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Last Updated11/07/2025
Hōhepa Canterbury(https://www.hohepacanterbury.com/) is a vibrant community of people with intellectual disabilities who develop and deliver quality, innovative services that encourage people to live fully engaged lives.
Hōhepa Canterbury’s Digi Citizens Framework (and associated tools) are designed to educate and empower digital users, specifically disabled people, their whānau, support teams and educators.
Through using the Framework and tools, people can evaluate their existing knowledge and identify learning opportunities and areas where they may need additional support. We are anticipating that people using the Digi Citizens Framework will tailor the way it’s applied to suit the individual.
Hōhepa Canterbury are collaborating with both Netsafe and People First around promoting the Digi Citizens Framework and accompanying tools as they are released.
The framework, along with the full suite of tools, can be found by following the links below.
Hōhepa and Netsafe recognise that this is just the beginning of a journey to empower all people with intellectual disabilities to be successful digital users.
To be used to help explain the concepts and the “WHY”, “WHAT” and “HOW” of digital citizenship
An overview covering the concepts of and the why, what and how of digital citizenship, presented in an EasyRead version (created by makeiteasy.org.nz).
Examples of fictional people and how the “how am I doing” tool has been applied.
Examples of fictional people and how the “how am I doing” tool has been applied, presented in an EasyRead format (created by makeiteasy.org.nz).
The tool used to work out where people are in their journey to being a successful digital citizen and where they would like to grow and develop.
Prompts to help ascertain where a person may be in their journey to being a successful digital citizen.
Prompts to help ascertain where a person may be in their journey to being a successful digital citizen - presented in an EasyRead format (created by makeiteasy.org.nz).
A starting place of strategies and resources that can be used to support someone on their digital journey – this list is a work in progress to fill gaps identified.
A document used to outline the agreed plan made with a person on how they will progress their digital journey
Hōhepa Canterbury is open to feedback on the Digi Citizens Framework and tools, as they are very much designed to be living documents.
Please be encouraged to send any feedback, questions or comments to the Project Lead, Sarah Kinley:
sarah.kinley@hohepacanterbury.com(mailto:sarah.kinley@hohepacanterbury.com).