Last Tuesday, March 19, the Secretariat of Digital Policies of the Department of Business and Labor of the Generalitat of Catalonia, with the collaboration of the Ferrer i Guàrdia Foundation , presented the Manifesto of the Digital Rights of Children and adolescence The event, which took place from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the Sala Martí l'Humà of the Museum of History of Barcelona MUHBA, which is located in Plaça del Rei without a number in the city of Barcelona, had the participation of Andrea Molina, Claudia Moreno, Eraide Muñiz, Ingrid Grabenbauer and Rim El Khamlichi from the National Council for Children and Adolescence of Catalonia and Helena Prosser, Lluc Cardona, Lluc Fischer, Lucia Rivero, Roger Altimira and Teo Puigdevall of the Costa i Llobera School Institute. Liliana Arroyo, sociologist, specialist in digital social innovation and general director of Societat Digital de la Generalitat de Catalunya, also participated, Judith Jacovkis, professor in the Department of Didactics and Educational Organization at the University of Barcelona and member of the groups of research Esbrina and GEPS and Genís Margarit, telecommunications engineer, cyber security expert and professor at Pompeu Fabra University, as well as several facilitators and researchers at the Ferrer i Guàrdia Foundation.
During the presentation, the creation process was shared, the final document was read and a panel discussion with experts was held. Specifically, 162 children and adolescents have been part of the process, where they have explained their experiences, expressed their perceptions and expressed their opinion on the protection and privacy of personal data, autonomy and support, training on digital tools, social networks and access to digital devices and the Internet. The Manifesto of the Digital Rights of Children and Adolescents collects specific demands addressed to public administrations, educational centers, educational agents and families and calls for more understandable, clear and accessible communication, constructive alternatives instead of prohibitions and impediments and security measures on social networks and the Internet.
The Manifesto of the Digital Rights of Childhood and Adolescence is part of the Catalan Charter for Digital Rights and Responsibilities , a project, of a participatory nature, which is under constant review and improvement and which aims define a regulatory and democratic framework to guarantee human rights in the digital age. Along these lines, last year, the results of the Report on Digital Rights of Childhood and Adolescence were presented, which was the result of participatory dynamics with 854 children and adolescents aged 7 to 17 from 18 Catalan educational centers with different socio-economic realities.
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