Digital Citizen (Cidadao Digital) is a mixture of capacity building and creative labs that aims to inspire, empower and support the protagonism of young people, by train the trainer model, to foster online safety, well-being, and media/digital literacy activities. In 2020 we trained 15 youth ambassadors who impacted more than 97,000 students and 61,000 educators from public schools during the COVID-19 outbreak in Brazil. As of December 2020, we had promoted 660 remote activities, such as online classes, Whatsapp activities, online games, video teasers, and live stream/open meetings, in 19 different Brazilian States. Partnerships were essential throughout the project, with 234 partners joining or organizing activities with us, particularly public schools, NGOs, and public education departments, as well as private companies and federal representatives. Our main goals achieved with success: empower teenagers from public schools; support educators with an e-learning course and educational materials; provide capacity building, mentoring and resources to youth ambassadors, including a scholarship to support their activities with teenagers; and promote online events to highlight best activities to policy and local decision-makers.

https://www.cidadaodigital.org.br

• Brazil

• Youth
• Women
• People with disabilities

Yes. Based on the train trainer model, our core methodology of youth training is replicable since it is based on webinars, online mentoring, and challenges of online content creation. Challenges are replicable and adaptable to different contexts and designed to help young people train their communication and education skills on the themes of the project. The Action Toolkit, our guidebook for activities, is also adaptable -- we already have English and Spanish versions -- and provides a full range of ideas for educational activities, both in-person and remotely. Finally, the educators e-learning course is also replicable and easily adaptable, following local issues and existing projects on the region dealing with the themes of the project.

The full version of activities at a larger scale can't be the same without the scholarship for youth ambassadors after the project, but we have youth leaders able to keep sharing information and promoting awareness around privacy, misinformation, well-being, and human rights protection on digital environments. With all open source material available to youth, teenagers, educators, and policymakers, the project can still produce some impact to promote citizenship in the context of Information Society. The project also had some formal agreements with public education departments that included the theme and materials of the project in their activities agenda. One example is the educational material produced for some public educational TV channels that keep broadcasting the project's content in the long term.

Yes. The project contextualizes and translates many WSIS values to groups of non-experts, especially teenagers, young people, and educators. Translation intends to connect the policy level to the day-to-day lives of those people, showing them the relevance of critical thinking over ICT use, exceptionally regarding privacy, information, and the need for an inclusive online ecosystem for all. We highlight the C4 Action Line - Capacity Building, mainly by 1) promoting e-literacy skills to young people, 2) having a specific approach to empower girls and other disadvantaged and vulnerable groups, 3) developing new, innovative ways of e-learning, also by using smartphone applications accessible for low-connectivity communities. When it comes to the C5 Action Line - Building confidence and security in the use of ICTs, we indicate 1) the promotion of user education and awareness about online privacy, particularly to teenagers, 2) sharing good practices in the field of information security and network security, particularly to educators.