IEEE SA in cooperation with UNICEF and the Greek Ministry of Digital Governance invite you to attend

Designing Responsibly: Age-Appropriate Standards in the Digital Era

Recorded on 17 December 2025

Children today are not just digital users – they are digital citizens shaped by technology ecosystems that influence their education, socialization, health and identity. The rapid evolution of AI-driven platforms, immersive environments, and connected devices raises urgent questions of governance, safety, data ethics, and participation.

This workshop explores how to create age-appropriate digital environments that foster well-being, trust, and opportunity for children. The discussion examines technical, ethical, and governance frameworks that promote responsible innovation in the digital economy, shares emerging approaches and global standards development, and engages participants in mapping actionable pathways using standards that protect, empower, and include children in digital environments.

Speakers

Jasmina Byrne

Chief of Foresight and Policy
UNICEF
About Jasmina Byrne

Steven Vosloo

Digital Policy Expert
UNICEF
About Steven Vosloo

Greek Ministry

Greek Ministry of Digital Governance

Moira Patterson

Global Market Affairs & Standards Partnerships Director
IEEE SA
About Moira Patterson

Karen Mulberry

Senior Manager, Technology Policy
IEEE SA
About Karen Mulberry

Marinos Tsokas

Advisor to the Secretary General
Telecommunications and Post of the Ministry of Digital Governance, for Electronic Communications and Digital Policy Issues

Learn More About IEEEs Work on Age-Appropriate Standards

World Children’s Day: Advancing Children’s Online Safety and Well-being Through Standards and Global Collaboration

IEEE Children’s Age-appropriate design and Well-being Standardization Work

Measuring What Matters in the Era of Global Warming and the Age of Algorithmic Promises
Recommendation 2.0 focuses on protecting children’s lives, future and data. That recommendation contains a discussion of operationalizing responsible and ethical use of data, which is a critical aspect of data use that respects the rights and well-being of children.

The IEEE 2089™-2021, Standard for Age Appropriate Digital Services Framework, informed by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and built upon the principles developed by the 5Rights Foundation, establishes a recommended set of processes that help enable organizations to make their products and services age appropriate, including consideration of risk mitigation and management through the life cycle of development, delivery, and distribution

Additional Standards & Projects

IEEE 2089.1™-2024 IEEE Standard for Online Age Verification
IEEE P2089.2™ Standard for Terms and Conditions for Children’s Online Engagement
IEEE P2089.3™ Standard for Online Parental Consent
IEEE P2863™ Recommended Practice for Organizational Governance of Artificial Intelligence
IEEE P2895™ Standard Taxonomy for Responsible Use and Privacy of Human-Generated Data
IEEE P3119™ Standard for the Procurement of Artificial Intelligence and Automated Decision Systems
IEEE P3462™ Recommended Practice for Using Safety by Design in Generative Models to Prioritize Child Safety
IEEE 7000™ Series Standards on AI Ethics and Data Governance, including:
IEEE 7010-2020 Recommended Practice for Assessing the Impact of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems on Human Well-Being

Ethical Principles for Engineering Digital Services for Children
Introducing concrete ethical principles that may easily be adhered to and endorsed by industry participants enables IEEE to be an important resource providing vital tools and support to industry participants in developing their technologies in a manner that benefits humanity.

The IEEE Global Initiative 2.0 on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems
An evolution of the work that created the groundbreaking Ethically Aligned Design – A Vision for Prioritizing Human Well-Being in Autonomous and Intelligent Systems between 2016-2019. Bringing together experts in fields related to autonomous systems (e.g., Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Cognitive Computing, Affective Computing) to identify and address the ethical considerations related to the design of autonomous systems and the issues they involved.

IEEE SA Children’s Data Governance Applied Case Study Report
The report contains eleven case studies of companies that build applications and websites while applying principles of age-appropriate, inclusive design, and data governance considerations to respect children’s rights. To explore the case studies listed below, download the report to get a better understanding of their solutions.

Applied Case Studies for Designing Trustworthy Digital Experiences for Children
The second of the ongoing series, the report contains 8 case studies focused on responsibly connecting digitally with children, using minimal data collection, and better ways of obtaining parental consent. Download the report to explore the case studies listed below and better understand their solutions.

IEEE Online Age Verification Certification Program
This certification program assesses the design, specification, evaluation, and deployment of age verification systems against the framework identified in the IEEE 2089.1™, Standard for Online Age Verification.