A vital piece of the global online safety puzzle has just fallen into place: Australia’s eSafety Commissioner’s Office this week unveiled its Safety by Design tools for Internet companies everywhere. They’re the outgrowth of extensive international research and consultation with people in industry, government, academia and advocacy, including youth and parents – a process eSafety started in … [Read more...] about Key piece of the puzzle: Australia’s ‘Safety by Design’ tools
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Safety by co-design: How we can take youth online safety to the next level
Six years ago Prof. Gillian Hadfield at the University of Toronto wrote in QZ.com, "What we don’t hear nearly enough is the call to invent the future of regulation." It seemed the insanely fast development pace of multiple kinds of tech was becoming almost too hot for regulators to touch. Hadfield proposed "super-regulation," which she said would get governments "out of the business of legislating … [Read more...] about Safety by co-design: How we can take youth online safety to the next level
What Net safety can learn from digital game design
Internet-safety experts should talk with game designers. Last week was for me a three-day-long, powerful confirmation that we need to de-silo the public discussion about young people's well-being online and offline. I attended the GLS (for Games+Learning+Society) conference at the University of Wisconsin and absorbed a lot of wisdom about learning in digital games and worlds. One key lesson … [Read more...] about What Net safety can learn from digital game design
What child online safety really needs, senators
It was the 2024 version of public shaming – relentless on-camera questioning designed to send a message rather than hear answers. It seemed the lawmakers already had their answers. I get their frustration that... social media platforms can't just "install" the digital version of car seats and seat belts or create product labeling like on a cigarette package these companies and their … [Read more...] about What child online safety really needs, senators
Game-changer: Child rights-by-design
Even though the United States is the only country on the planet that hasn't ratified the nearly 34-year-old UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, US-based companies that serve kids and teens around the world no longer have any excuse not to uphold their rights. Why is that the case? Not "only" because young people's lives are now "digital by default," as psychology professor Sonia … [Read more...] about Game-changer: Child rights-by-design