https://cis-india.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 231 to 233. https://cis-india.org/digital-natives/framing-the-digital-alternatives <b>They effect social change through social media, place their communities on the global map, and share spiritual connections with the digital world - meet the everyday digital native. </b> <p>The Everyday Digital Native video contest has got its pulse on what makes youths from diverse socio-cultural backgrounds connect with one another in the global community – it’s an affinity for digital technologies and Web 2.0-mediated platforms coupled with a drive to spearhead social change. The contest invited people from around the world to make a video that would answer the question, ‘Who is the Everyday Digital Native’? The final videos received more than <del>20,000</del> 3,000 votes from the public and our top five winners emerged from across three continents!</p> <p><a href="https://cis-india.org/digital-natives/framing-digital-alternatives" class="internal-link" title="Framing the Digital Alternatives">The Digital AlterNatives Featurette </a>(PDF, 2847 KB) is a peek into the minds of digital natives as citizen activists. The 10 featured interviews of the Digital Natives video contest finalists don't fit the stereotype of the Globalized Digital Native: Young Geeks apathetic to 'Saving the Planet'. Rather, these are affirmative citizens, young, middle aged and senior, who consider digital technology as second nature for use in personal, professional or socio-political capacities.</p> <p>The 'Digital Natives with a Cause?' is a collaborative research-inquiry between The Centre for Internet &amp; Society, India and HIVOS Knowledge Programme, the Netherlands into the field of youth, change and technology in the context of the Global South. The three-year research project has resulted in the four-book collective, 'Digital AlterNatives with a Cause?' published in 2011. Read more about the project <a href="https://cis-india.org/digital-natives/blog/dnbook" class="external-link">here</a></p> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/digital-natives/framing-the-digital-alternatives'>https://cis-india.org/digital-natives/framing-the-digital-alternatives</a> </p> No publisher Nilofar Ansher Featured Web Politics Researchers at Work Digital Natives 2015-05-08T12:28:03Z Blog Entry https://cis-india.org/digital-natives/events/essay-review <b>Hivos and the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) are pleased to announce the monthly essay review event. It starts from the midnight of February 17 and ends on the midnight of February 26. Hurry! Pick any essay from the four book collective of Digital AlterNatives with a Cause? and send us your reviews.</b> <p>Hivos and CIS have consolidated their three year knowledge inquiry into the field of youth, technology and change in a four book collective “Digital AlterNatives with a cause?”.</p> <p>This collaboratively produced collective, edited by Nishant Shah and Fieke Jansen, asks critical and pertinent questions about theory and practice around 'digital revolutions' in a post MENA (Middle East - North Africa) world. It works with multiple vocabularies and frameworks and produces dialogues and conversations between digital natives, academic and research scholars, practitioners, development agencies and corporate structures to examine the nature and practice of digital natives in emerging contexts from the Global South.</p> <p>The event invites readers from around the world to pick any one essay from the books and review it in the week of 17-26 February 2012.</p> <p>Previously found reviews can be found <a href="https://cis-india.org/digital-natives/media-coverage" class="external-link">here</a>.</p> <p>For submission guidelines, please get in touch with: Nilofar Ansher (<a class="external-link" href="mailto:nilofar.ansh@gmail.com">nilofar.ansh@gmail.com</a>)</p> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/digital-natives/events/essay-review'>https://cis-india.org/digital-natives/events/essay-review</a> </p> No publisher praskrishna Event Type Digital Natives 2012-02-10T05:53:30Z Event https://cis-india.org/digital-natives/video-contest/entries/the-philosophy-of-black-white <b></b> <div id="content-core"> <div id="parent-fieldname-text-5a440584-36cf-407e-a48e-4e6347dbdd3d" class="kssattr-macro-rich-field-view kssattr-templateId-widgets/rich kssattr-atfieldname-text"> <div id="content-core"> <div id="parent-fieldname-text-b48cf75e-4d5c-4a99-b51c-718d1f1832d4" class="kssattr-atfieldname-text kssattr-templateId-widgets/rich kssattr-macro-rich-field-view"> <dl> <dt>Name</dt><dd>Joseph Gathecha<br /></dd><dt>Location</dt><dd>Nairobi, Kenya<br /></dd><dt>Age</dt><dd>27</dd><dt>Profession</dt><dd>Reporter<br /></dd> <h3>Video Proposal</h3> </dl> Black and White is a colour combination for the layman, but intensely they may be used in multiple ways or forms: as signs and symbols, as animations, decorations, and to convey myths, beliefs, taboos and many other concepts. Kibera’s slum, in the surburb of Nairobi, Kenya, is the perfect place to showcase this contrast of extremes and how digital technology is a thread connecting what I want to convey.<br /><br /> <h3>Video Genre</h3> <p>Film</p> <dl><dd>&nbsp;</dd></dl> </div> </div> </div> </div> <p> For more details visit <a href='https://cis-india.org/digital-natives/video-contest/entries/the-philosophy-of-black-white'>https://cis-india.org/digital-natives/video-contest/entries/the-philosophy-of-black-white</a> </p> No publisher gathejoe Digital Natives 2012-02-17T05:27:47Z Page