Hello, Greetings from the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore. Founded in 2008, The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) is a Bangalore-based independent, non-profit, research organisation which is involved in research on the emerging field of the Internet and its relationship to the society. CIS brings together scholars, academics, students, programmers and scientists to engage in a large variety of Internet issues like governance, privacy and freedom of expression, etc. CIS works in the areas of histories of the Internet, digital natives, and a reader on the Wikipedia, enhancing higher education for the downtrodden, and accessibility for the disabled, openness, telecom and Internet governance. CIS runs different academic and research programmes and is receptive to new ideas and collaborations, projects and campaigns from the public. CIS, in collaboration with Hivos' Knowledge Programme, launched a project, Digital Natives with a Cause? in 2008. As younger generations growing up in emerging information societies learn to engage with their geo-political and socio-cultural environments, a form of technology-mediated identity, popularly dubbed as the Digital Native, has been the discussion of a growing public and intellectual debate. These digital natives are transforming the ways in which they understand themselves as well as the world around them while engaging with Internet and digital technologies. Young users of technology are moving towards a reconfiguration of the world, where questions of identity, political participation, social transformation, cultural production, education, and livelihood are being restructured. The Digital Natives Research Programme focuses on producing new knowledge frameworks, vocabularies and lexicons to understand, investigate and support these new citizens or netizens rather who shall be the agents of change in the future. After the initial research (click here for a free download), CIS will gather responses from young users of technology to help us understand, document and support different practices aimed at social transformation and political participation more efficiently. We believe that the world we live in is changing rapidly and the rise of Internet technologies has a lot to do with it. As young users of technology (as opposed to young users who use technology) adopt, adapt and use these new technologised tools to interact with their environment, new ways of effecting change emerge. This survey is an attempt to capture some of the information which gives us an insight into who the people are using these technologies, the ways in which they use them and what their perceptions and experiences are. The survey will not take more than seven minutes of your precious time and it will help us get a better sense of the way things are. Please click here to start the survey. We would also appreciate if you could share the link to the survey with your friends and relatives via your blog, tweets or other social networking pages. Your help would go a long way in enabling us to find out how the youth of today are shaping the society and influencing the political/social scenario around them. Please note that the data collected as part of the survey would be anonymous and not used for any commercial purposes. We would also acknowledge your help in preparing the final report. In case you need any further information or clarifications, please feel free to call us at +91 - 080 - 25350955 or write to us at nishant@cis-india.org With best compliments, Vishal