As governments move toward social media bans for children, a deeper question emerges: what healthier infrastructures of connection are we prepared to build in their place? An essay on youth, digital literacy, belonging, and the future of meaningful child online protection.
The new paper explores how global child online protection (COP) frameworks interact with local political, cultural, and regulatory realities in Southeast Asia, and how platform dynamics, particularly TikTok, reshape the governance landscape.
A central argument is that international digital governance models do not travel intact.
I had the privilege of hosting Dr. Natasha Katunga from the University of the Western Cape, a distinguished senior researcher whose work continues to push the boundaries of digital literacy and inclusion. She delivered a compelling lecture at the Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences that shed critical light on digital skills education in semi-urban South African communities.
Danica Radovanović discusses the detrimental effects of the digital gender divide, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, and explores solutions to this growing issue.
First, I am happy to share that several months ago, I’ve started a new role as an expert on Child Online Protection (COP) project for the United Nations agency responsible for information and communication technologies – the ITU (International Telecommunication Union). I am serving as a national coordinator who works on developing …
Earlier this month, I was invited by Ehtesham Shahid, a journalist at the Khaleej Times. He asked me about digital fatigue, and I talked about how this prolonged situation of uncertainty and our blurred boundaries online and offline influence our emotional, cognitive, and physical selves, and could reading books save us?
This essay I wrote was originally published for the International Day for Universal Access to Information. It highlights the importance of access to information to protect and promote fundamental freedoms.