodding and the screen-agers guided me to interfaces that were more than just screens to access the internet. And so I was introduced to FourSquare, the geo-tagging application that rides on your cellphone and publishes information about your physical location. An app which has become a rage around the world. With the easy availability of smart phones and cheap GPRS access, it has become easy to triangulate one’s position using Global Positioning Systems (via satellite) or your Internet Service Providers. FourSquare, like many other applications, blurs the ever decreasing gap between virtual reality and real life, and now allows users to “check in” at locations that they pass through and publish information about their whereabouts, on sites like Facebook or especially dedicated sites.</p>
<p>For the digital native it has become a way of forming a support group and a peer network like never before. Of the six digital natives I spoke to, at least two keep track of their close friends through this app. All of them have participated in flash parties, one met his girlfriend because they happened to be in the same coffee shop and sent each other messages. Two confessed to “stalking” somebody in school using the app. And then one told me the story of how FourSquare helped her in a sticky situation. Let’s call her R.</p>
<p>One night, after a study session with her friends, R and her roommate started their 2 km walk home. On the way, they became aware of a group of boys following them. They were only half-way home and the streets were completely deserted, since it was past midnight. R posted about it on FourSquare, and marked the route she was taking home and sent it to all the people who had checked in at different places on that route. And to her relief and surprise, she immediately received messages on “how to be safe”. One enterprising user asked all the users still awake on the route that R and her friend were taking to come out and stand at their gates. In a matter of minutes, R was delighted to see the streets no longer deserted. On the short walk home, she encountered 17 people, mostly young, standing by and seeing them home to safety. R recalls the incident with pleasure.</p>
<p>When I asked her about the possibility of somebody else harassing them because they knew they were vulnerable, she looked a little perplexed and said, “but they were all my friends,” despite the fact that she did not know any of them and had never met them. They were together in a design of trust that the application provided and because of their digital commonalities, they had become friends and neighbours and communities of support for each other. “And now you are going to blog about it, aren’t you?” asked R, as all of them burst into giggles.</p>
<p>Read the original in<a class="external-link" href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/you-are-here/694540/3"> Indian Express</a></p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaDigital Natives2011-08-04T10:31:31ZBlog EntryWith No Distinction
http://editors.cis-india.org/digital-natives/video-contest/entries/with-no-distinction
<b>My video explores the spiritual aspect of digital technology and how rather than getting in the way of our spiritual expression, it is actually bringing us face to face with it, if only we choose to look.</b>
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<p><strong>What do you understand by the term Digital Native? Do you consider yourself one?</strong><br />A “native” is somebody who has a love for a place and whose heart & soul are connected to that place. To me a “digital native” is <strong>anyone</strong> who has a place inside of them where technology grows and nurtures their soul.</p>
<p><strong>There is a perception that digital natives occupy certain demography, namely, the Young, White, Male, American who are often apathetic to social causes. Do you agree?</strong><br />I think often digital technology is used superficially to augment and support the ego. Anyone belonging to any demographic can fall victim to this shallow use of technology, just as anyone can become a true digital native using technology to transcend the limitations of their ego.</p>
<p><strong>Can digital natives from developing nations create an impact with digital activism?</strong><br />Absolutely, digital technology has a very unique ability to be utilized by anyone in the world with a creative ability to apply it to achieve their goals. I personally use digital technology to discover and support causes that I would not ordinarily be informed about from other media. This allows me to direct my energies where I choose and not have those choices made for me by media companies and governments.</p>
<p><strong>Ground activism has changed in the last decade. How effective are digital campaigns in raising awareness about an issue?</strong><br />I believe digital technology is most effective when it is partnered with real world street activism and gatherings of people face to face. On its own digital technology is profoundly effective at creating awareness about issues but that alone is not enough to effect lasting changes.</p>
<p><strong>Critics refer to digital natives with the pejorative term ‘slacktivist’. You agree?</strong><br />The first and most important step to any campaign for any cause is in the minds of the people. “Likes, Clicks and Shares” are a valuable step towards reaching people who gather their opinions and determine their actions through digital technology.</p>
<p><strong>A recent example of online activism is the ‘Get Kony 2012’ video campaign. Have you watched it?</strong><br />Yes, it’s an incredibly powerful and imaginative work for a very worthwhile cause.</p>
<p><strong>Are we seeing a trend where digital natives are more involved with local (neighborhood) causes than with global issues?</strong><br />Everything is connected. One person making a personal choice on an issue in their daily life has as much importance as the largest global campaign. The small personal gestures lead to local gestures which in turn lead to global gestures, there is NO DISTINCTION.</p>
<p><strong>Share your thoughts on ICT-led Citizen Action. Where do you see it headed?</strong><br />The more we creatively embrace the “new” of any kind, technological or otherwise, and apply our imagination with our deepest Love, the more our world will resemble that Love.</p>
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No publisherottebyaDigital Natives2012-04-04T10:52:06ZPageWiki changes the world
http://editors.cis-india.org/digital-natives/blog/wiki-world
<b>A fortnightly column on ‘Digital Natives’ authored by Nishant Shah is featured in the Sunday Eye, the national edition of Indian Express, Delhi, from September 2010 onwards. This article was published in the Indian Express on January 23, 2011. In this Nishant Shah explains how Wiki changes the world by making the ordinary person the expert and knowledge free.</b>
<p>If you have a question, where do you go? To books? To encyclopaedias? To knowledgeable friends? To experts in that field? The quest for knowledge is not easy. Often, we encounter false leads and reach dead ends. We often find ourselves dependent on vanguards and bearers of knowledge. The knowledge industry, which includes academia, schools, universities, libraries, archives, etc. have created labels that define consumers, producers and mediators of knowledge.</p>
<p>What do you do with the answer of a question? You generally store it in your memory. If it is an answer that you are searching for collaboratively, you share it with the concerned people. If you are meticulous and like to archive information, you probably write it down in a big brown book. But for many of us, we see our relationship with knowledge as one of consumption. Books, and indeed columns like this one, are written by “experts”.</p>
<p>If you have an answer, but nobody is asking you the question, what do you do with it? This was the question that Jimmy Wales, asked a decade ago. He then thought of starting a web-based, collaborative platform for knowledge production — now known as Wikipedia. Working on an open structure, Wikipedia invites anybody with internet access to start contributing and consolidating their knowledge through a process of discussion, consensus-building and collaboration. Unlike a regular encyclopaedia with its army of knowledge warriors, Wikipedia depends on everyday users who harness the power of information to bring together the “sum total of human knowledge”. In 10 years, Wikipedia has become the de facto global reference point for dynamic knowledge and boasts of more than 17 million articles with more than 365 million readers in 263 language editions.</p>
<p>For digital natives, the growth of Wikipedia illustrates the changing ways in which digital natives are learning and engaging with knowledge, both inside and outside of formal education.</p>
<h3>Knowledge is a process</h3>
<p>Digital natives, who contribute to Wikipedia and learn from it, know that there is more to knowledge than what is on the surface. While the entries on Wikipedia serve as a fount of information, it is layered by discussions, edit-wars, and processes of mediation that produce objective content. For young users of Wikipedia, the ability to question the content, the protocols of producing neutral evidence, and the often intense discussions, establish an intimate relationship with knowledge.</p>
<p>They look at knowledge as fluid, as open to contention and produced through multiple perspectives. In the world of user-generated content, knowledge is seen as a process of engagement rather than as an object to be mechanically consumed. Hence, it is not uncommon to see digital natives encountering information online — on platforms like Wikipedia, but also on blogs and discussion forums — expressing opinions and challenging the content when it does not fit their experience of that information.</p>
<h3>Your experiences are also knowledge</h3>
<p>One of the most important lessons that Wikipedia teaches a digital native, is that knowledge is not authored only by people with the backing of institutions. While there are some systems of knowledge which require formal training, there is a huge value in everyday and lived experiences. Encyclopaedias discriminate between different kinds of knowledge — Shakespeare’s work might find an entry in almost all of these, but the 16-year-old writer who has a larger readership than Shakespeare might easily be excluded. However, on Wikipedia, any realm of the cultural, political or social that is relevant and significantly affects our everyday life finds space and detailed research. This translation of lived experience into knowledge is new and opens up ways of producing alternative and plural knowledge systems around objects, people, events and ideas that shape the world.</p>
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<p>Digital natives who have grown up in the Wikified world have also experienced information as something that belongs to a larger community. They don’t even espouse it as an ideology, but often think of knowledge as open and residing within digital public commons. In their multiple roles as bearers, producers, and consumers of knowledge, they are used to remixing, sharing and disseminating knowledge into a wider ecology. The analogue regimes of intellectual property and copyright do not make sense to them in a medium that is intuitively made for copying, sharing and owning knowledge collaboratively.</p>
<p>In the largely Wikifying world that we live in, the notions of what constitutes knowledge, how one accesses knowledge and how people interact with it is undergoing radical change. And the digital natives are silently but significantly shaping new ways of imagining knowledge processes, proving to us that the pen might be mightier than the sword, but the click trumps them both.</p>
<p>Original article was published by the <a class="external-link" href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/wiki-changes-the-world/740173/1">Indian Express</a></p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaDigital Natives2012-01-03T10:23:38ZBlog EntryWhose Change Is It Anyway? | DML2013
http://editors.cis-india.org/digital-natives/blog/nishant-shah-whose-change-is-it-anyway
<b>As a preparation for the DML conference, Nishant Shah had an interview with Howard Rheingold, a cyberculture pioneer, social media innovator, and author of "Smart Mobs. Nishant Shah is chair of 'Whose Change Is It Anyway? Futures, Youth, Technology And Citizen Action In The Global South (And The Rest Of The World)' track at DML2013. Here, he talks about shifts in citizen engagement in Indian politics and civics, and the underlying significance of these changes.</b>
<p style="text-align: justify;">"More and more, you have young people who are trying to come together, not merely to express discontent, but actually take action so that they can build the kinds of futures they want to occupy."</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The 2013 DML conference will be held in March 14-16, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. The conference is supported by the MacArthur Foundation and organized by the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub located at the University of California's systemwide Humanities Research Institute at UC Irvine.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">More details about the DML2013 Conference and the Call For Workshop/Panel/Paper Proposals can be found at the conference website: <a class="external-link" href="http://dml2013.dmlhub.net">dml2013.dmlhub.net</a>.</p>
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No publishernishantVideoCyberculturesResearchers at WorkDigital Natives2015-04-24T11:47:19ZBlog EntryWhose Change is it Anyway?
http://editors.cis-india.org/news/whose-change-is-it-anyway
<b>The first product from the Whose Change is it Anyway? Hague workshop with Hivos in February is out. The video captures the process of knowledge generation there. </b>
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No publisherpraskrishnaVideoDigital Natives2013-06-05T08:40:17ZNews ItemWhose Change is it Anyway?
http://editors.cis-india.org/digital-natives/blog/hivos-knowledge-programme-june-14-2013-nishant-shah-whose-change-is-it-anyway
<b>This thought piece is an attempt to reflect critically on existing practices of “making change” and its implications for the future of citizen action in information and network societies. It observes that change is constantly and explicitly invoked at different stages in research, practice, and policy in relation to digital technologies, citizen action, and network societies. </b>
<p>The White Paper by Nishant Shah was <a class="external-link" href="http://www.hivos.net/Hivos-Knowledge-Programme/Themes/Civic-Explorations/Publications/Whose-Change-is-it-anyway">published by Hivos recently</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">However, we do not have adequate frameworks to address the idea of change. What constitutes change? What are the intentions that make change possible? Who are the actors involved? Whose change is it, anyway?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Drawing on the Hivos Knowledge Programme and on knowledge frameworks around youth, technology, and change from the last four years, this thought piece introduces new ways of defining, locating, and figuring change. In the process, it also helps understand the role that digital technologies play in shaping and amplifying our processes and practices of change, and to understand actors of change who are not necessarily confined to the category of “citizen”, which seems to be understood as the de facto agent of change in contemporary social upheavals, political uprisings, and cultural innovations.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Methodologically, this thought piece attempts to make three discursive interventions: It locates digital activism in historical trajectories, positing that digital activism has deep ties to traditional activism, when it comes to the core political cause. Simultaneously, it recognises that new modes of political engagement are demanding and producing novel practices and introducing new actors and stakeholders. It looks at contemporary digital and network theories, but also draws on older philosophical lineages to discuss the crises that we seek to address. It tries to interject these abstractions and theoretical frameworks back into the field by producing two case studies that show how engagement with these questions might help us reflect critically on our past practices and knowledge as well as on visions for and speculations about the future, and how these shape contemporary network societies. It builds a theoretical framework based on knowledge gleaned from conversations, interviews, and on-the-ground action with different groups and communities in emerging information societies, and integrates with new critical theory to build an interdisciplinary and accessible framework that seeks to inform research, development-based interventions, and policy structures at the intersection of digital technologies, citizen action, and change by introducing questions around change into existing discourse.</p>
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<p><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/digital-natives/blog/whose-change-is-it-anyway.pdf" class="internal-link">Click to download the full White Paper here</a> (PDF, 321 Kb)</p>
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No publishernishantDigital ActivismRAW PublicationsDigital NativesYouthFeaturedPublicationsHomepage2015-04-17T10:56:47ZBlog EntryWho the Hack?
http://editors.cis-india.org/digital-natives/blog/who-the-hack
<b>A hacker is not an evil spirit, instead he can outwit digital systems to bring about social change, writes Nishant Shah in this column published in the Indian Express on April 24, 2011.</b>
<p>One of the most sullied words that have pervaded public discourse, with the rise of the internet, is “hacker”. The word conjures up images of a silent, menacing, technology-savvy young man, who, with his almost magical control over the digital realm, manipulates systems, changes the laws, rewrites the rules and takes complete control. We hear stories about criminals hacking often enough — people who break into national security systems and retrieve sensitive information, teenagers who crash servers by spamming them with unnecessary traffic, users who commit credit fraud by phishing or breaking into bank accounts, or shutting down entire systems by erasing all the code.</p>
<h3>Hackers v/s Crackers</h3>
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<p>As many of us know, the term hacker has a different origin and meaning than its abused application. In fact, people who perform maleficent activities using their technological prowess are called “crackers” — these are people who use their ability to interact with a system in order to make personal gains or to harass others. A hacker is a person who has extraordinary technology skills and is able to manipulate digital systems and makes them perform tasks which were not a part of their original design. Which means that a geek who can hack into a server and uses the free space to host a free website, aimed for public good, or a techie who writes a programme that can use the idle computing time of your machines to run peer-to-peer networks, or a teenager who can break the constraints of an existing software to integrate it with other programmes, are all hackers. A hacker is defined by his ability to play around with the basic elements of a system (not necessarily digital and internet-based) and perform actions, sometimes for social good, but often, for fun and to explore the digital world’s frontiers. They are not the evil spirits that we often imagine them to be.</p>
<p>Hackers can be suffused with a spirit of civic good and of social beneficence. Around the world, hackers have used their technology skills to make public interventions to resolve a crisis in their environments. From the now notorious Julian Assange and his WikiLeaks platform to more positive efforts like Ipaidabribe.com, a civic hackers have emerged as our new heroes. Ipaidabribe.com is a civic hacking website, which allows users to use digital storytelling as a method by which they can start discussions on corruption and what we can do to change the systems.</p>
<p>Many digital natives are civic hackers. Aditya Kulkarni, one of our earliest participants with the “Digital Natives with a Cause” programme, is a digital native civic hacker. Like many young people in India, Aditya, from Mumbai, found the field of electoral politics opaque. He found it difficult to understand why good people voted for bad leaders and why large sections of the society shirk their responsibility to vote, thus leading to flawed governments. He, with his friends, started VoteIndia.in, a website where they collected information from public domain sources about electoral candidates in their local constituencies, so that voters could make informed decisions. The website was an instance of civic hacktivism.</p>
<p>I talk about hacking because I want to draw your attention to the phenomenon that started with Anna Hazare’s anti-corruption stance and the series of public interventions that surrounded it. Hazare has emerged as a hero for many. He has been trending on Twitter, there are pages dedicated to him on Facebook, Tumblr blogs have been spreading his word, text messages have urged people to come out in support. While there is much speculation about Hazare’s politics and the media spectacle that it has created, little attention has been given to Hazare’s almost exclusively off-line campaign and the way in which social media tools have been able to capture his momentum and turn it into a series of civic hacktivist interventions.</p>
<p>Flashmobs with people bearing candles and chanting against corruption emerged in cities. Public consultations organised by young people saw critical engagement with questions of corruption. The interwebz have been abuzz with people expressing opinions and calling for public mobilisation. Anti-corruption convictions have found resonance with people who, otherwise, despite having access to these technologies, would not necessarily have engaged in these kinds of civic hacktivities. This, for me, is not only a sign of hope but also a moment of understanding that digital activism is not always restricted to the digital domain.</p>
<p>As in the case of Aditya, and that of Hazare, the germ of an idea is often offline. The processes of protest and demonstration towards social change travel across the physical and the digital world. The idea of a digital native as a civic hacktivist reminds us that the young person behind the computer, in a virtual reality, is not dissociated from the embedded contexts of everyday life. Their skills with the computer often help them make critical interventions to mobilise social change.</p>
<p><em>See the original article published by the Indian Express <a class="external-link" href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/who-the-hack/779496/">here</a></em></p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaWeb PoliticsResearchers at WorkDigital Natives2015-05-14T12:16:59ZBlog EntryWho is a Digital Native?
http://editors.cis-india.org/digital-natives/video-contest/entries/who-is-a-digital-native
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<dl><dt>Name(s)</dt><dd>Andrés Felipe Arias Palma</dd><dt>Location</dt><dd>Barranquilla, Colombia</dd><dt>Age</dt><dd>22</dd><dt>Profession</dt><dd>Journalist and Communications Analyst</dd>
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<p>I think many people are digital natives unknowingly. Being a digital native is a relationship with activism and society, not as they initially thought. It was a condition of being born in specific times and external factors. In the video, I will interview people about who and what is a digital native? How to use the Internet? What is internet advantages and disadvantages for society where everything is interconnected to the Web.<br /><br /></p>
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<p><strong>On being a Digital Native</strong><br />I think that a Digital Native is somebody who has made technology a basic tool to cover all of her or his own needs. Anyway, there aren’t any specific features that can define a digital native because it’s a condition you define for yourself. I don’t know if I’m a digital native, but technology has been very useful for my work and social initiatives.</p>
<p><strong>You agree with a perception that the digital native is typically a “White, American, Young, Male” who’s always connected to his gadgets and apathetic to social issues?</strong><br />I think it’s just a stereotype, but there are people who don’t have any social life and are stuck at home, online, all day long; and there is the person that works with social projects and makes use of technology as an instrument to optimize the labor as well. I think that the digital natives can be many, starting from being a web developer to responding to a simple tweet - you choose on what side or what kind of person you want to be.</p>
<p><strong>Can digital natives from developing nations create an impact with digital activism?</strong><br />It is very important to know which one of the tools we employ is functional for what we want and what we need. For example, I am not going to use twitter to target a community that doesn’t have any idea of what Web 2.0 is; in this case, perhaps it is more useful to use some other kind of technology or service. At present, I support the “Asociación Latinoamericana de Educación Radiofónica” on virtual workshops and with social media. Thus, I work with popular audiovisual education.</p>
<p><strong>How effective are digital activism campaigns in raising awareness about an issue in comparison to traditional activism such as protest march or hunger strikes?</strong><br />The traditional protest will never fade out. What’s happening is that the network and the new technologies are making facts more visible, therefore issues are more transparent today and people are more aware. It depends on how each activist strategizes for his / her campaign. The real problem is when people mobilize support only through one platform and neglect the other. Both, digital and traditional (activism) go hand in hand.</p>
<p><strong>The ‘Get Kony’ campaign created by US-based NGO Invisible Children has created controversy. What are your thoughts on the campaign?</strong><br />Although I haven’t seen it, the news and comments on the video brings to my mind the image of the typical ‘Young, White, American, Male’ stereotype that we just spoke about. However, it’s worth mentioning that the “Get Kony” campaign has captured the attention of people, maybe because it uses a lot of audiovisual material and has received support from mainstream media, so perhaps something good might come out of it.</p>
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No publisheranfearpaDigital Natives2012-04-04T10:54:22ZPageWhat scares a Digital Native? Blogathon
http://editors.cis-india.org/digital-natives/blog/what-scares-a-digital-native-blogathon-1
<b>What Scares technologized young people around the world? In an effort to present a view often not heard in traditional discourses, on Monday the 18th of April 2011, young people from across the world blogged about their fears in relation to the digitalisation of society.
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No publishertettnerWeb PoliticsResearchers at WorkDigital Natives2015-05-14T12:16:14ZBlog EntryWhat it means to be a child today
http://editors.cis-india.org/news/a-child-today
<b>They move seamlessly between reality and virtual reality. The digital landscape they inhabit comprises generations — not of family — but of technology such as Web 2.0, 3G, PS4 and iPhone5. Their world has moved beyond their neighbourhood, school and childhood friends to encompass a 500-channel television universe, the global gaming village, the endless internet. These are the children born in the last decade and half — possibly the first generation that has never known a world without hi-tech.</b>
<p>These tweens and teens were born with dial-up internet, learnt to crawl alongside the PC and practiced writing the alphabet on the desktop. To them, a world without keypads, joysticks, digicams, headphones and LCD is unimaginable. For them, the Dark Ages are the time when television was black and white.</p>
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<p>Nishant Shah, director of research at the Centre for Internet and Society in <a class="external-link" href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Bangalore">Bangalore</a>, says, "We are living with digital natives — populations that do not know the ins and outs of analogue technologies but they do often instinctively take to the world of digital and internet technologies. They view the world differently, connect with each other in unprecedented fashions and often question the authority structures developed by analogue technologies."</p>
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<p>But no one is born into or with technology, Shah points out, and it's still the older generation that is shaping the new technologies.</p>
<p>Even so Indian childhood in 2010 is markedly different from ever before, he says, in that "the younger generations growing up with digital and internet technologies are using them for things that were not integral to the technologies. For example, Facebook was only meant to be a social networking site. Twitter was merely a microblogging platform. And yet, we now see the young users using these spaces for political participation, social transformation and mobilization of resources."</p>
<p>A survey of 14,000 children aged between 12 and 18 in 12 Indian cities by <a class="external-link" href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Tata-Consultancy-Services">Tata Consultancy Services</a> last year found that 63% of urban students spend an hour online daily; more than 80% have access to mobile phones and one in four have laptops. They do their homework and assignments online, access report cards, chat, blog, game, download, SMS and send photos via Bluetooth. The internet is becoming friend, philosopher and guide for the 'screenagers', supplying them with endless friendship requests, enlisting them for social causes and sometimes offering emotional solace.</p>
<p>Delhi student Manil Chhabra, 13, who swears by his mobile, desktop and PS2, supports many causes on Facebook, including the welfare of street dogs and gay rights. He also bonds with friends online. "My mother gets angry that I 'waste' too much time on the cell phone and online but I do try to make family time. It is not like I don't want to go out with my parents anymore. But I have a busy schedule and have free time only on Sundays. I would rather spend it with friends than my parents who I meet every day."</p>
<p>That said, this doesn't always translate into 'real' friendship of the physical sort. Mumbai businessman Anoop Sharma says of his 14-year-old daughter Aruhi, "My daughter has friends she chats with on Facebook but does not even say 'hi' to when she meets them!"</p>
<p>Admittedly, many young Indians today limit their friendships to the slightly antiseptic interaction possible on the Net. In Mumbai, Amara Mustan, 10, is constantly busy with his iPhone, an iPod with a "state-of-the-art" docking station and a Macbook. She says, "I don't think I have the time to be in touch with any of my friends except on Facebook."</p>
<p>Does this change social interaction? Clinical psychologist and student counsellor Dr Etishree Bhati agrees that the way children now use technology redefines the way they judge themselves and interact with everyone else. "Earlier, children turned to parents and siblings for emotional support. Today, they are checking up personality, IQ and other tests online themselves. Coming to me is the last option. Sometimes, they even crosscheck whether what I tell them tallies with these test results," says Bhati.</p>
<p>So yes, children in 2010 are more knowledgeable and aware. The downside is the "superiority complex and stress" says Bhati wryly.</p>
<p>For urban children then, if both parents are at work, the school day ends with returning to an empty home and the 'human' contact of the internet. Manil's mother, Simar Chhabra, says she is sad to note that today's children "do not understand and realize the joy of solitude. My son has absolutely no time for himself. Even when he is in bed, he is messaging till the time he falls asleep. They are disconnected from themselves and with their families."</p>
<p>Bhati says the impact of increasing exposure to technology is yet to be understood. "Cognitive learning can get affected. Some schools have barred students from joining Facebook. But what do you do when teachers are themselves interacting with the whole class on Facebook?"</p>
<p>As children routinely Google for answers to class quizzes, skipping books and encyclopaedias altogether, scientists worry that they are in danger of developing 'magpie minds' — flitting between web pages and losing the ability to analyze.</p>
<p>Is technology at fault? No, says Nishant Shah. "Technology in itself cannot be good or bad. It is we, the users, who make the decisions on our usage of it and what we can do with it. Children as young as two are also getting introduced to books. Is exposure to books at much younger ages necessarily bad?"</p>
<p>Shah believes that young users of technology are exactly like the generations that went before — only different. "Each generation has used the technologies that they are most familiar with, in order to bring about change."</p>
<p>He believes that the era of individualism seems to be ending and the future lies in networks and how we work, live and play within networked societies.</p>
<p>Is the 'twitch speed' or the rate at which networked children adapt to newer technologies the number every parent and school teacher needs to know? Keeping pace may be the only way to stay connected with the networked generation.</p>
<p>Read the news in the <a class="external-link" href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-toi/special-report/What-it-means-to-be-a-child-today/articleshow/6922578.cms">Times of India</a></p>
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No publisherpraskrishnaDigital Natives2011-04-02T07:42:34ZNews ItemWhat does it mean to be a digital native?
http://editors.cis-india.org/news/cnn-december-8-2012-oliver-joy-what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-digital-native
<b>The war between natives and immigrants is ending. The natives have won.</b>
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<p class="cnn_storypgraph2 cnn_storypgraphtxt" style="text-align: justify; ">Oliver Joy's blog post was <a class="external-link" href="http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/04/business/digital-native-prensky/index.html">published by CNN</a> on December 8, 2012. Nishant Shah is quoted, criticising Marc Prensky's ideas of digital nativity as borne of privilege and first-world centricity.</p>
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<p class="cnn_storypgraph2 cnn_storypgraphtxt" style="text-align: justify; ">It was a bloodless conflict fought not with bullets and spears, but with iPhones and floppy disks. Now the battle between the haves and have-nots can begin.</p>
<p class="cnn_storypgraph3 cnn_storypgraphtxt" style="text-align: justify; ">The post-millennial "digital native," a term coined by U.S. author Marc Prensky in 2001 is emerging as the globe's dominant demographic, while the "digital immigrant," becomes a relic of a previous time.</p>
<p class="cnn_storypgraph4 cnn_storypgraphtxt" style="text-align: justify; ">The digital native-immigrant concept describes the generational switchover where people are defined by the technological culture which they're familiar with.</p>
<p class="cnn_storypgraph5 cnn_storypgraphtxt" style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/04/business/digital-native-prensky/index.html">Read more: China looks to lead the Internet of Things</a></p>
<p class="cnn_storypgraph6 cnn_storypgraphtxt" style="text-align: justify; ">Prensky defines digital natives as those born into an innate "new culture" while the digital immigrants are old-world settlers, who have lived in the analogue age and immigrated to the digital world.</p>
<p class="cnn_storypgraph7 cnn_storypgraphtxt" style="text-align: justify; ">Although not Luddites, the immigrants struggle more than natives to adapt to hi-tech progress.</p>
<p class="cnn_storypgraph8 cnn_storypgraphtxt" style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/29/business/opinion-cerf-google-internet-freedom/index.html">Read more: 'Father of the internet': Fight for its freedom </a></p>
<p class="cnn_storypgraph9 cnn_storypgraphtxt" style="text-align: justify; ">The author of "Teaching Digital Natives," whose success pushed him onto the speaking circuit, says the explosion of technology over the last 10 years is just the start of a symbiotic new world. Computers and handsets are becoming an extension of body and mind, creating a Cyborg-like population.</p>
<p class="cnn_storypgraph10 cnn_storypgraphtxt" style="text-align: justify; ">Prensky cites the 100-meter runner Oscar Pistorius, an athlete with prosthetic legs, as an example of how technology is used to enhance our lives. He told CNN: "For humans, what used to be this body of flesh and bone, all that is now just the center... Being human is a moving target."</p>
<p class="cnn_storypgraph11 cnn_storypgraphtxt" style="text-align: justify; "><b>The human race and its struggle to keep up with technology</b></p>
<p class="cnn_storypgraph12 cnn_storypgraphtxt" style="text-align: justify; ">Prensky says that at no time in history has technology moved so fast. Today the latest high-tech gizmos can be passe even before hitting the shop floors.</p>
<p class="cnn_storypgraph13 cnn_storypgraphtxt" style="text-align: justify; ">In the past -- during the post-industrial revolution era, for example -- accelerating technology has plateaued. So, with the meteoric rise of new social media outlets including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Skype, history suggests the world is overdue for a slowdown.</p>
<p class="cnn_storypgraph14 cnn_storypgraphtxt" style="text-align: justify; "><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/04/business/digital-native-prensky/index.html">Read more: Why aren't robots doing my dishes yet?</a></p>
<p class="cnn_storypgraph15 cnn_storypgraphtxt" style="text-align: justify; ">But Prensky says this time, any slowdown in the digital age is a "myth," as innovation will only press forward "faster... And faster and faster."</p>
<p class="cnn_storypgraph16 cnn_storypgraphtxt" style="text-align: justify; ">He told CNN: "We are not going through a transition to another faze of stability, and that is the key point. People will always be behind now and that will be a stress they have to cope with."</p>
<p class="cnn_storypgraph17 cnn_storypgraphtxt" style="text-align: justify; "><b>The new norm</b></p>
<p class="cnn_storypgraph18 cnn_storypgraphtxt" style="text-align: justify; ">Connecting with one another in the modern world requires a knack for social networking and texting, which is the norm for the digital native. But for the immigrant, it can be akin to learning a whole new language.</p>
<p class="cnn_storypgraph19 cnn_storypgraphtxt" style="text-align: justify; ">Prensky illustrates his point with former director of the CIA David Petraeus. In November, he was embroiled in a scandal that revealed he had an affair with Paula Broadwell.</p>
<p class="cnn_storypgraph20 cnn_storypgraphtxt" style="text-align: justify; ">The FBI uncovered the affair while it investigated e-mails that Broadwell allegedly sent to a Petraeus family friend, Jill Kelley.</p>
<p class="cnn_storypgraph21 cnn_storypgraphtxt" style="text-align: justify; ">Prensky labels this naivety by immigrants as "digital stupidity" -- by assuming that when people decide to post online or send e-mails, they believe privacy is automatically applicable.</p>
<p class="cnn_storypgraph21 cnn_storypgraphtxt" style="text-align: justify; ">"People get frightened by change and they should be. They need courage to face the future these days, especially those who feel left behind." Prensky said. "People adapt instinctively and humans are very good at that. The young people live in the context; the older people see the changing context and struggle."</p>
<p class="cnn_storypgraph23 cnn_storypgraphtxt" style="text-align: justify; "><b>Digital poverty</b></p>
<p class="cnn_storypgraph24 cnn_storypgraphtxt" style="text-align: justify; ">As technology filters into every corner of the globe and tech cities spring up in some unlikely places from Bangalore to Tel Aviv, a new gulf is emerging to separate the digitally savvy from the disconnected: Poverty.</p>
<p class="cnn_storypgraph25 cnn_storypgraphtxt" style="text-align: justify; ">In India, over two-thirds of the population live on less than $2 a day, according to the World Bank. But a <a href="http://www.inweh.unu.edu/News/2010-04_UNU-INWEH_News-Release_Sanitation.pdf" target="_blank">United Nations report</a> still says that mobile phones are more common than toilets, with nearly half of India's 1.2 billion population armed with a handset.</p>
<p class="cnn_storypgraph26 cnn_storypgraphtxt" style="text-align: justify; ">Nishant Shah, a director at the Centre for Internet and Society in India, told CNN that defining natives and immigrants by generation is a "serious concern." According to Shah, Prensky's views were formed from the "privileged" position of living in the U.S.</p>
<p class="cnn_storypgraph27 cnn_storypgraphtxt" style="text-align: justify; ">Shah added: "[Prensky's] observations may describe a generation gap that the U.S. faced, but if you transplant the same definition to other parts of the world, natives are sometimes indistinguishable from immigrants."</p>
<p class="cnn_storypgraph28 cnn_storypgraphtxt" style="text-align: justify; ">The real fear for Shah is the new hierarchies created by digital literacy and the class systems that will be shaped by access to digital technologies.</p>
<p class="cnn_storypgraph29 cnn_storypgraphtxt" style="text-align: justify; "><b>The call of the developing world</b></p>
<p class="cnn_storypgraph30 cnn_storypgraphtxt" style="text-align: justify; ">As mobile networks extend their reach and areas become increasingly urbanized, Western tech companies are seeking to tap markets with large populations.</p>
<p class="cnn_storypgraph31 cnn_storypgraphtxt" style="text-align: justify; ">Last year, Finnish phone maker Nokia released a range of smart phones targeted at consumers in emerging markets, particularly in Asia, to compete with cheaper Android devices.</p>
<p class="cnn_storypgraph32 cnn_storypgraphtxt" style="text-align: justify; ">But Shah argues bombarding a country with technology and infrastructure is not a rounded solution to the digital poverty problem.</p>
<p class="cnn_storypgraph33 cnn_storypgraphtxt" style="text-align: justify; ">India, for example, has connectivity and access in abundance, but the country continues to suffer from a generation of "digitally poor classes." He argues that simply providing the equipment does not help young people understand how that technology can better their lives without education and training.</p>
<p class="cnn_storypgraph34 cnn_storypgraphtxt" style="text-align: justify; ">Shah told CNN: "Just because young people have tech access in India, it doesn't make them digital natives." He added, "It creates digital outcasts -- people whose supposed problem of access to the world has been resolved."</p>
<p class="cnn_storypgraph35 cnn_storypgraphtxt" style="text-align: justify; ">Prensky, however, believes a "networked planet" is a sign developing nations will soon close the digital divide. Even those who don't yet have the technology still know that it exists, and will have it before long.</p>
<p class="cnn_storypgraph36 cnn_storypgraphtxt" style="text-align: justify; "><b>The world in 2020</b></p>
<p class="cnn_storypgraph37 cnn_storypgraphtxt" style="text-align: justify; ">By 2020, Prensky predicts people across the globe will be plugged into the "AORTA," -- <a href="http://www.tapsns.com/aboutmark.php" target="_blank">Always On RealTime Access</a> -- a term coined by Mark Anderson, the chief of the Strategic News Service -- specializing in technology news. A future in which people are constantly able to access information and news from anywhere on the planet.</p>
<p class="cnn_storypgraph38 cnn_storypgraphtxt" style="text-align: justify; ">Shah says that the works of science fiction may offer the most accurate insight into our futuristic society.</p>
<p class="cnn_storypgraph39 cnn_storypgraphtxt" style="text-align: justify; ">He said: "The presents that we live in, are the futures that our pasts have imagined."</p>
<p class="cnn_storypgraph40 cnn_storypgraphtxt" style="text-align: justify; ">"Let us hope that the technologies of the future will also be designed to protect that which is sacred, and that which is important in our own understanding of being human."</p>
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<b>The Everyday Digital Native Video Contest invited everyone to send in videos that answered the question: who's the everyday digital native? Participants from all parts of the globe now have the answers. </b>
<p><a href="http://editors.cis-india.org/digital-natives/vote-for-digital-natives/video-contest" class="external-link">Click here</a> to view the videos and vote for your favorite! Voting ends March 31, 2012.</p>
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