The meeting’s aims are both conceptual and practical:
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To identify the opportunities and barriers to children’s rights in a digital age.
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To debate standardized vs. contextual approaches to comparative research.
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To address the challenges regarding research and policy priorities, research training needs and research impact.
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To consider multistakeholder engagement and funding prospects.
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To recognise the practical, political and ethical challenges of such research.
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To scope key elements that could be developed for a flexible, modular research toolkit likely to be of wide benefit.
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To consider practical knowledge-sharing strategies, platforms, dissemination, ownership/authorship, quality control, maximum and minimum scenarios, expertise, standardisation/variation.
This meeting extends the collaboration among LSE, EU Kids Online and UNICEF.
The meeting draws together international experts in child rights, child protection, internet and mobile technologies and governance, cross-national survey and ethnographic methods, applied and policy-relevant research, and area specialists from the global North and global South.
You can access the meeting report here.