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Young People’s Digital Rights through Youth Work
Young People’s Digital Rights through Youth Work
Content
This activity supports youth workers and youth work managers in understanding and integrating young people’s digital rights into their practices and organisational policies.
Through interactive tasks, you will explore ways to safeguard and promote digital rights in youth work, ensuring that young people can navigate digital spaces safely, responsibly, and with full participation.
By completing this activity, you will:
- Gain a clear understanding of young people’s digital rights
- Learn practical ways to support young people in exercising these rights
- Identify how your organisation can integrate digital rights into youth work policies and practices
Get inspired
Youth work has always supported young people’s rights and empowerment. The same applies to the digital world, where young people need guidance, protection, and participation opportunities.
- Read through the key digital rights highlighted in the infographic
- Consider how these rights relate to the young people you work with and your organisation’s current practices
Take Action: Activities for different roles
Navigate to a specific badge and complete activities with young people, youth workers and youth work managers:
- Digital Rights Aware badge for a digital rights workshop with young people.
- Digital Rights Educator badge for self-assessment and action planning with youth workers.
- Digital Rights Policy badge for digital rights policy integration with youth work managers
Claim Open Badge recognition
Upon successful completion of the activities, participants can claim digital badges recognising their competence in:
- Digital rights awareness
- Ethical digital youth work practices
- Strategic digital policy development
Who created this resource?
The Digital Youth Work Expertise Centre in Finland (Verke) developed the Digital Rights Infographic based on the following:
- The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
- General Comment No. 25 on Children’s Rights in the Digital Environment
This resource is designed to help youth workers understand these rights and responsibly support young people in navigating the digital world.
Who is behind this activity and badge?
Cities of Learning Network members develop this activity and badge to support digital youth work:
- Awero, Lithuania (Project Lead)
- Breakthrough Foundation, Netherlands
- Curaçao Innovation & Technology Institute (CITI)
- TiPovej! Zavod - Institute for creative society, Slovenia
Next steps
Explore more learning opportunities and resources on digital youth work through the Digital Youth Work platform. Apply what you’ve learned to empower young people in digital spaces.
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Osnutek
Young People’s Digital Rights through Youth Work
Organizatorji
Digital Youth Work Resource Hub
Badgecraft vodi spletno infrastrukturo za mesta in regije učenja in jo razvija skupaj z vodilnimi izobraževalnimi organizacijami. Evropski konzorcij razvija to platformo s pomočjo sofinanciranja programa Evropske unije Erasmus+. Kontaktirajte support@badgecraft.eu.
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