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Last Updated29/09/2024

Hōhepa Canterbury

Hōhepa Canterbury is a vibrant community of people with intellectual disabilities who develop and deliver quality, innovative services that encourage people to live fully engaged lives.

Digi citizens framework and assessment tool

Hōhepa Canterbury’s Digi Citizens Framework (and associated tools) are designed to educate and empower digital users, specifically disabled people, their whānau, support teams and educators.

Through using the Framework and tools, people can evaluate their existing knowledge and identify learning opportunities and areas where they may need additional support. We are anticipating that people using the Digi Citizens Framework will tailor the way it’s applied to suit the individual.

Hōhepa Canterbury are collaborating with both Netsafe and People First around promoting the Digi Citizens Framework and accompanying tools as they are released.

The framework and tools

The framework, along with the full suite of tools, can be found by following the links below.

Hōhepa and Netsafe recognise that this is just the beginning of a journey to empower all people with intellectual disabilities to be successful digital users.

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Digi citizens framework

Here you'll find more information on the framework as well as guidance on how to implement it.

Digi Citizens Framework

The framework and associated detail, including the goal of the framework and process for development, challenges  and guiding principles.

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EasyRead Version

An EasyRead version of the Digi Citizens Framework (created by makeiteasy.org.nz)

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Implementation process

An overview to implementation, with a focus on: – whānau – support teams

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Tools to support the framework

Digi Citizens Overview

To be used to help explain the concepts and the “WHY”, “WHAT” and “HOW” of digital citizenship

Digi Citizens EasyRead

An overview covering the concepts of and the why, what and how of digital citizenship, presented in an EasyRead version (created by makeiteasy.org.nz).

Digi citizens scenarios

Examples of fictional people and how the “how am I doing” tool has been applied.

Scenarios EasyRead

Examples of fictional people and how the “how am I doing” tool has been applied, presented in an EasyRead format (created by makeiteasy.org.nz).

"How am I doing?" tool

The tool used to work out where people are in their journey to being a successful digital citizen and where they would like to grow and develop.

"How am I doing?" questions

Prompts to help ascertain where a person may be in their journey to being a successful digital citizen.

Questions - EasyRead

Prompts to help ascertain where a person may be in their journey to being a successful digital citizen - presented in an EasyRead format (created by makeiteasy.org.nz).

Strategies and resources

A starting place of strategies and resources that can be used to support someone on their digital journey – this list is a work in progress to fill gaps identified.

Digi citizens plan

A document used to outline the agreed plan made with a person on how they will progress their digital journey

Feedback

Hōhepa Canterbury is open to feedback on the Digi Citizens Framework and tools, as they are very much designed to be living documents.

Please be encouraged to send any feedback, questions or comments to the Project Lead, Sarah Kinley:

[email protected].