The Blog of the European Association for Digital Transition
The European Association for Digital Transition (EADT) is participating in DigComp CHILD, a project funded by the European Union within the CERV-2025-CHILD call for proposals, which will develop a curriculum of digital skills for adolescents aged 12 to 16 based on scientific evidence.
The consortium is also made up of Save The Children España, FAD Juventud, la Junta de Castilla y León y Save The Children Albania.
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The adjective ‘historical’ is generally overused. But in this case, it is quite likely that within a few years the recent verdict by a California jury, finding Meta and Google liable for using their design features to create addiction among minors, will continue to be studied.
The plaintiff, K.G.M., suffered serious mental health problems after becoming addicted to the social media platforms of Meta and YouTube, the defendants, when she was just a child. This is the first lawsuit regarding social media addiction from the perspective of liability for defective products.
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Last Tuesday, the European Association for Digital Transition (AETD in its Spanish acronym) warned that the large digital platforms are unwilling to implement truly effective age verification systems, despite growing evidence on the risks the current digital environment poses to children. The Association underlines that, to date, the measures taken by the platforms have generally been cosmetic and aimed at avoiding responsibility rather than ensuring effective protection.
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The European Association for Digital Transition (AETD in its Spanish abbreviation) has recently participated in the Colombian Forum of the Commission for Communications Regulation (CRC) on the protection of the rights of children and adolescents in digital environments. At this meeting, which took place in Bogotá, the CRC officially presented the National Consensus on Digital Care, a multisector agreement that used the proposal for a State Pact for the protection of minors online, promoted in Spain with enormous success by the AETD, as a reference
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The work done by Ana Caballero, vice president of the European Association for Digital Transition (EADT), in defence of better protection for minors in the digital realm was recognized on Tuesday, October 8th, by the national police.
Caballero, who from her position at the EADT chaired the expert working group brought together by the Ministry of Youth and Children “to develop a safe digital environment” for minors, has been awarded the Police Order of Merit from the national police, in the category of the Cruz Blanca as a person from outside of the Institution.
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In a digital environment with hardly any clear rules, children have become the weakest link. The report ‘Networks that entrap’, prepared by Save the Children with collaboration from the European Association for Digital Transition (EADT), makes it clear: crimes of sexual exploitation and violence against children have moved forcefully to the online world. And this has happened in an ecosystem that not only doesn’t stop these crimes, but often magnifies them.
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The signatories of the State Pact to protect minors in the digital realm – the European Association for Digital Transition, Dale una Vuelta, Fundación ANAR, iCmedia, Save the Children and UNICEF Spain – continue their work to strengthen this citizens’ initiative.
A recent milestone in their efforts was a work meeting with Her Majesty Queen Letizia, held at the Palacio de la Zarzuela. At this meeting, key representatives from the entities that have promoted the Pact stressed the urgency of a coordinated, rigorous response based on political and social consensus to face the impact that technologies are having on the well-being of minors.
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The European Association for Digital Transition (EADT), an organisation affiliated with the Digital Rights Observatory, launched a spot last Saturday, March 15th, coinciding with World Consumer Rights Day, under the premise of “not accepting the unacceptable”. According to Ricardo Rodríguez Contreras, president of the EADT, the aim of the campaign is “to raise awareness among the public about their rights as digital consumers and to promote good practices”. Aimed at users of digital environments, the spot seeks to raise awareness among citizens about how to act and navigate safely in the digital environment, with special attention on young people as peak digital users.
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The report by the expert working group on the protection of minors in the online environment has entered a new phase. On Tuesday, December 3rd, the report was submitted to Spain’s Council of Ministers, culminating almost nine months of work by the Committee of Experts. This group of fifty professionals was created by the Spanish Ministry of Youth and Children to propose the best measures to take in the face of a growing problem: the negative impacts of digitalisation on children and adolescents, with phenomena such as cyberbullying, the selling of their personal data, mental health problems due to exposure on social networks, or the impact on their emotional and sexual relationships as a result of exposure to pornographic content.
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November 20 is World Children’s Day. To mark the date, as in other years, the European Association for Digital Transition (EADT) held a discussion session in Madrid on the digital rights of minors. New in 2024 is that the event arose from an agreement between the European Association for Digital Transition and the public business institution Red.es, within the framework of the Digital Rights observation area and aimed at promoting the Digital Rights Charter.
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