Human Change launched at The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, January 2024
The Human Change campaign aims to raise awareness of the transformation of children’s social and developmental skills caused by the use of social media and the digitalisation of children’s lives.
Hundreds joined us in Davos in January for the launch of the Human Change campaign and a week of panels featuring leading experts looking at the impact of digitalisation on young people’s wellbeing as well as solutions to safeguard future generations.
Panels included:
- Addictive By Design: Maximizing Engagement in Digital Devices
- Ed-Tech: How Much Is Too Much?
- Online Lives, Offline Harms
- Government Responsibility in Regulating Tech for Future Generations
- Building Solutions Together
- Historical Experiences, Contemporary Solutions
- Training Students for Life
- What Kind of Leaders Will The Next Generation Be?
- Tech and Your Children’s Brains
- The Search for Solutions to Human Change
- Global Crisis, Global Response: Addressing Children’s Digital Addiction
- Human Change and the Future Workforce: Digital Addiction’s Impact
We were thrilled to be joined by leading experts in psychology, education, law, policy, philanthropy, business and more, including:
- Dr Mitch Prinstein, Chief Science Officer, American Psychological Association;
- Dr. Gaia Bernstein, Co-Director of the Gibbons Institute of Law Science and Technology at Seton Hall University School of Law;
- Dr. Phil McRae, Executive Staff Officer and Associate Coordinator of Government Research at The Alberta Teachers’ Association;
- Michele Uva, Director of Social and Environmental Sustainability at UEFA;
- Dr. David Edwards, General Secretary of Education International;
- Julie Inman Grant, Australia’s eSafety Commissioner; and
- Chris McKenna, Founder of Protect Young Eyes.