Blamed for our very refusal to play a bigger role in the civic realm apart from once every lustrum or so milling around the polling booth with the rest of the extras.
In Europe, the state's leading role in areas such as higher education, health care and civic amenities such as museums may have discouraged private philanthropy.
The Association For International Sport for All (TAFISA) and UNESCO signed a partnership on 20 October 2011 which focuses on the role of youth in national development strategies and the importance of their civic engagement, particularly through sport.
They should trust those in need and closest to the problems to play a powerful role in crafting and carrying out solutions, and they should provide support for civic engagement, policy advocacy and community organizing so that organizations working with and on behalf of marginalized communities can participate effectively in the public square.
Clearly there is a role for businesses and government to protect citizen and consumer data, but individual users also have a civic responsibility to protect our own devices and the networks we access.