To embed children’s best interests in the design and development of digital products and services, we map existing and emerging rights-based and value-sensitive guidance. Combined with consultations with children, industry and other relevant actors, and tested through industry case studies, the outcome will be practical child rights-respecting guidance for digital innovators.
Child Rights by Design
Child Rights by Design is a principled vision to inspire innovators to realise children’s rights in their digital products and services. This design guide provides practical pathways and resources for implementing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in relation to the digital environment according to the Committee on the Rights of the Child’s General Comment No. 25. (For home printing, please click here.)
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The compliance gap in digital products likely to be used by children
By Sonia Livingstone and Kruakae Pothong Whether tiny start-ups or global players make digital products used by children, there’s a minefield of standards and regulations »
Our consultation response to DCMS’s policy paper on ‘a pro-innovation approach to regulating AI’
By Sonia Livingstone, Kruakae Pothong and Ayça Atabey In the UK government’s recently published policy paper, ‘Establishing a pro-innovation approach to regulating AI’, the government »
Consulting children about their rights in a digital world to guide innovators and designers
By Kruakae Pothong and Sonia Livingstone Just before the summer break, the Digital Futures Commission went to schools! We wished to consult children about how »
Fairness by design: addressing children’s expectations through children’s best interests
by Ayça Atabey How can children’s expectations be addressed through embedding ‘fairness’ and children’s best interests when designing value-sensitive and child-rights respecting digital technologies? What »
New research on designing for privacy and data protection at the CNIL’s conference
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 »
Innovating in children’s best interests for a ‘fair’ digital world
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 »