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Digital Tourist takes a tour round Sweden  Digital Tourist is a touring conference series organized by the Swedish Media Council, the Swedish awareness centre, together with the Swedish Ministry of Culture. During a conference day the participants will learn what children and young people - the digital natives - do online. The conference series will tour Sweden with five stops, where the first one was held on December 9, 2009, in Södertälje, outside of Stockholm. The Swedish Minister of Culture, Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth, gave the opening speech.
The intention with Digital Tourist is to bridge the digital divide between generations and to teach the participating adults - the tourists - about what children and young people do online. The target audience is politicians, decision-makers, the police, social workers, teachers and persons working close to children and youth. All were represented at the premiere conference on December 9, 2009.
The program for Digital Tourist includes seminars, panel discussions and a workshop section that consists of stations where the adults are guided by youths who are showing and explaining what they do: "chat", "blog", "add", “text”, "upload" and "levelling". At the stations the adults learn to play Wii games, Guitar Hero, learn about Facebook, World of Warcraft, iPhones and blogs. There are also postgraduate students in the field of youth and media present and the adults have the opportunity to ask them or the young people questions, discuss and watch.
In Södertälje the Swedish Minister of Culture, Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth, spoke about children and youth's creativity and encouraged the guests to learn and see the opportunities in the new media. Among other speakers were Ann Katrin Agebäck, director of the Media Council, who spoke about the Council’s report on children and young people’s media habits, and Elza Dunkels, Umeå University, touching upon creating identities online. Other seminars were about World of Warcraft, small children’s media habits and web coaches. There was also a youth panel discussing media habits and a closing panel discussion about the future.
 The conference will be touring around Sweden during 2010. The next stop will be in Stockholm during Safer Internet Day 2010 and the last stop will be at the world conference "World Summit 2010" in Karlstad. To read more about World Summit, please visit: www.wskarlstad2010.se
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