Meeting overview context, aims, challenges
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This document summarizes a meeting to discuss researching children's rights globally in the digital age. The meeting aims to examine how children's rights to provision, protection, and participation are impacted digitally. It also aims to build understanding of risks and opportunities for children worldwide with internet access. Key challenges discussed include identifying barriers and opportunities for children's rights across perspectives and continents, debating standardized vs. contextual cross-cultural research approaches, and addressing research priorities, training needs, and impact. The meeting brings together researchers from various regions and organizations like UNICEF, the EU, and LSE to advance the research agenda on these issues.
Meeting overview context, aims, challenges
- 1. Researching children’s rights globally in the digital age #LSEchildrights wifi _The Cloud § Arrival, welcome and introduc2ons Jasmina Byrne, UNICEF Office of Research § Mee2ng overview: context, aims, challenges Sonia Livingstone, LSE and EU Kids Online Website: Hackpad: h>p://bit.ly/1zI7Q4e h>p://bit.ly/1EWl2pc
- 2. Mee>ng aims § To examine how children’s rights to provision, protec>on and par>cipa>on are being enhanced or undermined in the digital age. § To build on current understandings of the risks and opportuni>es afforded to children worldwide as they gain access to internet-‐ enabled technologies of one kind or another. § On the one hand, it is vital to learn from the research experiences and methodological exper>se already developed. § On the other hand, it is >mely to rethink the current research and policy agendas, largely developed in the global North, by addressing the ques>ons and concerns that arise in the global South.
- 3. Background This mee>ng extends ongoing collabora>ons of several kinds. § h>p://www.unicef-‐irc.org/publica2ons/702 § h>p://www.unicef-‐irc.org/research/264/ § h>p://www.unicef-‐irc.org/publica2ons/715/ § www.eukidsonline.net § h>p://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2013/10/ global_research_agenda § h>p://www.digitallyconnected.org/agenda/
- 4. Six challenges 1. To iden>fy the key opportuni>es and barriers to children’s rights in a digital age, viewed from diverse perspec>ves and con>nents. 2. To debate the merits and challenges of standardized versus contextual approaches to cross-‐cultural research. 3. To address the research challenges regarding research and policy priori>es, research training needs and research impact. 4. To consider mul>stakeholder engagement and funding prospects. 5. To recognise the prac>cal, poli>cal and ethical challenges of conduc>ng such research. 6. To scope key elements that could be developed for a flexible, modular research toolkit likely to be of wide benefit.
- 5. Research agenda(s) § Condi>ons of access and use in daily life? § Greater opportuni>es for informa>on, educa>on, par>cipa>on? § Compounds or adds new risks of harm? § Effec>ve ini>a>ves, policies and prac>ces?
- 6. EU Kids Online § EU Kids Online aims to enhance knowledge of the experiences and prac>ces of European children and parents regarding risky and safer use of the internet. § It aims to provide a rigorous evidence base to support stakeholders in efforts to maximize online opportuni>es while minimizing the risk of harm. § Three phases of work from 2006-‐2014.
- 7. Activities Literacies Strategies Affordances Design Practices Benefits and harms that affect well-being and empowerment SOCIAL MEDIATORS SOCIETAL CONDITIONS O N L I N E Outcomes Digital ecology User-led Family Educators Peers and community Cultural values, norms, practices Education system Technological and regulatory infrastructures Structures of inclusion and inequality Identities Experiences Capacities Children Opportunities and risks INDIVIDUAL
- 8. Comparing countries § Na>on as object of study: idiographic, seeing our own country be>er § Na>on as context of study: tes2ng hypothesised generali2es across countries § Na>on as unit of analysis: seeking systema2c rela2ons among a priori dimensions § Na>on as component of transna>onal system: comparing systema2cally related countries
- 9. EU Kids Online Research Toolkit
- 10. Challenge 1: What’s the problem? Opportuni>es and barriers to children’s rights in a digital, global age § Chair: Sonia Livingstone § Alexandre Barbosa, Ce2c.br and EU Kids Online Brazil § Patrick Burton, Centre for Jus2ce and Crime Preven2on, South Africa § Nishant Shah, Centre for Internet and Society, India § Bu Wei, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
- 11. Challenge 2: Se`ng the standards for rigorous and comparable methods of inves>ga>on cross-‐na>onally § Chair: Ellen Helsper, LSE and EU Kids Online § Fiona Brooks, Univ. of Herordshire, Health Behaviour of School Children, UK § Kjartan Ólafsson, University of Akureyri and EU Kids Online § Clara Sommarin, UNICEF Child Protec2on, New York, Violence Against Children Surveys
- 12. Challenge 3: Research contexts – priori>es, training and impact § Chair: Jelena Zajeganovic Jakovljevic, UNICEF Serbia § Dorothea Kleine, Royal Holloway, UK § Joe Khalil, Northwestern University, Qatar § Surya Av, IMRB Social & Rural Research Ins2tute, India
- 13. Working lunch 5th floor Old Building 1 -‐ 2.30 pm § Lunch + moderated break out discussions to review research or policy priori2es § (1) Research discussion leader: Leslie Haddon, Rapporteur: Giovanna Mascheroni (Chairman’s Dining Room) § (2) Policy discussion leader: Dale Rus2n, Rapporteur: John Carr (Room 5.11)
- 14. Challenge 4: Mul>stakeholder engagement and research funding § Chair: Monica Bulger, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University § Eija Heitavuo, UNICEF Corporate Social Responsibility Sector § Natasha Jackson, GSMA, UK § Yves Boillot, Orange, France
- 15. Coffee/tea + moderated discussions on evalua>on or impact of evidence-‐based interven>ons (3.30 – 4.30 pm) § (1) Evalua2on discussion leader: Dorothea Kleine, Rapporteur: Clara Sommarin (Vera Anstey Room) § (2) Impact discussion leader: Robin Mansell, Rapporteur: Eija Hietavuo (OLD.1.28)
- 16. Challenge 5: Implemen>ng evidence-‐based policy interna>onally: prac>ce, poli>cs, ethics § Chair: Lely Djuhari, UNICEF CEE/CIS regional office § Robin Mansell, Media and Communica2ons, LSE, UK § Nevine Tewfik, Ministry of Communica2ons & Informa2on Technology, Egypt § John Carr, ECPAT Interna2onal
- 17. Challenge 6: Producing a robust yet flexible cross-‐ na>onal research toolkit: learning from experience § Chair: Cris2na Ponte, New University of Lisbon and EU Kids Online § Deborah Fox, Kantar Interna2onal § Giovanna Mascheroni, Catholic University of Milan and Net Children Go Mobile § Lucinda Pla>, Social Policy, LSE and Millennium Cohort Study, UK
- 18. Reports from break out discussions Conclusions and next steps Sonia Livingstone and Jasmina Byrne