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Gender Gap Closing but Challenges Persist While the global Gender Gap in school enrolment is narrowing, adolescent girls continue to face serious obstacles in their progress along the education continuum. According to recent data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), drop-out rates remain...

In this academic publication, authors Sonia Livingstone and Brian O'Neill investigate the implications of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child on technology governance and policy. 2.1 Positioning Children’s Rights Within Debates over Internet Governance Although it is widely held that a more...

This Ted Talk was given by Dr. Sonia Livingstone. It's hard not to fear for our children when we see headlines about Facebook bullies and online blackmail. But Sonia Livingstone argues that we need to balance our reactions, and not necessarily impose more restrictions. Sonia Livingstone is a...

In this evaluation report conducted by Young and Well in partnership with UNICEF, the authors evaluate how the lives of youth are being fundamentally transformed by the expansion of technology. The report incorporates opinions of experts, country reports, and youth interviews to underscore its major...

In this academic piece, author Shannon Sorensen explores what the expansion of digital technologies means for the future of children's rights and parental relationships with their children. I. INTRODUCTION Parents who post about their children online are hard pressed to view themselves as a threat...

When the long-simmering social crises in Arab countries erupted to the surface in 2011, these events immediately shifted government attention from the economic to the social fields. Suddenly it became clear that years of substantial economic growth had not improved social outcomes and Governments...

This paper presents specific and useful suggestions for successfully using phone interviewing as a means of data collection in research studies. The lessons and insights are intended for anyone conducting research with phone interviews, particularly the novice researcher. The authors speak directly...

Briefing Paper Creating and using online surveys. Briefing Paper ... flexibility – compared to a paper questionnaire, an online one can be programmed to adapt to previous answers ... University of Exeter CASCADE project funded by the JISC.