Diseño de un programa de Desarrollo de Habilidades Informacionales aplicadas a la información pública para fomentar la ciudadanía digital en adolescentes

摘要

Education in citizen participation must be provided from a very early stage in those spaces where young boys and girls live together with people with whom they share social links, such as their home, their neighborhood or their school. For children growing up in Bogotá and attending public or private schools, the first contact with citizen participation, beyond their classes on democracy and the country’s political constitution, takes place when they vote to elect their fellow student council’s representatives. ududOver the last years the (information) literacy issue has gained space in both individual and collective efforts to make it a basic social, democratic, and participative matter within the all embracing framework marked by the society-technology relationship. In this sense, information literacy is also an attempt (beyond the problem of literal access to public information) to foster critical thinking vis-à-vis curriculum contents.ududThus, we consider that dealing with the concept of citizen participation goes beyond its topicality and should be developed not only from the public library but also through initiatives that arise from society’s actual concerns in order to awaken the participants’ interest.ududTo achieve the aforesaid, herein we present the design and results of a program that aims at developing information skills to access, ponder, and use public information in order to encourage citizen participation. Keeping in mind that our society is now facing challenges that call for citizens capable of hurdling them, it is essential to start developing such skills from a very early age to allow children, youngsters and their communities to behave and be recognized as citizens who are responsible for their actions in both the real and the digital world.