CyberCivics Jim Owens and Jeanna Matthews

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CyberCivicsJim Owens and Jeanna Matthews
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What is CyberCivics?

• Study of contemporary social and political issues
  that grow out of computer-science related
  technologies
• Examples Electronic voting, privacy of digital
  communications, data mining, intellectual
  property rights, digital rights management, and
  more
• Discussion of benefit to individuals and society
  as well as limitations and risks
• Curricula that engage students in hands-on
  activities that help them better understand these
  technologies

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Institute Overview

• Day 1 Overview of CyberCivics, Network Trace
  Analysis
• Day 2 Database Privacy
• Day 3 RFID and Surveillance
• Day 4 Electronic Voting
• Day 5 Computer Science Careers, Lesson Planning
  and Tools Overview

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Day 1 Overview and Networks

• Overview of CyberCivics
• Hands-on exercises with open source network
  protocol analysis software
• Hands-on exercises illustrating the weaknesses of
  typical wireless network configurations
• Network communication in the headlines

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Day 2 Database Privacy

• Readings on data mining and privacy
• Hands-on exercises writing simple database
  queries
• Hands-on exercises with inference control and
  database privacy
• Documentary No More Privacy, All About You
• Database privacy in the headlines

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Day 3 RFID and Surveillance

• Readings on RFID, video surveillance, and REAL-ID
• Hands-on exercises with RFID experiment kits
• RFID and surveillance in the headlines
• Documentary Hacking Democracy (preparation
  for Day 4)

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Day 4 Electronic Voting

• Readings on electronic voting
• Hands-on exercises with Python programming
• Hands-on exercise reading source code for
  electronic voting system and running mock
  election
• Electronic voting in the headlines

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Day 5 CS Careers, Lesson Planning and Tools

• Exploration of on-line Occupational Outlook
  Handbook
• Hands-on exercises with CyberCivics tools and
  kits (virtual machines, LiveCDs)
• Lesson planning activity and feedback

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Kits

• Materials budget to provision kits that
  teachers can check out and use
• Kits will include
• CDs with virtual machine images and LiveCDs
• Collections of readings (loose leaf for ease of
  copying)
• Hardware such as wireless access points and RFID
  kits
• Copies of relevant DVDs and books
• On-line kit supplements will contain
  downloadable files, pointers to on-line resources
  including where to buy materials, etc.