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.
By Sonia Livingstone The COVID-19 pandemic has shifted in-class, face-to-face learning to remote learning. But the consequences for children’s education are yet to be properly evaluated. Suddenly, education became »
by Sonia Livingstone After its formal adoption by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on 4th February, General Comment 25 was launched »
By Sonia Livingstone Both policymakers and businesses operating in the digital environment surely wish to respect children’s rights and support children’s wellbeing. But what rights »
By Sonia Livingstone & Kruakae Pothong Children and young people are increasingly claiming the digital space as their own even though digital infrastructures are rarely »
What’s the best way to anticipate the impacts of digital decision-making on children and young people? The Digital Futures Commission is exploring the feasibility of »
By Kruakae Pothong More and more children actively engage with the digital environment and from a very young age. This encompasses anything from video-on-demand services »
What practical issues arise when involving children in designing digital products and services, and what can be learned from practitioners’ experiences? Given the Digital Futures »
by Ayça Atabey, Louise Hooper, Sonia Livingstone and Kruakae Pothong We warmly welcome recently updated guidance from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on how the »
By Ayça Atabey, Sonia Livingstone & Kruakae Pothong After three years of intensive research on the governance of education data at the Digital Futures Commission, »
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 Ayça Atabey At the Digital Futures Commission (DFC), we aim to recentre our increasingly digitised world on the needs of children and their rights. »
By Kruakae Pothong, Sonia Livingstone and Angela Colvert The Digital Futures Commission’s research on play in the digital world shows that, when it comes to »
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