Digitalisation and AI: resources
Youth in Europe: Effects of COVID-19 on their economic and social situation
European Parliament
The report presents an analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on young people, providing updated information on their economic and social situation, with a focus on employment. It concludes that Although long-lasting effects on the social situation and mental well-being of young people are still subject to uncertainty, there are reasons to believe that the negative consequences of COVID-19 crisis on youth employment might be less severe than in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. However, the reports also finds that a prolonged crisis increases the risk of structural unemployment among young people.
Although digital technology enabled distance education during the COVID-19 pandemic, the situation also revealed disparities when it comes to access to digital devices and connectivity, digital literacy of learners, educators, and carers which must be dealt with.
Youth in Europe: Effects of COVID-19 on their economic and social situation
European Parliament
The report presents an analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on young people, providing updated information on their economic and social situation, with a focus on employment. It concludes that Although long-lasting effects on the social situation and mental well-being of young people are still subject to uncertainty, there are reasons to believe that the negative consequences of COVID-19 crisis on youth employment might be less severe than in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. However, the reports also finds that a prolonged crisis increases the risk of structural unemployment among young people.
Although digital technology enabled distance education during the COVID-19 pandemic, the situation also revealed disparities when it comes to access to digital devices and connectivity, digital literacy of learners, educators, and carers which must be dealt with.
SHEryica - Good Practice Booklet 2020
ERYICA - European Youth Information and Counselling Agency
This document offers best practices and success stories on youth information actions that were carried out during the pandemic in the following areas: Digital Youth Information Work, Youth Information outreach to disadvantaged groups, Media and Information Literacy, Peer-to-peer in youth information, and Additional Good Practices in the Youth Information Field.
Declaration on Youth Participation in AI Governance
Youth Department of the Council of Europe
This declaration is the outcome of the work done by the young people, participants of the seminar Artificial Intelligence: How Can Youth Take part? organised by the Youth Department of the Council of Europe, between 23 and 27 November 2020. It is positioned within the wider framework of the Council of Europe’s youth policy and initiatives that link Artificial Intelligence (AI) and democratic citizenship. The declaration explores issues, challenges and roles that stakeholders can play to secure and enable the participation of young people in AI governance processes at all levels.
The role of digital labour platforms in transforming the world of work
International Labour Organization (ILO)
The report offers a comprehensive picture of the experience of workers and businesses on online web-based and location-based platforms, drawing on surveys and interviews with some 12,000 workers and representatives of 85 businesses around the world, in multiple sectors. It also provides insights into the digital labour platform as a business model, examines regulatory responses across the globe, and presents a way forward to ensure all platform work is decent work.
Advancing youth-centred digital ecosystems in Africa in a post-Covid-19 world
Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
A working paper about how Covid-19 has had multidimensional impacts on young people’s lives and livelihoods. Digital technologies have enabled them to respond to these challenges through youth-led activism and community engagement. However, access, awareness and the quality of skills-building opportunities is unequal.
The role of online platforms in weathering the COVID-19 shock
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
This policy brief reports on the activity of online platforms during the COVID-19 crisis. Google Trends data for OECD and other G20 countries indicate that in some areas (such as retail sales, restaurant delivery, and mobile payments) online-platform use increased markedly during the first half of 2020, when most countries imposed lockdown and physical distancing measures.
Youth inclusion, digital solutions and the global pandemic
EU-Council of Europe Youth Partnership
The study looks at challenges augmented by the covid-19 pandemic and solutions, approaches and digital platforms different stakeholders and countries attempted to use before and during the pandemic on the following topics: education and skills, employment and professional activities, health and mental health, information and counseling, safety and security online.
Education responses to COVID-19: Embracing digital learning and online collaboration
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
OECD Policy Responses to COVID-19 series on developing capacity building for alternative online education and learning opportunities in the short and long-term, including reflections on policy implementation for digital learning and sharing of educational online resources.
Strengthening online learning when schools are closed: The role of families and teachers in supporting students during the COVID-19 crisis
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
OECD Policy Responses to COVID-19 series examining the role of students’ attitudes towards learning in maximising the potential of online schooling and targeted policy interventions with the aim of reducing the burden on parents and helping teachers and schools make the most of digital learning.
Digital Youth Work: Youth Work in an Online Setting during Covid-19
National Youth Council of Ireland
A compilation of helpful hints and considerations when exploring movint youth work online, doing digital youth work and applying work ethics, principles and values to online settings
Social isolation, mental health, and use of difital interventions in youth during the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationally representative survey
German Research Foundations; Federal Ministry of Science, Education and Culture of the state of Baden-Württemberg
Paper based on survey data investigating the associations between social isolation, cognitive preoccupation, worries, and anxiety, objective social risk indicators, psychological distress as well as use of, and attitude towards, mobile health (mHealth) interventions in youth during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The European Youth Blueprint To Recovery
The European Youth Forum (YFJ)
Since the beginning of the crisis, the European Youth Forum has worked to ensure that no young person was left behind and that youth organisations were supported in their solidarity actions. With this European Youth Blueprint to Recovery, YFJ presents a series of policy recommendations aiming at influencing the institutional response to the crisis. Our solutions are built around three pillars for the reconstruction of our societies in the wake of the crisis: Social & economic inclusion - preventing the lockdown generation; Human rights, civic space and participation - maintaining and strengthening our democracies; Beyond recovery - sustainable alternatives to build back better.
"I'm kinda stuck at home with unsupportive parents right now": LGBTQ youth's experiences with COVID-19 and the importance of online support
Journal of Adolescent Health
Findings highlight the importance of synchronous, text-based online platforms to enable LGBTQ youth to feel safe to seek support while at home. Given the potential for long-term physical distancing, concerted efforts are required to provide necessary resources and support for LGBTQ youth during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Youth-centred digital health interventions
World Health Organization
The guidance presented in this document is intended for digital health intervention designers, developers, implementers, researchers and funders. Newcomers to digital health can use it as a start-to-finish primer on how to collaboratively and responsibly develop youth-centred digital health interventions. Those already engaged in this work can jump directly to the chapters and sections with the ideas and resources they need. Funders will find helpful advice in Annex 1, which outlines special considerations for making smarter, more meaningful investments in digital health interventions for young people.
Youth Engagement for Global Action-Digital Skills and the Power of 3P (public, private, people)
United Nationas Department for Economic and Social Affairs, Division for Inclusive Social Development
To commemorate the 2020 World Development Information Day, the UNDESA’s Division for Inclusive Social Development, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) with the support of United Peoples (UP) organized a webinar on “Youth Engagement for Global Action – Digital Skills and the Power of 3P”. The push for youth to enhance digital skills is not new however with the rise of COVID-19 the urgency is evident. This crisis risks reversing decades of progress in education and socio-economic well being by exacerbating the already existing high levels of inequality across disadvantaged youth (with disabilities or living in underprivileged areas or where digital infrastructures do not exist or are not affordable). These youth, and in particular young entrepreneurs, play a key role in our recovery and progression following the pandemic.To help to address the above-stated challenges major companies, academia and governments have launched digital initiatives, aiming to come up with solutions to help young people find employment and create partnerships for empowering youth through digital technologies while accelerating the implementation of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Digital Education Action Plan 2021-2027
European Commission
The Digital Education Action Plan (2021-2027) outlines the European Commission’s vision for high-quality, inclusive and accessible digital education in Europe. It is a call to action for stronger cooperation at European level to: learn from the COVID-19 crisis, during which technology is being used at an unprecedented scale in education and training; make education and training systems fit for the digital age.
Using artificial intelligence to help combat COVID-19
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Developmen (OECD)
This report offers an overview of how to use artificial intelligence to combat Covid-19. The document focuses, above all, on how these responses from artificial intelligence should be adhered to the principles of the OECD. That is, respect human rights and privacy; be transparent, explainable, robust, secure and safe; and actors involved in their development and use should remain accountable.
