[Reader-list] Survey: Digital Natives with a Cause?

[rohitrellan at aol.in]

Hi , 
 
Greetings from the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore 
(http://www.cis-india.org/). 
 
CIS, in collaboration with Hivos' Knowledge Programme 
(http://www.hivos.net/), launched a project, Digital Natives with a 
Cause?(http://www.cis-india.org/research/dn/dnrep) in 2008. As younger 
generations growing up in emerging information societies learn to 
engage with their geo-political and socio-cultural environments, a form 
of technology-mediated identity, popularly dubbed as the Digital 
Native, has been the discussion of a growing public and intellectual 
debate. These digital natives are transforming the ways in which they 
understand themselves as well as the world around them while engaging 
with Internet and digital technologies. Young users of technology are 
moving towards a reconfiguration of the world, where questions of 
identity, political participation, social transformation, cultural 
production, education, and livelihood are being restructured. The 
Digital Natives Research Programme focuses on producing new knowledge 
frameworks, vocabularies and lexicons to understand, investigate and 
support these new citizens or netizens rather who shall be the agents 
of change in the future. After the initial research 
(http://www.cis-india.org/publications/cis/nishant/dnrep.pdf/view), CIS 
will gather responses from young users of technology to help us 
understand, document and support different practices aimed at social 
transformation and political participation more efficiently. 
 
We believe that the world we live in is changing rapidly and the rise 
of Internet technologies has a lot to do with it. As young users of 
technology (as opposed to young users who use technology) adopt, adapt 
and use these new technologised tools to interact with their 
environment, new ways of effecting change emerge. This survey is an 
attempt to capture some of the information which gives us an insight 
into who the people are using these technologies, the ways in which 
they use them and what their perceptions and experiences are. 
 
The survey will not take more than seven minutes of your precious time 
and it will help us get a better sense of the way things are. Please 
click here 
(http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dG9reUVvQ0w4d1ZER3lKOUtF
 
anZMUnc6MA) to start the survey. We would also appreciate if you could 
share the link to the survey with your friends and relatives via your 
blog, tweets or other social networking pages. Your help would go a 
long way in enabling us to find out how the youth of today are shaping 
the society and influencing the political/social scenario around them. 
Please note that the data collected as part of the survey would be 
anonymous and not used for any commercial purposes. We would also 
acknowledge your help in preparing the final report. 
 
In case you need any further information or clarifications, please feel 
free to call us at +91 - 080 - 25350955 or write to us at 
nishant at cis-india.org. 
 
With best compliments, 
Prasad