Digital citizen in a resilience society

Abstract

Nowadays we cannot speak of a society without linking it to instant, global and, digital knowledge. Since 2001, Information Society Technology (1ST) associated with a new type of citizens — the digital natives — provoked severe changes to which not only countries, regions, and society, but also individuals, are trying to adapt in a race still not finished. Policies focus on smart growth through the development of knowledge and innovation as a starting point to accomplish the process. The process of adaptation of any digital innovation to local and global challenges makes from resilience a must in a global society. The success of a resilience society comes from the hand of those individuals that form the society. If we live in a digital society growing in digital possibilities as the technology continues improving, those individuals will be evolved digital natives fully experienced and updated because they have grown up in a discovery-driven learning environment. For a resilient society it is crucial to get to know how its new individuals are learning new habits, abilities and capabilities and how they are using them, so that it will be feasible to help them to solve problems still not known with solutions not even imagined. The present work tries to define the new digital citizen that will be fully able to adapt himself to new challenges and quickly recover from old ones.