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Crucially, the outcome of being digitally fluent relates to issues of responsibility, equity and access. We all need to be able to fully participate in a digitally-enabled education system and in an increasingly digitised society. If we work with fluency in the way we use technologies, we are able to keep ourselves safe online and take full advantage of life chance opportunities such as being able to apply for work, manage our finances, or be part of our local community).

Being ‘digitally literate’ means acquiring the skills to make and create meaning, and select technologies to do so. Being fluent requires competencies and capabilities that go beyond the skill level. Someone who is digitally fluent not only selects tools and knows what to do with them, but can explain why they work in the way they do and how they might adapt what they do if the context were to change.  

I think what we're collectively, globally, realizing is that digital citizenship actually brings youth back into the online-safety discussion (if they were ever really there). It's about empowerment as much as protection (yes, it's protective too – see this). So it's more relevant to and respectful of them as active agents for their own, their friends', and their online communities' good.

But there still isn't complete consensus on its definition.

digital citizenship needs at least to drive the youth-online-safety discussion.