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 However, in a high competitive economy, there is a sort of «[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-fulfilling_prophecy|self-fulfilling prophecy]]» in the field of technology that doesn't reflect rational choices and could be dangerous for the european societies if their citizens don't react and reclaim a right to shape the on-going transformations. A [[glossary:social-ranking-system|social ranking system]] like the one experimented in China is not really what european democracies should implement, just because they fear to lose the economical competition. Monopolistic firma like Facebook or Google should not be allowed to manipulate their users at a very fine level with [[glossary:algorithm|algorithms]] which collect almost everything about them. Hate speeches and [[glossary:fake-news|fake news]] should not be advantaged just because they bring more clicks and are good for the advertisement business. Privacy in the internet age should not be a new privilege which could be obtained through money or education, whereas other on-line consumers would pay their «free» access with their own data, not even knowing that they are targets of [[glossary:data-broker|data brokers]]. What's more, the question of labour and related income is now becoming very important in a time when a large part of the jobs are to be automatized or transformed through AI and robotization. Gig [[glossary:platform|platforms]] that hire low paid «free lancers» and destroy local economies should be regulated and alternatives should be proposed and sustained by public policies ([[glossary:platform|platform]] cooperatives, for example). However, in a high competitive economy, there is a sort of «[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-fulfilling_prophecy|self-fulfilling prophecy]]» in the field of technology that doesn't reflect rational choices and could be dangerous for the european societies if their citizens don't react and reclaim a right to shape the on-going transformations. A [[glossary:social-ranking-system|social ranking system]] like the one experimented in China is not really what european democracies should implement, just because they fear to lose the economical competition. Monopolistic firma like Facebook or Google should not be allowed to manipulate their users at a very fine level with [[glossary:algorithm|algorithms]] which collect almost everything about them. Hate speeches and [[glossary:fake-news|fake news]] should not be advantaged just because they bring more clicks and are good for the advertisement business. Privacy in the internet age should not be a new privilege which could be obtained through money or education, whereas other on-line consumers would pay their «free» access with their own data, not even knowing that they are targets of [[glossary:data-broker|data brokers]]. What's more, the question of labour and related income is now becoming very important in a time when a large part of the jobs are to be automatized or transformed through AI and robotization. Gig [[glossary:platform|platforms]] that hire low paid «free lancers» and destroy local economies should be regulated and alternatives should be proposed and sustained by public policies ([[glossary:platform|platform]] cooperatives, for example).
  
-All these questions are part of a «digital literacy» which aims at providing insights in the main debates of the digitalisation, so that trainers for adult education could use them with their trainees to empower them in this ever changing «digitized» world. The purpose is to give them the will to take part in the debate and to articulate the rights they have to defend (human rights to privacy, transparency and trust in institutions, sovereignty upon their own lifes) in face of the new challenges of technological and economical changes.+All these questions are part of a «{{:digital_literacy.pdf|digital literacy}}» which aims at providing insights in the main debates of the digitalisation, so that trainers for adult education could use them with their trainees to empower them in this ever changing «digitized» world. The purpose is to give them the will to take part in the debate and to articulate the rights they have to defend (human rights to privacy, transparency and trust in institutions, sovereignty upon their own lifes) in face of the new challenges of technological and economical changes.
  
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-Author: Dr. Isabelle Bohnke for COOPETIC+**Author:** Dr. Isabelle Bohnke for COOPETIC
  
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-This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the authors (text and teaching materials) and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. 
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-This text is published under the terms of the Creative Commons License:https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ 
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-The name of the author(s) shall be as follows: Author: Dr. Isabelle Bohnke, COOPETIC, funding source: Erasmus+ Programme for Adult Education of the European Union. 
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