Debates for Future: Youth as Digital Citizens: Before, During and After the Pandemic

June 10, 2010

The pandemic enabled the massification of the new digital world: e-learning, e-government, e-commerce, e-culture, but also digital inequalities, more fake news and conspiracies, strengthening of authoritarian tendencies. Did the increased use of digital technologies empower digital citizens?

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The debate will focus on three major topics:

Digital citizens for a better future: what does the youth want to change in the previous ’normal’ and what is the new post-pandemic world it aspires to?

E-teaching & e-learning: digital school & university – the dream of the digital natives or an imperfect version of a true education?

Digital activism –how to get mobilized during lockdown and what are the causes that inspire the (post)pandemic generation?

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Moderator: Vanina Ninova, Policy and Citizens Observatory

Speaker: Alexandra Mircheva, co-founder of Zone 21 - skills development hub; expert in the field of youth participation, education and training

Discussants: Ivaylo Dinev, Vanessa Andonova and Katerina Zaharieva