This ySKILLS interactive report identifies the evidence on children's digital skills and maps it onto 11 child rights principles. It is designed to support policymakers, researchers, child practitioners and advocacy and child rights activists to implement children's rights in a digital world. 

The 11 principles are underpinned by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and by the Committee on the Rights of the Child's General comment No.25 on children's rights in relation to the digital environment. They were originally formulated by the Digital Futures Commission and further developed by the ySKILLS project. 

For each of the 11 principles, we provide: 

• An introduction to children's rights.

• Pointers to the available evidence on digital skills, noting evidence gaps.

• Quotations from children who took part in ySKILLS research, especially those in vulnerable or disadvantaged situations.

• The recommendations provide a commentary on pathways from skills to rights.

This interactive report was developed by Sonia Livingstone, Mariya Stoilova and Rita Baptista as part of the ySKILLS project. 

You can read more about the process of mapping children's rights to the evidence and the development of the interactive report here.  

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