Digital Citizenship

What is digital citizenship?

According to ACMA digital citizenship also known as cybersmart citizenship 'is about confident and positive engagement with digital technology. A cybersmart citizen is a person with the skills and knowledge to effectively use digital technologies to participate in society, to communicate with others, and to create and consume digital content'.

The Digital Citizen will follow six tenets of citizenship.

1. Respect yourself

2. Protect yourself

3. Respect others

4. Protect others

5. Respect intellectual property

6. Protect intellectual property

Lee Crockett the founder of 'Fluency 21'

Ensuring Online Safety

Choose Consciously

• Protect your computer and your accounts: Keep all software current with automatic updating and install legitimate antivirus and antispyware software.

Know the online world

• Look for signs that a webpage is secure and legitimate. Keep your personal information safe by checking for evidence of encryption, meaning a web address with https (“s” stands for secure), and a closed padlock beside it.

Engage positively

• Share your primary email address and instant messaging name only with people you know in person and with reputable organisations. No matter where or how people access the Internet, exercising positive online behaviour should be a part of our daily online routine.

Be proactive

• If a stranger contacts you be sure to:

- Ignore the person

- tell someone about it

- make it a teaching point for future awareness of online behaviour