Empowering Digital Citizens
Bhupinder Singh, Sahil Lal, Manmeet Kaur Arora · Advances in higher education and professional development book series · 2025
The emergence of the digital revolution has placed an impeccable demand on the education sector around the globe to foster digital citizenship. The educators lack effective and necessary vocational training to impart digital citizenship skills to adolescents. At the global level, the cyber-security laws and regulations vary significantly across various jurisdictions leading to non-uniformity in implementation of consistent standards for digital citizenship. The core premise of the study proposes to encapsulate the complexities in fostering digital citizenship in the education industry globally. This chapter focuses on the addressing the legal and social challenges with regards digital citizenship in the education sector, which entails a collective effort and multifaceted collaboration among educational community, legislators, technology corporations, etc. to provide for a more effective and inclusive digital world for society.