Promoting social inclusion through digital youth work
This badge recognises your commitment to promoting social inclusion through digital youth work. It is awarded to young people, youth workers, and youth work managers who explore the activity content and resources and demonstrate an understanding of how digital youth work can both address and unintentionally reinforce inequalities, and how inclusive digital environments can be intentionally designed.
This badge aligns with the SNAC Digital Competences Framework for Youth Work, particularly within the following competencies:
- Awareness-raising on young people’s digital rights and their risks – recognising how digital inequalities affect young people and promoting informed, safe participation.
- Digital youth cultures – understanding how diverse young people experience digital spaces differently and responding to intersecting identities and needs.
- Availability of shared guidelines – contributing to clear and inclusive digital practices within youth work teams and organisations.
Earning this badge demonstrates your capacity to recognise structural and digital inequalities, reflect on how digital environments affect diverse young people differently, and contribute to more inclusive and equitable digital youth work practices.
Tasks
Task no.1
Issued by organiser or scanning QR code
To get this badge:
Complete the following steps:
- Identify at least three barriers to digital inclusion relevant to your context (e.g., access, skills, accessibility, safety, representation) and explain how they affect young people.
- Reflect on how digital youth work can unintentionally exclude some young people and describe two strategies to make digital activities more inclusive.
- Design one concrete action or adaptation in your practice that improves inclusion, accessibility, or safety in digital youth work.
Evidence: Submit a short Digital Inclusion Improvement Plan (1–2 pages or 6–8 slides) including:
- Three identified barriers to inclusion in your digital youth work
- Two concrete inclusion strategies inspired by the activity resources
- One measurable action you will implement within the next three months
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