[Air-L] IGF Workshop#183 "Digital Wellbeing of Youth: Self-generated sexualised content"

[Livingstone,S]

Dear colleagues

Two IGF sessions on children and young people may interest list members:

IGF 2022 WS #183 Digital Wellbeing of Youth: Selfgenerated sexualised content
Tuesday, 29th November, 2022 (12:35 GMT) - Tuesday, 29th November, 2022 (14:05 GMT)
Organizer 1: Sonia Livingstone, Department of Media and Communications, Houghton Street, LSE, London
Organizer 2: Sophie Pohle, German Children's Fund
Organizer 3: Jutta Croll, Stiftung Digitale Chancen
Speaker 1: Chloe Setter, Civil Society, Western European and Others Group (WEOG)
Speaker 2: Gioia Scappucci, Intergovernmental Organization, Western European and Others
Speaker 3: Hazel Bitaña, Civil Society, Asia-Pacific Group
Speaker 4: Sonia Livingstone, Civil Society, Western European and Others Group (WEOG)
Speaker 5: Tebogo Kopane, Technical Community, African Group
Speaker 6: Stella Anne Teoh Ming Hui, Civil Society, Asia-Pacific Group
Description: Research provides evidence of a growing volume of sexualised content generated by children and youth. This is seen as worrying by both educators and legislators. In addition law enforcement agencies are concerned, since they often have to deal with such material instead of working on leads to combat CSAM. While General Comment No.25 on children's rights in relation to the digital environment (Art. 118) asserts that young people should not be penalised for the consensual exchange of such content, governmental strategies and legislation vary across the world. The session will review these differences and address the issue of self-generated sexualised content from a child's rights perspective. How can children's right to grow up safely, responsibly and self-determining in a digital environment be ensured and what is the perspective of young people themselves in this debate? These questions shall be the focus of the session.


IGF 2022 DCCOS Translating data & laws into action for digital child rights
Thursday, 1st December, 2022 (06:30 GMT) - Thursday, 1st December, 2022 (08:00 GMT)
Dynamic Coalition on Children's Rights in the Digital Environment
Description: Faced with growing concern about the safety, security and privacy of children in digital environments, experts have long highlighted a broad range of data, legal, regulatory, policy and technology gaps needed to build robust prevention and response mechanisms. Finding a balance between these areas of intervention continues to be a complex and is the topic of much ongoing debate at national, regional and global level. At the same time, there have been significant developments across all of these areas in recent years, including: Research - Disrupting Harm (https://ecpat.org/disrupting-harm/) research project conducted in 13 countries in Southeast Asia and Southern and Eastern Africa by ECPAT International, UNICEF Innocenti and INTERPOL. This project has helped address the imbalance of evidence regarding Online CSEA between the Global North and the Global South. International Law - General Comment 25 to the UN CRC on the Rights of the Child in relation to the Digital Environment has delivered recognition that the rights of children offline also apply in digital environments Regulation - Proposals and laws such as the UK Online Harms Bill, the EU Digital Services Act and a proposal for a regulation to prevent and combat child sexual abuse, and the Australian Online Safety Act, are changing the obligations and liability of online service providers with regards children's rights as digital citizens. Policy - Safety by design principles and age appropriate design codes are helping to shift the balance from response mechanisms towards prevention. Technology - advancement of AI/ML, prevention chatbots and other safe and safety-focused technology are helping to keep children safe. This session will explore: 1. How evidence from the Disrupting Harm project, combined with international laws such as the General Comment #25 can lead to real, positive impact on children's digital lives. 2. Whether and how new regulation from a certain countries and regions can or should inform action in other parts of the world. 3. What digital service providers can do to act upon evidence, respond to regulation, and ensure safety across all technologies they deploy globally.

All the very best, Sonia

Professor Sonia Livingstone OBE, FBA, FAcSS, FBPS, FRSA
FAW 7.01M, Department of Media and Communications
London School of Economics and Political Science
2 Clements Inn, London WC2A 2AZ  UK
Bio www.sonialivingstone.net   @Livingstone_S