Digital society: A computing science prospective

Abstract

Unprecedented connectivity over Internet has given rise to digital society where individuals turn to netizens in cyberspace. The support that computing science can offer enabling netizens to active citizens is of interest for computing professionals. From computing science perspective, this paper addresses some of the issues like modelling a netizen, communication, pressure group creation, electronic voting, law making and education for digital society; scopes the research challenges the issues offer.