The Spotlight Stage SPL10
For Cross-Sector Development – Building Digital Capacity
Date Friday, Dec 2 Time – RoomPotsdam III
How can we contribute to strong digital and web literate societies? Are you convinced that your learners are ready to become part of a global community of creators – not only consumers – of content? Let’s speak about how we can increase the impact of how we build digital capacity for the future, today. Join the conversation with social & educational technologist Josie Fraser and Mozilla’s executive director Mark Surman and hear their take on universal digital literacy, identity, skills and the importance of communities.
Moderators
Josie Fraser
ICT Strategy Lead (Children's Capital), Social and Educational Technologist, UK
Josie Fraser is a Social and Educational Technologist who has worked across education sectors, with governments, commercial service providers and not for profit organisations, developing innovative and effective practice in the use of technology to support learning and teaching.
Between 2010-2016, she lead the technology strand of Leicester City Council’s £340million Building Schools for the Future Programme - setting, promoting and delivering an agenda for educational transformation in relation to the use of technology within schools. Her work developing school workforce digital literacy, and introducing open education licences and practices to the compulsory education sector has been recognised internationally.
She has worked on behalf of Childnet International to produce national cyberbullying guidance for both Labour and Conservative UK governments.
Since 2015 she has served as a board member of Wikimedia UK, a charity dedicated to supporting access to knowledge for all, promoting engagement with Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia, Wiki Data, and the Wikimedia Commons.
She blogs at Social Tech and you can follow her on Twitter as @josiefraser
Links
http://fraser.typepad.com/socialtech
Mark Surman
Executive Director, Mozilla Foundation, USA
The web is one of our most valuable public resources -- it’s Mark Surman’s job to protect it. Mark serves as Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation, a global community that does everything from making Firefox to taking stands on issues like online privacy. Mark’s biggest focus is building the movement side of Mozilla: rallying the citizens of the web, building alliances with likeminded organizations and leaders, and growing the open internet movement. Before Mozilla, Mark was the Managing Director of telecentre.org and president of boutique consulting firm Commons Group. In 2007, he was awarded the prestigious Shuttleworth Foundation fellowship, where he explored how to apply open source approaches to philanthropy. Mark lives in Toronto with his wife Tonya, founding Executive Director of the Centre for Social Innovation, and his sons Tristan and Ethan.