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Digital Citizenship

Nate Hill @natenatenate National Library of Colombia

presentation: http://natehill.net/colombia

Who am I and where do I come from?

So what is digital citizenship?

(digital) citizenship > (digital) participation > (digital) action

  • how does a library facilitate (digital) action?
  • when do digital and physical actions overlap and collide?
  • and what are our professional values?

The UNESCO library definition:

Freedom, Prosperity and the Development of society and individuals are fundamental human values. They will only be attained through the ability of well-informed citizens to exercise their democratic rights and to play an active role in society. Constructive participation and the development of democracy depend on satisfactory education as well as on free and unlimited access to knowledge, thought, culture and information. The public library, the local gateway to knowledge, provides a basic condition for lifelong learning, independent decision-making and cultural development of the individual and social groups.

Example 1

Facilitating digital citizenship in a mid-sized public library

Example 2

Facilitating digital citizenship in a library consortium

Example 3

Facilitating digital citizenship at the national level

Chattanooga's 4th Floor as an example

"we know this place is a mess right now"

by helping your library, you are helping yourself

The 4th floor is a public laboratory and educational facility with a focus on information, design, technology, and the applied arts.

The City: Reform

The Mayor’s Office will develop and implement strategies to shift City departments and policies toward openness, setting the standard for public information to be easily available to and understandable by citizens.

The Library: Access

The Public Library will create an open data portal, a one-stop-shop for local data to be used by citizens, including developers, designers, journalists, non-profit organizations, and researchers.

The Brigade: Engage

Using the public data opened by the City and hosted on the portal, the Open Chattanooga Brigade- a citizen-led team of creative thinkers, neighborhood advocates, data nerds, designers, developers, and entrepreneurs- will train citizens to create visualizations, apps, and other solutions to address community information needs.

reflecting on all of that, I have a few suggestions

avoid analysis paralysis

and

launch more new things

seek out emergent qualities and try to understand them

link the edges

The 4th Floor worked because:

  • we aimed to help solve other people’s problems - we empathized
  • we both used and facilitated the design process - dogfooding
  • we loved to collaborate, and brought value to the table
  • we knew that culture is EVERYTHING
  • we tried new stuff all of the time - we iterated
  • we all liked making real things - we made prototypes
  • we went and partied at other people’s parties, not just our own

Applying this pattern to another kind of organization

METRO is a lab where New York's libraries and archives come together to learn, innovate, and collaborate on digital initiatives.

and in the spirit of rapid prototyping, here are a few new things we currently have under way

Example 3

Facilitating digital citizenship at the national level

Finally, a gift to the National Library

Thanks!!!

Nate Hill @natenatenate

presentation: http://natehill.net/colombia

Digital Citizenship Nate Hill @natenatenate National Library of Colombia presentation: http://natehill.net/colombia