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.
Earlier this week, I gave an interview to Euronews Serbia about a rapidly growing trend on TikTok, NPC-style livestreams that are increasingly used by young people. At first glance, NPC livestreams on TikTok look playful, even absurd.
The latest ChildArt magazine traditionally published by the International Child Art Foundation is out and the topic is Metaverse! Grateful to be a part of a team of child online protection experts. I shared some personal thoughts for children and about children on Metaverse and on my digital technologies journey.
This week it was my great pleasure to join an inspiring technical working group of experts and to participate and present at the 11th TWG meeting on Digital Transformation in Learning and Education organized by the ITU and UNICEF. The presentation was on the progress that my colleagues and yours truly made in the past several months on child online protection guidelines and localization processes.