RIGHTS.AI

In this project talk to children and young people about their own experiences, expectations and imaginations of generative AI (GenAI). Engaging our EU Kids Online partners and partners in Brazil, Kenya, Thailand and India we are conducting in-depth interviews with children in over six countries, providing an international understanding of GenAI's impact on children around the world. 

Project lead: Mariya Stoilova.

Exclusion of (vulnerable) Children in Digital Inclusion Policies (Chil'InDIP)

Digital policies are designed to support and propel regions and countries into an era that is increasingly digital. Unfortuntely, previous findings suggest that children are wholly excluded from these policies, which could exacerbate existing societal issues.

This project will collate and analyse digital inclusion policies from around the world to assess how children are mentioned, or even if they are mentioned at all.

Project lead: Ellen Helsper

Mapping the impact of General Comment No. 25

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’s General comment No. 25 was adopted in 2021 and the DFC are completing systematic tracking of the comment's impact.

This could give us valuable insight into the enablers and barriers of implementing such a comment, and how legislation effects the rights of children. 

Project lead: Kim R. Sylwander 

Children's rights by design

This work stream addresses the gap between policies, principles and design for children’s rights by prototyping and testing a child-rights-based design tool with approximately 30 designers and developers from both the Global North and South, drawing on the Digital Futures Commission’s Child Rights by Design (Livingstone & Pothong, 2023).

Project lead: Sonia Livingstone

Consultant: Kruakae Pothong

Children’s rights in relation to the digital environment: Spotlight on Africa

The key challenges and opportunities that children on the African continent experience in relation to their use of a variety of digital platforms, services and apps is rarely explored. This qualitative project will bridge some of this gap by investigating the experiences of 199 children and young people living in six nations on the African continent (Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa and Tanzania).

Project leads: Amanda Third and Louisa Welland, Young & Resilient Research Centre, Western Sydney University

Children's visions of digital futures

This project will engage 5Rights Youth Ambassadors around the world to explore their visions of digital futures. The project adopts a co-design participatory futures methdology to amplify children's voices to impact research and policy.

Project Lead: Kim R. Sylwander

EdTech and AI: Case studies on AI use

This project will use a child-rights framework to evaluate how children use AI, looking to inform recommendations in reglating AI-driven EdTech. This will assess whether the expectations set by Big Tech companies reflect the live experience.  

Consultant: Ayça Atabey

Impact of regulation (2) 

Last years report, Impact of regulation on children's digital lives, explored the privacy and safety changes of big-tech companies and the relationship between their statements on legislation and their actions. The second stage looks to deepen this research, perhaps to explore how the legislation change impacts children. 

Consultant: Steve Wood