Through this collaboration, we consult children and young people:
- To listen to their views about their digital lives, and engage with them about priorities for change.
- To learn from and act on their insights in designing our research and recommendations.
- To co-create child-friendly resources that reflect their perspectives and promote their vision of a better digital world.
"I recently had the privilege of talking to 30 young advisors. They were in Pakistan, Kenya, Malaysia, US, indeed right across the world, and we discussed everything from the digital rights of migrating children, the on and offline fight against child sexual abuse, their PERSONAL strategies for online privacy and safety. One of the best questions came from a young man who said that from an African perspective he felt that the pressure to be connected, to be digitally literate, to be part of the new digital world order was so great that he felt that the state had out sourced their responsibility for his safety on to him.
A year after the launch of the DFC centre, I am more convinced than ever, that our work to articulate how children feel, what they want and what societies (and corporations) duties to their flourishing - could not be more important. I have been talking with and to children for 12 years and both they and the team at DFC are motivated to do work that meaningfully changes their online experience."
Baroness Beeban Kidron, Chair of the Management Committee of DFC and Founder and Chair of 5Rights Foundation