Yesterday, at the FCC's Digital Inclusion Summit, Commissioner Mignon Clyburn voiced her commitment to ensuring that all Americans have the digital literacy skills to use the web safely and effectively.

Over the past month, the Red Cross has managed to raise over $35 million dollars for the Haitian earthquake relief through $10 text message donations. As the social media world's fervent excitement over this simple way to give has died down to a hum, it might be a good time to look at what this kind of fundraising means for the small-time philanthropist and digital activist.

Digital media literacy means more than just understanding how to use Facebook or conduct an effective Google search - it means being able to use and create digital media to participate in civic life and collaborate around the issues that matter to us. It also means changing the way we think about accessing, analyzing, and evaluating media, as the web provides us with an increasing number of choices for information, news, and entertainment and complicates our media landscape with new advertising and marketing tactics.

During last month's G-20 summit in Pittsburgh, police in riot gear openly clashed with protesters on the city's streets. Protesters were arrested for offenses one can expect at a large demonstration – lobbing rocks at police cruisers, failing to comply with orders to disperse and the like. Yet one of the most highly publicized arrest made during these protests was not due to activities on the streets, but on the web.