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.
Follow how our research has unfolded from 2020 to 2023 and gain an snapshot of our findings across the play, data and innovation research streams.
By Ayça Atabey The Digital Futures Commission aims to make children’s best interests a primary consideration in the design of the digital environment. We keep »
By Simone van der Hof, Kruakae Pothong, Sonia Livingstone In search of good recipes for realising child rights in the digital environment, the Digital Futures »
By Sonia Livingstone and Kruakae Pothong This year’s Safer Internet Day theme on 8 February is “All fun and games? Exploring respect and relationships online,” »
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 and Sonia Livingstone Did you have a playful Christmas? The year 2021 was the year of Playful by Design at the Digital »
By Jane Mavoa The Digital Futures Commission recently launched its Playful by Design: Free Play in a Digital World report. Alongside insights from children, the »
By Sonia Livingstone and Kruakae Pothong “Digital technology connects … physical and virtual spaces, creating both local and global digital playgrounds. Some of these spaces »
By Sonia Livingstone and Kruakae Pothong Design and (human) values are inseparable; together, they shape human possibilities and people’s life outcomes. “Design is the human »
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 Sonia Livingstone and Kruakae Pothong UNCRC (Article 31) requires that “States Parties recognise the right of the child to rest and leisure, to engage in play »
by Sonia Livingstone and Kruakae Pothong Imagine school break time. Released from lessons, the children rush outside. They run, jump, shriek. There’s talking, laughter, whispered »
The Digital Futures Commission (DFC) has just launched ‘Playful by Design: Free play in a digital world.’ The report looks at a crucial important aspect of children’s development – free play »
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