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Comply with legal frameworks, provide remedies as needed and conduct a Child Rights Impact Assessment.
Responsible digital governance and innovation means policy makers and businesses should keep up with ethical, rights-based and legal frameworks and guidance so that children’s digital lives are enabled and empowered by design.
This is one of 11 child rights principles applicable to the digital environment. Together they encompass the full range of child rights covered by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).
Summary of the key evidence from ySKILLS
Summary of the key evidence from ySKILLS
ySKILLS shows that, on the one hand, children’s digital skills improve with age, but on the other, age alone does not guarantee that children will gain skills in all dimensions or that they will master them fully.
Generally, however, older adolescents have higher digital skills to manage their online presence and they achieve beneficial outcomes in terms of psychological and social wellbeing.
“All young people need digital skills so that they can be active citizens. It means that you really know how to use the systems, how to work with officials and government. But you should also be able to participate in society. Be able to write things or use social media or use other media elements.” (industry/labour market expert, Finland)
“We are living in some kind of media-augmented reality where we no longer have the possibility of not using digital skills. Maybe we should call it ‘competences of the future’ or ‘competences of continuous learning’ rather than digital.” (education expert, Poland)
ySKILLS is an EC-funded research network aiming to identify the actors and factors that undermine or promote the wellbeing of children aged 12–17 in a digital age. More about ySKILLS
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