• Topic

    Evolving capacities

    The evolving capacities of the child as an enabling principle that addresses the process of their gradual acquisition of competencies, understanding and agency must be respected.

    That process has particular significance in the digital environment, where children can engage more independently from supervision by parents and caregivers.

    The risks and opportunities associated with children’s engagement in the digital environment change depending on their age and stage of development.

    This must be taken in considerations whenever measures to protect children in, or facilitate their access to, that environment are designed. The design of age-appropriate measures should be informed by the best and most up-to-date research available, from a range of disciplines.

[Translate to Englisch:] Aktuelle Meldungen

[Translate to Englisch:] Ansicht: Zwischen Kinderprogramm & Social Media: Pre-Teens und die Herausforderungen für Jugendmedienschutz und Medienbildung

Between children's programmes & social media: Pre-teens and the challenges for youth media protection and media literacy

Initiating discourse and debate is the declared aim of the "medien impuls" series of events organised by the Freiwillige Selbstkontrollen Multimedia-Diensteanbieter (FSM) and Fernsehen (FSF).

[Translate to Englisch:] Ansicht: IGF 2024: Gemeinsam mit allen Akteur*innen unsere digitale Zukunft gestalten

IGF 2024: Building our Multistakeholder Digital Future

The 19th Internet Governance Forum will take place from 15 to 19 December in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) under the motto “Building our Multistakeholder Digital Future”.

[Translate to Englisch:] Ansicht: Maßnahmen zum Schutz von Kindern vor sexueller Gewalt online gefordert

Measures required to protect children from sexual violence online

On February 20, 2024, the NGO Protect Children from Finland published its research report with actionable recommendations for platform providers to…

[Translate to Englisch:] Ansicht: Kinderrechte im Global Digital Compact berücksichtigen

Consider children's rights in internet governance

One in three of the approximately 5 billion people who use the internet and the digital environment worldwide is a child. According to Article 17 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, all young people have a right to participate in media from a variety of sources and to be protected in their use of them.

[Translate to Englisch:] Ansicht: Gemeinsam für ein besseres Internet

Together for a better internet

Safer Internet Day has been held at the beginning of February every year since 2005.

[Translate to Englisch:] Ansicht: Safer Internet Forum 2023: Wie befähigt man junge Menschen für das digitale Jahrzehnt

Safer Internet Forum 2023: Empowering Youth with skills for the digital decade

On Thursday Nov. 23rd the EC held the Safer Internet Forum 2023 in Brussels with about 150 people taking part onsite, and nearly the same number of attendants populating the digital space. The program circled around challenges arising from digital services and new technologies and strategies for enabling young people and children to cope.

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Study: Social Media and Youth Mental Health

The study, published in 2023, examines the positive and negative effects of social media on children and adolescents. The findings are based on analyses of research literature.

[Translate to Englisch:] Ansicht: Wie beeinflussen Angebotsgestaltungen das Medienhandeln junger Menschen?

How do platform designs influence young people's media behavior?

Summary of the study "Dark Patterns and Digital Nudging in Social Media - How Do Platforms Hinder Self-Determined Media Action?"

[Translate to Englisch:] Ansicht: Kluge Ideen für ein Internet, das wir wollen

Wise words for an Internet we want

On Thursday evening the 18th Internet Governance Forum was closed and the baton was handed over to Saudi-Arabia where the 19th edition of the Forum shall be held in Ryad in November 2024.

Practical guide: Designing digital applications participatively with children and young people

The guide provides a hands-on introduction to the participatory design of digital applications with and for children and young people. It was jointly published by UNICEF Switzerland and Liechtenstein, the OST – Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, and the University of Teacher Education Lucerne in 2023.