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Children’s Rights in the Digital Age A download from children around the world Amanda Third Delphine Bellerose Urszula Dawkins Emma Keltie Kari Pihl 1 | Children’s Rights in the Digital Age: A download from children around the world “We have to concern ourselves with listening to children. We [need to] see [their] perspectives, and those of the practitioner or researcher, as not in competition but standing together in the construction of dialogues, in which there is mutual respect, active participation and the negotiation and co-construction of meaning. Listening to children and encouraging their participation in research, evaluation, decision making and planning is important for many reasons [including] empowering children as learners, enabling them to make choices, express their ideas and opinions and develop a positive sense of self [and] the benefits of their participation to society as a whole and for the development of citizenship.” Pascal & Bertram, 2009: 254 Cover image Philip Chan,UNICEF Australia Young Ambassador and member of the Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre’s Youth Brains Trust, at a Youth Brains Trust workshop held in Melbourne, Australia, in February 2014. Photo by Oli Sansom. 2 | Children’s Rights in the Digital Age: A download from children around the world Children’s Rights in the Digital Age A download from children around the world Amanda Third1 Delphine Bellerose2 Urszula Dawkins3 Emma Keltie4 Kari Pihl5 1 Principal Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society 2 Research Assistant, Institute for Culture and Society 3 Writer and Editor, lightblue.com.au 4 Research Assistant, Institute for Culture and Society 5 Research Assistant, Institute for Culture and Society Second edition Suggested citation: Third, Amanda, et al., ‘Children’s Rights in the Digital Age: A Download from Children Around the World’, Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre, Melbourne, 2014. Copies of this publication can be downloaded from youngandwellcrc.org.au © Young and Well CRC The Young and Well CRC This is a copyrighted report. Apart is an Australian–based, international from any use as permitted under research centre that unites young the Copyright Act 1968, no part may people with researchers, practitioners, In observance of the be reproduced by any process party innovators and policy–makers from over 25th anniversary of the without prior written permission 70 partner organisations. Together, we Convention on the Rights from the Young and Well Cooperative explore the role of technology in young of the Child. Research Centre. Requests and people’s lives, and how it can be used to enquiries concerning reproduction improve the mental health and wellbeing The statements in this and rights should be addressed to the of young people aged 12 to 25. The Young publication are the views Chief Executive Officer, Young and and Well CRC is established under the of the authors and do not Well CRC, Unit 17, 71 Victoria Crescent, Australian Government’s Cooperative necessarily reflect the Abbotsford VIC 3067, Australia. Research Centres Program. policies or the views of UNICEF. ISBN: 978-0-9925966-4-4 Published October 2014 3 | Children’s Rights in the Digital Age: A download from children around the world Acknowledgements On behalf of the Digitally Connected Digitally Connected Network Digital Champions Network and the Young and Well CRC, Assistance with recruitment and input • Apps for Good (Debbie Forster, this project has been led by the Institute into research design and outputs: Adam Lee, Myrian Schwitzner, Liam Beattie, Will Gardner) for Culture and Society at the University • Gerrit Beger (UNICEF) • Blockanomics (David Kinsella, Katie of Western Sydney, with support from the • Sandra Cortesi (Berkman Center McConville) Berkman Center for Internet & Society for Internet & Society, Harvard • Global Teenager Project (Bob University) at Harvard University and UNICEF. Hofman, Eliane Metni) • Gabriela Dumancela (Berkman The research team is grateful to Urs • Livewire.org.au online community Center for Internet & Society, & Starlight Children’s Foundation Gasser and Jane Burns for their initial Harvard University) (Kylie Johnson, Hannah Larrescy) encouragement to undertake the project. • Varoun Gulati (Berkman Center • Pan-EU Safer Internet Forum, for Internet & Society, Harvard and Safer Internet Centres (Luiza Participants and partner organisations University) Shahbazyan, Siana Stratieva, Mirela • Paulina Haduong (Berkman Center A warm thank you to all of the children aged Gica, Janice Richardson) for Internet & Society, Harvard 6–18 who participated in the workshops • PROJECT ROCKIT (Rosie and Lucy University) carried out by the following organisations Thomas) • Kate Pawelczyk (UNICEF) and individuals: • Shruti Rai, Meenakshi and Vinay Rai • Kartik Sawhney, Nurten Yilmaz • Access To Oral Health Foundation – Young and Well CRC Youth Brains Trust Maxwell Imasuen (Nigeria) • Rene Silva, Gustavo Annecchini • Anadolu University – Hatice Ferhan Input into research design: • Soronko Solutions/Soronko Odabaşi, Onur Donmez, Pelin Foundation (Regina Agyare) • Silje Andersen-Cooke Donmez, Sanem Odabasi (Turkey) • Wapikoni Mobile (Virginie Michel, • Philip Chan • Badr El-Tawayel NGO – Mohamed Oshim Ottawa, Jordi Torrent) • Erin Filan Youssry (Egypt) • Zambia U-Report (Priscilla Chomba- Kinywa, Frisco Henry Nshimba) • BasicNeeds UK in Kenya – Milka Project support team Waruguru, Joyce Kingori (Kenya) • Catalyst – Katrina Bayog (Philippines) Assistance with project outputs: Project Advisory Board • CIEM Research Group – David Castro • Philip Chan (Voice Over) • Regina Agyare (Soronko Solutions/ Lotero (Colombia) • Susan Danta (Broadcast Designer) Tech Needs Girls Ghana) • Claire Challéat, Iñaki Ceballos Challéat, • Urszula Dawkins (Writer of Digital • Gerrit Beger (UNICEF) Guillem Ceballos Challéat, Alain Champion Profiles) • Philip Chan (Young and Well CRC Challéat (Italy) • Vincent Debut (Translation & Youth Brains Trust) • Foundation for Young Australians – transcription) • Anne Collier (connectsafely.org) Rachel Mutch, Tessa Hillgrove, Calum • Vicki Forbes (Layout and Design) • Sandra Cortesi (Berkman Center Lindsay-Field (Australia) • Saba el Ghul-Bebawi (Translation) for Internet & Society, Harvard • Global Alliance for Peace and • Matt Hart (Preliminary research University) Sustainability (GAPS) – Geraldo audit) • Dr Maria Herczog (Committee on Emmanuel Kofi Hayford (Ghana) • Silmara Passarelli Ibanhez the Rights of the Child ) • Gobernación del Atlántico – Carlos A (Translation) • Prof Bob Hodge (University of Osorio de Hart (Colombia) • Rory Kelly (Film Editor) Western Sydney/Young and Well • ICA Teens (The Institute of • Vanessa Kutcher (Voice Over) CRC Scientific Leadership Council) Contemporary Art, Boston) – Joe • Josette Liebeck (Translation) • Prof Paul James (University of Douillette (USA) • Mathew Marques (Translation) Western Sydney/UN Circles of • Instituto Mídia Étnica – Paulo Rogerio • Jane McCormack (Research team Social Life Initiative) Nunes (Brazil) support) • Assoc Prof Rey Junco (Iowa State • Marcus Kissoon (Trinidad and Tobago) • Maria Mariana Mendes de Sousa University) • Olivier Lacaille, Margot, Adélie and Abel (Translation & transcription) • Prof Sonia Livingstone (London Lacaille-Aujas, Mona Maubon (France) • Ahmed Moustafa (Translation) School of Economics/EU Kids • Puerta 18 – Federico Waisbaum, • Alejandro Miranda Nieto Online) Ezequiel Passeron (Argentina) (Translation) • Dr Tanya Notley (University of • Srinagrinda The Princess Mother • Viv Stevenson (Translation) Western Sydney) School – Murli Menon (Thailand) • Emely Tuncdoruk (Translation) • Dr Nishant Shah (Centre for Internet • UNICEF Malaysia – Indra Kumari • Sebastian Martin Valdez & Society Bangalore) Nadchatram (Malaysia) (Translation) • Assoc Prof Amanda Third Equally, we want to acknowledge the (University of Western Sydney/Young Young and Well CRC individuals and organisations listed and Well CRC) above for the time and energy they spent • Dr Michelle Blanchard recruiting for and facilitating the workshops • Kris Gesling with children. This commitment made this • Genevieve Ng project possible. • Rebecca Philpot 4 | Children’s Rights in the Digital Age: A download from children around the world Partners Lead Partner Partners The University of Western Sydney The Berkman Center for Internet & Digitally Connected is a (UWS) is a modern research-led Society’s mission is to explore and collaborative initiative between metropolitan university established understand cyberspace; to study UNICEF and the Berkman Center in the late 1980s. UWS nurtures a its development, dynamics, norms building upon a multi-year distinctive, high-impact research and standards; and to assess the partnership for analysing digital culture, committed to enhancing need or lack thereof for laws and and social media growth and our region’s cultural, economic, sanctions. We represent a network trends among children and youth environmental and educational of faculty, students, fellows, globally. Digitally Connected development, and is responsive entrepreneurs, lawyers and virtual is a network consisting of 150 to contemporary challenges in architects working to identify and academics, practitioners, young Greater Western Sydney and engage with the challenges and people, activists, philanthropists, beyond. opportunities of cyberspace. We government officials, and investigate the real and possible representatives of technology uws.edu.au boundaries in cyberspace between