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HELPING CITIZENS TO EMBRACE THE DIGITAL.


WE TAKE AN INCLUSIVE APPROACH TO THE DESIGN OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES THAT SUPPORT
‘SMART’, ‘DATA-RICH’ LIVING.

Our mission

“We have been enjoying making, coding and playing with the Connected Kid’s Club
at Meadow Well Connected.”

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“I think I can safely say that everyone in the Men’s Group has thoroughly
enjoyed working on this project.”

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“Decisions on how data is collected, stored and used, are having major long-term
environmental, economic, and social impacts!”

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£9M


RESEARCH CENTRE





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COLLABORATING INSTITUTIONS





32K


CITIZEN CONTACTS





OUR MISSION

The Centre for Digital Citizens (CDC) takes an inclusive, participatory approach
to the design and evaluation of new technologies and services that support
‘smart; ‘data-rich' living in urban, rural and coastal communities.

We work with citizens and partners to co-design sustainable ‘Digital Social
Innovations’ that ensure technologies applications support diverse communities
and have long-lasting social value and impact beyond the life of the Centre.






CHALLENGE AREAS


THE CENTRE FOR DIGITAL CITIZENS FOCUSES ON
FOUR CRITICAL CITIZEN CHALLENGE AREAS.


AGELESS CITIZEN

How can technology support non-age biased learning, growth and engagement
opportunities across the entire life course?

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CONNECTED CITIZEN

How will future citizens remain digitally connected with each other, with public
services and with the socio-political issues of the day?

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SAFE CITIZEN

How can digital technologies support fair, secure and equitable societies?

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WELL CITIZEN

How can data and digital connections help us to live well?

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Explore the Challenge Areas


OUR ACTIVITIES


CO-CREATION OF RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

The framework will use design-led ‘initiation mechanisms’ such as participatory
design workshops, hackathons, community events, citizen labs, open innovation
and co-production platform experiments to support the co-creation of research
activities.




OUR ACTIVITIES


ENGAGED CITIZEN COMMISSIONING FRAMEWORK

Driving our programme to address these challenges is our ‘Engaged Citizen
Commissioning Framework’. This framework will support citizens’ active
engagement in the co-creation of research and critical inquiry.




OUR ACTIVITIES


INNOVATION FELLOWS

Our Innovation Fellows, postdoctoral researchers, will engage in a 24-month
social innovation programme within the Centre for Digital Citizens. They will
pilot Digital Social Innovation projects as part of highly interdisciplinary,
multi-stakeholder teams.




OUR ACTIVITIES


OUTCOMES OF THE CENTRE FOR DIGITAL CITIZENS

The outcome of these pilots will be the development of further collaborative
bids, venture capital pitches, spin-outs and/or social enterprises. In this way
the Centre will act as a catalyst for future innovation-focused Digital Economy
activity.





"THIS CENTRE WILL ALLOW US TO EXPLORE HOW CITIZENS AND COMMUNITIES CAN BE A PART
OF THE DESIGN OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES THAT WORK BETTER FOR THEM, FROM FINDING
WAYS TO USE SHARED PERSONAL DATA TO CREATING CITIZEN-LED DIGITAL PUBLIC
SERVICES."


- DAVID KIRK, PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR


LATEST POSTS

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CDC LAUNCHES NEW REPORT TACKLING PLATFORM GOVERNANCE INEQUALITIES IN
COLLABORATION WITH THE WORLD WIDE WEB FOUNDATION

What would platform governance look like if users affected by it could get a
seat at the table to design the policies that will govern their social media
experience? We talked with Innovation Fellow Carolina Are.

18 Jul 2023 Read


CIVIC PROBES: A METHOD FOR DESIGNING CIVIC TECHNOLOGIES WITH COMMUNITIES

We talked with Ian Johnson and Vasilis Vlachokyriakos about their new work on
Civic Probes.

3 Jul 2023 Read


ERICAR: CO-CREATING AN ANTENATAL CARE INFORMATION RESOURCE WITH CZECH-SLOVAK
ROMA WOMEN

Researchers Caro Claisse, Mabel Lie and Zaneta Karchnakova talk about their
experience of working with a group of Czech-Slovak Roma women to co-create an
antenatal care community information resource.

21 Jun 2023 Read


CIVIC PROBES

Civic probes is a methodological approach that aims at ensuring that digital
technology and innovation respond to important societal concerns – such as
extreme weather, power cuts, and flooding as well as loneliness, social
cohesion, and equitable civic participation.

22 May 2023 Read


EXPLORING THE POTENTIAL OF VR AS A SPACE FOR CIVIC DISCOURSE

We talked with Innovation Fellow Gavin Wood about his work inside social virtual
reality and the Metaverse.

21 Feb 2023 Read


TEACHING CHILDREN ABOUT ROAD SAFETY BY PROGRAMMING POCKET COMPUTERS

This project will help children be safer around our roads.

13 Feb 2023 Read


CENTRE FOR DIGITAL CITIZENS - DECEMBER NEWSLETTER

While our starting efforts with the CDC were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic
in 2021, in 2022 the Centre really began to come to life. Find out what we've
been up to over the last year.

19 Jan 2023 Read


PRESENTING RESEARCH ON ‘AUTOMATED POWERLESSNESS’ AT INTERDISCIPLINARY
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

Innovation Fellow Carolina Are talks about presenting her research on 'automated
powerlessness' on online platforms such as Instagram and TikTok at international
conferences.

15 Dec 2022 Read


NEW CONSULTATION GIVES CUSTOMERS A CHANCE TO SHAPE THE FUTURE OF METRO

Tyne and Wear Metro customers are getting a new opportunity to shape the future
of the service.

7 Dec 2022 Read


MINIPUBLICS - DEEPENING PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN DEMOCRATIC DECISION MAKING

We talked with Innovation Fellow Martin King about his work on minipublics -
citizen assemblies, citizen juries and online deliberation.

16 Nov 2022 Read


RESEARCH CO-PRODUCTION WITH RECOCO TO UNDERSTAND COMMUNITY-BASED SUPPORT FOR
WELLBEING

We talked with the Well Citizen Challenge Area team about their project with the
Recovery College Collective (ReCoCo), developing understanding of peer support
and lived experience of mental health through visual-based and co-creation
research.

28 Sep 2022 Read


WEAPONISED FLAGGING AGAINST ‘GREY AREA’ CONTENT ON TIKTOK AND INSTAGRAM

This research investigates Instagram and TikTok’s approach to governing
malicious flagging against ‘grey area’ content, or content in the public
interest or covered by freedom of expression rights or that is otherwise legal
offline.

8 Sep 2022 Read


PARTNERS

BBCBenfield SchoolCentre for LifeDigital CatapultThe Edge FoundationFuture
GovGeorge Stephenson High SchoolGoogleGreat North Care
RecordIFRCMicrosoftMozillaNorth East Local EnterpriseNewcastle City CouncilNHS
DigitalNational Innovation Centre for AgeingNorth of Tyne Combined
AuthorityNorthstar VenturesNorthumbrian WaterPlace ChangersPlan DigitalRight
Question InstituteSunderland City CouncilSunderland Software CityTraidcraft
ExchangeVoiceVoluntary Organisations' Network North EastWEAWest End Schools'
TrustYOTIYouth Focus North East

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The Centre for Digital Citizens is made possible by EPSRC funding under the
project code EP/T022582/1


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