Freedom, Security, Privacy: The future of childhood in the digital world

5Rights Foundation is launching a new volume of essays “Freedom, Security, Privacy - The Future of Childhood in the Digital World”, written by experts from around the world.

The authors of these essays offer their own perspective on these questions, encouraging a more sophisticated debate about how to balance freedom of expression and children’s rights in the digital world.

Some of these distinguished authors will be joining the discussion during the volume's digital launch event, including:

• Dr Towela Nyirenda-Jere, one of Malawi’s first female engineers, outlines the specific experiences and hopes of children and young people already online in Africa;
• Professor Sonia Livingstone OBE, of the London School of Economics, who examines children’s understanding of privacy in the platform society; • Mr Jānis Sārts, Director of the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence, who in his piece Securing Digital Natives argues that “not everything should be allowed”; and
• Dr Ing Konstantinos Karachalios, Managing Director of the IEEE Standards Association, whose chapter discusses the long tail of what is being undermined or challenged by the new world order.

This volume is intended to be enjoyable and thought-provoking as we grapple with how to deal with the myriad risks that children face in the digital world.