Agenda

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Thursday 12th February

2.30 – 3.30 Arrival, welcome and introductions [Participant introductions audio]

Jasmina Byrne, UNICEF Office of Research 
Sonia Livingstone, Media and Communications LSE and EU Kids Online [Audio]
Meeting overview: context, aims, challenges [Audio]

3.30  Coffee/tea

4.00 – 5.30 Challenge 1: What’s the problem? Opportunities and barriers to
                   children’s rights in a digital, global age 

• Chair:  Sonia Livingstone
• Alexandre Barbosa, Cetic.br and EU Kids Online Brazil. “As Brazilian kids go online, what are the opportunities and risks?” [Audio]
• Patrick Burton, Centre for Justice and Crime Prevention, South Africa. “Opportunities and barriers to (researching) children’s rights online in South Africa” [Audio]
• Nishant Shah, Centre for Internet and Society, India. “A child’s-eye view of the world” [Audio]
• Bu Wei, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China. “What is the problem in China? A critical perspective” [Audio]
• Chair summary [Audio]

Friday 13th February

9.30 – 11.00 Challenge 2: Setting the standards for rigorous and
                     comparable methods of investigation cross-nationally

• Chair:  Ellen Helsper, LSE and EU Kids Online
• Fiona Brooks, Univ. of Hertfordshire, Health Behaviour of School Children, UK. “Learning from the Health Behaviour of School Children survey” [Video]
• Kjartan Ólafsson, University of Akureyri and EU Kids Online. “Lessons from the EU Kids Online survey” [Video]
• Clara Sommarin, UNICEF Child Protection, New York, Violence Against Children Surveys. “UNICEF’s Violence against Children surveys” [Video]
• Chair summary [Video]

11.00  Coffee/tea

11.30 – 1.00 Challenge 3: Research contexts – priorities, training and impact
                    (Panel discussion)

• Chair:  Jelena Zajeganovic Jakovljevic, UNICEF Serbia
• Dorothea Kleine, Royal Holloway, UK. “Beyond surveys ‘made in the EU’? Evaluation, participation, action research” [Video]
• Joe Khalil, Northwestern University, Qatar. “A perspective from the Arabic Gulf and the Levant” [Video]
• Surya Av, IMRB Social & Rural Research Institute, India. “Researching rights” [Video]
• Preetam Maloor, ITU, Geneva. “Setting global targets on child online protection: towards a result-based approach” [Video]
• Chair summary [Video]

1.00 – 2.30 Lunch + moderated break out discussions to review (1) research or
                   (2) policy priorities

• (1) Research discussion leader: Leslie Haddon, Rapporteur: Giovanna Mascheroni
• (2) Policy discussion leader: Dale Rutstein, Rapporteur: John Carr

2.30 – 3.30 Challenge 4: Multistakeholder engagement and research funding 
                  (Panel discussion)

• Chair:  Monica Bulger, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University
• Eija Heitavuo, UNICEF Corporate Social Responsibility Sector. “Multi-stakeholder engagement and research funding” [Video]
• Natasha Jackson, GSMA, UK. “Insights from the GSMA surveys” [Video]
• Yves Boillot, Orange, France. “The internet industry and the value of evidence” [Video]
• Chair summary [Video]

3.30 – 4.30 Coffee/tea + moderated break out discussions on (1) evaluation or
                   (2)  impact of evidence-based interventions  

• (1) Evaluation discussion leader: Dorothea Kleine, Rapporteur: Clara Sommarin
• (2) Impact discussion leader: Robin Mansell, Rapporteur: Eija Hietavuo

4.30 – 5.45 Challenge 5: Implementing evidence-based policy internationally:
                   practice, politics, ethics (Panel discussion)

• Chair:  Lely Djuhari, UNICEF CEE/CIS regional office
• Robin Mansell, Media and Communications, LSE, UK. “Challenges of global internet governance” [Video]
• Nevine Tewfik, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Egypt. “Child online protection experience in Egypt” [Video]
• John Carr, ECPAT International. “Why policy makers need evidence” [Video]
• Chair summary [Video]

Saturday 14th February

9.30 – 10.30 Challenge 6: Producing a robust yet flexible cross-national
                     research toolkit: learning from experience (Panel discussion)

• Chair: Cristina Ponte, New University of Lisbon and EU Kids Online
• Deborah Fox, Kantar. “Considering consistency in data collection and sampling” [Video]
• Giovanna Mascheroni, Catholic University of Milan and Net Children Go Mobile. “Learning from the Net Children Go Mobile experience” [Video]
• Lucinda Platt, Social Policy, LSE and Millennium Cohort Study, UK. “Lessons from the Millennium Cohort Study” [Video]
• Chair summary [Video]

10.30 Coffee/tea

11.00 – 11.45 Report back from Friday break out discussions [Video]

11.45 – 12.30 Conclusions and next steps 

• Sonia Livingstone and Jasmina Byrne [Video - highlights] [Video - full]

You can download the agenda here and the meeting report here.