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Youth engagement

The Digital Futures for Children centre (DFC) collaborates with the 5Rights Global Youth Ambassadors Programme and its 200+ youth members from 52 countries

The 5Rights Youth Ambassador Programme looks for children and young people across the world who want to shape the digital world for the better and push tech companies to improve their practices. People aged between 13 to 22 can apply to the programme. If you are interested, please fill out this form.

Through this collaboration, we consult children and young people:

  • To listen to their views about their digital lives, and engage with them about priorities for change.
  • To learn from and act on their insights in designing our research and recommendations.
  • To co-create child-friendly resources that reflect their perspectives and promote their vision of a better digital world.

The DFC have conducted research activities and consultations with the 5Rights Global Youth Ambassadors Programme (GYA). For example, Global Youth Ambassadors contributed to the development of ‘Your Rights Online’, a resource for children to understand their rights in digital environments, and a discussion on their experience of generative Artificial intelligence (GenAI), which informed our RIGHTS.AI project.

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    "I recently had the privilege of talking to 30 young advisors. They were in Pakistan, Kenya, Malaysia, USA, indeed right across the world, and we discussed everything from the digital rights of migrating children, the on and offline fight against child sexual abuse, their personal strategies for online privacy and safety. One of the best questions came from a young man who said that from an African perspective he felt that the pressure to be connected, to be digitally literate, to be part of the new digital world order was so great that he felt that the state had out sourced their responsibility for his safety on to him.

    A year after the launch of the DFC centre, I am more convinced than ever, that our work to articulate how children feel, what they want and what societies (and corporations) duties to their flourishing could not be more important. I have been talking with and to children for 12 years and both they and the team at DFC are motivated to do work that meaningfully changes their online experience."

    Baroness Beeban Kidron, Chair of the Management Committee of the DFC and Founder of 5Rights Foundation

Find out more about the 5Rights Global Youth Ambassadors Programme.