Hello everyone
and welcome to our online course on
Digital Civic Engagement.
If you are an
individual like me
who cares about the world we live in,
if you're concerned about the environment
and the impact of global warming,
if you want to promote
the rule of law or you want to advance
animal rights, or you are troubled by the
raising inequality and poverty in the
world
and you want to make a difference but
you don't know how.
This course is exactly about you!
Within its five modules you'll be able to
understand how politicians take
decisions,
what are the entry points of all of us
as citizens in order to make a
difference
and influence policy-making and how
we should go about that in the digital
world in order to
optimize its opportunities.
And we have
one promise
to make to you from the very beginning,
we are not going to trouble you
to read hundreds of pages of dry text.
No!
We are going to put forward in a very
understandable
way some key concepts for you and we are
going to provide you with
plenty of very very exciting and
inspiring
human stories at practical examples of
making a difference in our local
communities.
Let's zoom in the first module for
example.
It is comprised of three units.
In the
first one
you will understand more about the concepts
of citizenship, of civic engagement
and of digital participation.
The second
one
will tell us all how politicians
are acting in the digital world and how
decision making
process takes place.
Moreover we will
understand
how young people are participating in
the policymaking throughout Europe.
In the third part of this first module
you will be able to explore yourself
plenty of very interesting practical
examples
of civic engagement in the digital era
and its
impact in the local communities.
Last but
not least after
every module you'll be able to check
yourself through self-evaluation
your new skills and knowledge acquired.
Already excited?
Let's get started then!
Shall we?