YOUTH 2020 - The position of young people in Slovenia

Use of information and communications technology, and the digital environment  337 in various online consultations on socio-political issues and express their opinions on them (see Figure 10.6). Figure 10.6: Share of internet users performing various civic activities, 2019, Slovenia (in %). 16-29 years All 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% Interaction with public authorities Getting information from websites of public authorities Uploading official forms Participating in online consultations or voting on civic or political matters Submitting completed forms 0% Source: Eurostat (2019) In a similar way, we can understand the data on young people’s readiness to participate in public affairs, which we obtained through the Mladina 2020 survey. The data show that over 70% of the surveyed young people have either already shared or would probably share amessage about a cur- rent social problem via their profile on one of their social networks. The same applies to monitoring political actors via social networks and web- sites. More than half of young people have already or would probably visit the website of a political party or movement and look at the profile of a politician, political party, or movement on one of their social networks. It should be noted that more than a third of young people have already done so (see Figure 10.7). Given the fact that these percentages are much higher than the percentages we knowof for conventional offline forms of political participation (see Deželan, 2015), it is worthmaking serious consideration of ways to adapt institutional policy to patterns of new youth citizenship.