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Pilot Project: Digital Literacy in Senior Australians Challenge

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4 is to “Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.”

The Australian Government has initiatives that are aimed at increasing the confidence, skills, and online safety of older Australians, however many Australians still struggle with their digital literacy and skills.

Using Curtin University’s Global Challenge platform, teams of older Australians will come together to attempt to solve this social problem. This team problem-solving approach will develop participants digital literacy, skills, knowledge, and through digital connections promote their personal wellbeing.

The program will run for 4 weeks, and over the course team members will explore this problem, propose solutions, and create a video. Training and support in the use of the challenge platform is provided and people of all skill levels are encouraged to participate.

The following table explains the challenge in more detail.

Digital Literacy in Senior Australians Challenge: Social Project
1.	What digital literacy problems do senior Australians have? Working in teams’ participants will brainstorm this issue.
	In teams, participants will select ONE digital literacy problem that they would like to solve. Participants will define the problem and provide examples that will help explain their problem.
2.	Participants will brainstorm other people’s perspectives, and the social and political issues surrounding their problem.
3.	Participants will research existing government (federal, state, and local) and non-government organisations that have existing initiatives that may address their problem.
4.	Participants will propose solutions for their problem.
	To help participants select the best solution, the teams will develop selection criteria that they will use to evaluate the various possible solutions.
	Participants will evaluate their proposed solutions against their selection criteria and include existing government initiatives in their evaluation.
5.	Participants will finally select a solution and create a 2-minute video that explains their problem, and how their proposed solution may assist in solving their problem.