About

The Digital Natives with a Cause? programme is a join initiative by Hivos and the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, that focuses on understanding how citizen agency can be stimulated and power balances challenged by looking at these issues from the combined perspectives of technology, youth and engagement. By addressing knowledge gaps, creating a knowledge network, giving back the voice to the Digital Natives and involve other stakeholders, particularly academics and practitioners, in dialogue with the digital natives. Thereby they will contextualise and paint a larger picture of the questions of agency, transformation and youth in different parts of the world.

Introduction to Digital Natives with a Cause?

Youth are often seen as potential agents of change for reshaping their own societies. Considering their size in terms of numbers in developing countries unleashing the potential of even a part of this group promises to substantially impact societies. Youth are more naturally equipped with the skills to make use of the potential of ICT and actually are seen as the driver of this transformation. Especially now when youths thriving on digital technologies flood universities, work forces, and gov...

Background

Citizens are agents of change and development Equitable and sustainable development depends on open and vibrant democracies. Citizens are the central actors in public and political arenas. Their ability to hold governments to account and to participate fully in democratic processes is contingent upon the opportunities to freely assemble, associate and express opinions– including the right to seek, receive and impart information. But citizens agency is not only the purpose – or the ends – of d...

Partners

Centre for Internet and Society (CIS)The Centre for Internet and Society is a research organisation based in Bangalore, Inida, and founded in 2008. It brings together a team of practitioners, theoreticians, researchers and artists tow work on the emerging field of Internet and Society to critically engage with concerns of digital pluralism, public accountability and pedagogic practices, in the field of Internet and Society, with particular emphasis on South-South dialogues and exchange. Throu...

Links in the Chain Newsletter

"Links in the Chain" is a bi-monthly publication for everyone who is interested in learning more about the Digital Natives who form part of the "Digital Natives with a Cause?" community. The Newsletter includes opinion posts by participants from the three workshops as well as the facilitators, interview with them, comics and cartoons highlighting current issues affecting the community, as well as current news and discussions happening at the project website, www.digitalnat...

Blogathon

Rights have been on everyone's agenda lately. From the political revolutions that shook the Middle East and North Africa which sustained their motivation through an universal appeal to them, to questions of privacy, openness and access to information in the post-wikileaks world, human rights as a political, social and developmental framework for discussion is very much active. We want to get your opinions on the subject, in a cre...ative way: On March 21st, on the occasion of the Human righ...
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