Kylie J Stevenson

This white paper communicates research activities and findings investigating digital safety and digital citizenship through multistakeholder collaborations in three countries—India, South Korea, and Australia. Performed by an Edith Cowan University-based research team from the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child, supported by the LEGO Group, this research additionally responds to many recent policy and practice reviews arguing for institutional and policy engagement in the Asia Pacific (APAC) that build children’s digital safety, literacy and citizenship. These include the UNESCO data-driven report, Digital Kids Asia Pacific (DKAP): Insights into children’s digital citizenship (UNESCO, 2019), an earlier UNESCO review of policy, Building digital citizenship in Asia Pacific through safe, effective and responsible use of ICT (UNESCO, 2016) and a UNICEF scoping paper, Digital literacy for children (Nascimbeni & Vosloo, 2019). These reports highlight the importance of stakeholders engaging with new ways to foster digital literacy and digital citizenship...

This report talks about a teamwork project between the LEGO Group, the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child (Digital Child) and Edith Cowan University (ECU).

In 2022, the LEGO Group, ECU and Digital Child researchers teamed up to ask children and adults in India, Korea and Australia about digital citizenship. We collected all this information together and compared our results, and then made some suggestions about how we can all do things better to help kids be safer, smarter, and happier online.

This literature review is the first outcome of a research partnership between the LEGO Group, the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child and Edith Cowan University (ECU). This literature review provides the background for further stages of the project, including roundtables with child and adult stakeholders, and subsequent reports synthesising the outcomes of these roundtables, the literature and research findings.

This report of findings is the second outcome of a research partnership between the LEGO Group, the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child and Edith Cowan University (ECU). This report provides details of the perspectives of children (ages 3 to 13) gathered in roundtables in India, Korea and Australia, and synthesises these research findings with current literature about children’s digital citizenship.