A Point of View on New Education for Smart Citizenship

Smart cities and intelligent communities have an ever-growing demand for specialized smart services, applications, and research-driven innovation. Knowledge of users’ profiles, behavior, and preferences are a potentially dangerous side effect of smart services. Citizens are usually not aware of the k...

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Main Author: Cristina Martelli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-02-01
Series:Future Internet
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/9/1/4
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spelling doaj-a78c87b9ed244235aaa19c30f48fb9162020-11-24T23:13:40ZengMDPI AGFuture Internet1999-59032017-02-0191410.3390/fi9010004fi9010004A Point of View on New Education for Smart CitizenshipCristina Martelli0Department of Statistics, Informatics and Applications, University of Florence, 50134 Firenze, ItalySmart cities and intelligent communities have an ever-growing demand for specialized smart services, applications, and research-driven innovation. Knowledge of users’ profiles, behavior, and preferences are a potentially dangerous side effect of smart services. Citizens are usually not aware of the knowledge bases generated by the IT services they use: this dimension of the contemporary and digital era sheds new light on the elements concerning the concept of citizenship itself, as it affects dimensions like freedom and privacy. This paper addresses this issue from an education system perspective, and advances a non-technical methodology for being aware and recognizing knowledge bases generated by user-service interaction. Starting from narratives, developed in natural language by unskilled smart service users about their experience, the proposed method advances an original methodology, which is identified in the conceptual models derived from these narratives, a bridge towards a deeper understanding of the informative implications of their behavior. The proposal; which is iterative and scalable; has been tested on the field and some examples of lesson contents are presented and discussed.http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/9/1/4smart educationsocial innovationstatistical information systemsdata reusetransparency
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A Point of View on New Education for Smart Citizenship
Future Internet
smart education
social innovation
statistical information systems
data reuse
transparency
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title A Point of View on New Education for Smart Citizenship
title_short A Point of View on New Education for Smart Citizenship
title_full A Point of View on New Education for Smart Citizenship
title_fullStr A Point of View on New Education for Smart Citizenship
title_full_unstemmed A Point of View on New Education for Smart Citizenship
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publisher MDPI AG
series Future Internet
issn 1999-5903
publishDate 2017-02-01
description Smart cities and intelligent communities have an ever-growing demand for specialized smart services, applications, and research-driven innovation. Knowledge of users’ profiles, behavior, and preferences are a potentially dangerous side effect of smart services. Citizens are usually not aware of the knowledge bases generated by the IT services they use: this dimension of the contemporary and digital era sheds new light on the elements concerning the concept of citizenship itself, as it affects dimensions like freedom and privacy. This paper addresses this issue from an education system perspective, and advances a non-technical methodology for being aware and recognizing knowledge bases generated by user-service interaction. Starting from narratives, developed in natural language by unskilled smart service users about their experience, the proposed method advances an original methodology, which is identified in the conceptual models derived from these narratives, a bridge towards a deeper understanding of the informative implications of their behavior. The proposal; which is iterative and scalable; has been tested on the field and some examples of lesson contents are presented and discussed.
topic smart education
social innovation
statistical information systems
data reuse
transparency
url http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/9/1/4
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