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 * Digital Citizenship vs. Piracy **

**INTRODUCTION ** Every single day a huge group of people around the world invest a lot of time, money, intellectual knowledge and human talent to develop, design or modify hardware and software to make our life easier. Some of them work in big companies, other ones do it by themselves. However, their work is at risk to be copied illegally and if this happens, they won’t receive the benefits from their work. The question is… **//Who can be affected when piracy in technology appears?//** **//Is it possible stop piracy in technology? How?//** **TASK ** Working in groups of four you will prepare and share **//a digital collection of information//** (web sources, images, videos, news, current events, statistics, etc.). You will collaborate to enrich this Wiki by adding as much information as possible to cover all roles point of view. Finally, you will write **a blog article to answer the essential question.**

** PROCEDURE: ** **1.-** Define roles and responsibilities:
 * **Anthropologist: **You will focus on social impact, you are thinking in consequences for humanity as a group. Based on your research you should write a blog article about piracy in technology and it's social impact.
 * **Lawyer: **You will focus on legal issues, you are interested in protecting author’s rights and punishing those who take advantage of other people’s work. Based on your research you should write a blog article to promote copyrights emphasizing legal punishment in Mexico and USA.
 * **Communications specialist: **You will focus on informing people, you are sure that eliminating ignorance about copyright will reduce the piracy problem. You will write two blog articles to inform the //10 tips about copyrights that everyone should know. //<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> One article about USA laws, it should be done in English and other for Mexican laws, it should be in Spanish.
 * <span style="color: #001e82; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> **Technology Development Expert:** You will focus on technology improvement. You know that new technologies are based on prior prototypes. You will write a blog article about innovation, r <span style="color: #001e82; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">edesign and piracy.

<span style="color: #001e82; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">**2.-** Research for information about piracy in technology focusing on USA, Mexico and Latin America. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #001e82; display: block; font-family: verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">**3.-** Enrich this wiki by sharing your background information, so add as much as possible in Resources Page. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #001e82; display: block; font-family: verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">**4.-** Read carefully our general resources, then select two additional resources listed under your role. Take notes analyzing facts needed to answer the essential questions. **<span style="color: #001e82; font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">5.- **<span style="color: #001e82; font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"> Using www.kidblog.org you will write your blog article answering the essential questions from your role point of view.
 * //Who can be affected when piracy in technology appears?//
 * //Is it possible stop piracy in technology? How?//

** Now you are an important piece of our learning community... Well done!!! **

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 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #002060; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Be 400 words long as minimum.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #002060; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Answer the essential questions, it should be your personal opinion from your role point of view and based on facts.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #002060; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Include an introductory paragraph, main idea and conclusions.
 * <span style="color: #002060; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Include images to enhance information.
 * <span style="color: #002060; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Include your main sources of information respecting copyrights.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #002060; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Be published in our Piracy Project Blog.