The presentation focuses on building community engagement through a digital economy and digital services and how ADFI ids focussed on digital literacies.

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Building Community Engagement
through a Digital Economy and
Digital Services
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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

2. Overview
n Digital economy
n Digital age
n Digital citizenship
n Digital inclusion
n Digital literacies
n Community
Engagement
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3. Digital Economy
n 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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4. Digital Age

5. 2014 NMC Technology Outlook for
Australian Tertiary Education

8. Digital Citizenship

9. 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
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http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/what-digital-
literacies.html
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10. http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/

11. Europe - Digital Agenda
Scoreboard 2012
n 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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12. Literacy is a contested
concept
n There is currently no universally accepted
definition of media literacy, information
literacy, digital literacy, or even of “media”
itself.
n The 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

13. Australian Digital
Futures Institute

14. Vision
ADFI’s vision is to
transform the
knowledge and skills
of society through
fostering digital
literacies

16. Community Engagement

17. Capacity Building Projects

18. Research Capacity Building
$5.1 million
Partnership with ANU & UniSA
90 Researchers
5 projects
Leadership Development Program

21. Access & Equity Projects

24. Digital Economy in Regional Australia
nConnecting regional Australia to the
global network
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