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Promoting social inclusion through digital youth work
Promoting social inclusion through digital youth work
Apie
This activity supports young people, youth workers, and youth work managers in understanding how digital youth work can contribute to social inclusion.
The resource Young People, Social Inclusion and Digitalisation helps youth workers and youth work managers reflect on the challenges of exclusion in digital environments and develop inclusive approaches that ensure all young people can participate meaningfully in digital spaces.
By completing this activity, you will:
- Understand the links between digitisation and social inclusion.
- Identify risks of exclusion and inequality in digital youth work.
- Explore how digital youth work can foster inclusive participation.
- Reflect on your role in creating inclusive digital environments.
Get inspired
Digitalisation has the potential to both include and exclude. According to the resource Young People, Social Inclusion and Digitalisation, digital youth work must go beyond access and be actively designed for inclusion.
Key ideas include:
- Not all young people experience the digital world equally.
- Digital spaces must be intentionally inclusive and safe.
- Inclusion involves recognising intersecting identities and needs.
- Youth participation is key to inclusive digital practices.
Watch the following videos to understand better the digital divide and how to overcome gaps through digital inclusion. Key barriers to digital inclusion and participation explored in videos:
- Not having a suitable internet connection
- Not having suitable digital devices
- Digital tools and platforms lacking accessibility
- Lack of digital skills
- Web content isn't accessible enough
- Virtual communities and spaces aren't welcoming, inclusive and safe
Take action: activities for different roles.
Explore the following role-specific badges to access activities designed to enhance your digital youth work within the organisation. Navigate to a specific badge and complete activities as a youth worker and youth work manager. Involve young people in co-designing digital youth work solutions.
- Youth workers can facilitate the Digital Inclusion Whistleblower badge tasks and activities with young people to help them think through and express their digital inclusion experiences and needs.
- Youth workers can evaluate and adapt inclusive digital practices by completing the Digital Inclusion Facilitator badge tasks.
- Digital Inclusion Integrator badge for youth work managers to embed inclusion into digital strategies and policies.
Claim open badge recognition
Upon completing the activities, participants can claim digital badges demonstrating their efforts in promoting digital inclusion through youth work.
Next steps: Explore more learning opportunities about equity, accessibility, and diversity in digital youth work. Connect with inclusion-focused organisations and co-create digital projects that empower all young people.
Gauk veiklos ženkliuką
Promoting social inclusion through digital youth work Gauk šį ženkliuką
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.
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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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Organizatoriai
Digital Youth Work Resource Hub
Panaudota grojaraščiuose
Critical Digital Literacy
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Digital Rights
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Identity Growth
Digital Youth Work Resource HubSukurta Skaitmeninio darbo su jaunimu ištekliai
Shared Guidelines and Peer Learning
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Supporting Creative Self-Expression
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