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Guest Editorial – Flying with a Digital Passport

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Ampere Association

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The concept of digital citizenship has always been difficult to describe in simple terms. One of the original ideas behind digital citizenship arose among a group of school administrators who were nervous about a scary new thing called the World Wide Web.

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They did what any adult does when they want to protect kids from something unfamiliar, and their risk assessment instincts kicked in. An approach was developed around a sense of personal responsibility, in which any given web user takes control of their experiences, actions, and all the inevitable consequences of using the internet.

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