Enabling Trustworthy Digital Experiences for Children

Developing standards and establishing frameworks and processes for age-appropriate digital services and protecting children's data.

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IEEE Provides Strategic Expertise as Indonesia Adopts First Age-Appropriate Design Regulation in Asia

IEEE catalyzes landmark binding regulation to protect children online.

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Today, one in three people online is under the age of 18, but the original design of most digital technologies did not anticipate the use of those technologies by children. Therefore, there is an urgent need to address the vulnerabilities and evolving capacities associated with children and their experiences online.

IEEE SA’s focus on human-centric design and the need to protect children online has resulted in the development of standards and other activities to support this growing demand. This community is helping organizations design and develop digital services that are age-appropriate and deliver against the cultural and legal privileges they are entitled to in digital environments.

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Groundbreaking IEEE 2089 Standard Addresses Age Appropriate Design for Children’s Digital Services

As technology use expands across age groups, interest in age appropriate considerations geared toward young users continues to grow.

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.

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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

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IEEE CertifAIEd – The Mark of AI Ethics

IEEE CertifAIEd™ is a certification program for assessing the ethics of Autonomous Intelligent Systems (AIS) to help protect, differentiate, and grow product adoption.

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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.

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The IEEE SA Designing Trustworthy Digital Experiences for Children Case Study Reports features case studies that show how to bridge principles to best practices and foster trustworthy and positive online/offline experiences for children. They demonstrate how thoughtful approaches to important aspects around children’s rights can enhance trustworthy online/offline experiences.

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