About the Toolkit
"Toolkit for rights and citizenship on the web"
Information, training resources, activities and methods for social professionals
Project V.O.I.C.E. Output 1 – “Toolkit for rights and citizenship on the web” – is a web platform that provides European social workers information, training resources, activities and methods to prevent and fight digital risks and promote digital citizenship rights.
Digital technologies and social exclusion
The social disadvantage of fragile people is evident in all aspects of daily life, but the gap is particularly evident in the use of digital technologies and the web, which are now strategic for an adequate access to information, to promote a conscious use of social media, to limit the digital divide and to increase training opportunities and placement in the world of work.
The “Declaration of Internet Rights” approved in Italy in 2015 and incorporated in the joint EU Resolution at the Internet Governance Forum 2015 (UN) on the rights of the person, identifies in the Internet a universal right, and focuses on the rights of citizenship on the Net – right to access, literacy, net neutrality, privacy, etc. – with the basic premise that the protection of personal rights must prevail over profits. Internet must be open and accessible everywhere, it must promote non-discriminatory access to knowledge and information and cybersecurity.
Why the Toolkit?
The social inclusion of vulnerable individuals is also achieved through the possibility of exercising their digital citizenship rights, thanks to responsible access to technologies and protection from the dangers of the web.
Responsible access to the web (digital citizenship rights) and active citizenship (social citizenship rights) are closely connected in the promotion of social empowerment.
Who is the Toolkit for?
In this process, social professionals that support fragile people must develop new skills to better understand technology’s benefits and risks and support fragile people exercising their digital citizenship rights and be included in the digital society in a responsible and safe way.
Toolkit goals
- promote in European social workers a more complete and in-depth knowledge of the advantages and risks of the web
- develop new professional skills and working methods on digital issues for the benefit of the vulnerable categories of people
- offer tools for promoting the digital citizenship rights for people with fewer opportunities
