The Digital Futures Commission has now concluded. Our new project is the Digital Futures for Children centre, joint with 5Rights Foundation and London School of Economics and Political Science.
Today, the Digital Futures Commission launches “Blueprint for Education Data: Realising children’s best interests in digitised education”, a practical framework designed to tackle EdTech companies »
By Emma Day, Kruakae Pothong, Sonia Livingstone and Ayça Atabey In a new open-access journal article, we examine the governance of data processed from children »
The Digital Futures Commission launched its essay collection entitled Education Data Futures: Critical, Regulatory and Practical Reflections on the 21st of November 2022. This essay »
By Kruakae Pothong and Sonia Livingstone The Digital Futures Commission has identified many wrongs with data collection and processing in educational settings in its 2022 »
By Sonia Livingstone and Kruakae Pothong What do UK children think of the EdTech products they use at school? Have they been informed about the »
The Digital Futures Commission aims to put children’s best interests at the centre of the design of the digital world. To inform our work, we »
By Sarah Turner The Digital Futures Commission launched its report entitled Education Data Reality in its breakfast briefing on the 29th June 2022. The launch »
By Kruakae Pothong, Ayça Atabey, Sarah Turner and Sonia Livingstone The Digital Futures Commission (DFC) is launching its ‘Education data reality: The challenges for schools »
Education budgets are tied to how well a school performs, as demonstrated by data. Education data interoperability is called for to maintain institutional legitimacy and »
By Sonia Livingstone The “best interests” principle is one of the four general (cross-cutting) principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child »
By Kruakae Pothong, Ayça Atabey and Sonia Livingstone The volume and types of data, as well as the purposes of data processing in educational contexts, have expanded well beyond the initial purposes of evaluating schools’ performance, »
By Emma Day The Digital Futures Commission report on education data governance set out a child rights-based analysis of the use of EdTech in UK »
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