This report, Empowering Young Children in the Digital Age, represents the culmination of the Early Childhood Education and Care in a Digital World policy review undertaken between 2021 and 2023.The development of this report and of the policy review was guided by the OECD’s Early Childhood Education and Care Network and has benefited from contributions of its members throughout the project. Annex D of this report lists the individuals and institutions that contributed to the policy review.
The development of this report was guided by Andreas Schleicher and Yuri Belfali and led by Carlos González-Sancho and Stéphanie Jamet. Stéphanie Jamet wrote Chapters 1 and 4, Carlos González-Sancho wrote Chapters 2 and 8, Christa Rawkins wrote Chapter 3, Elizabeth Shuey wrote Chapter 5 and made various contributions to the project, Clara Barata wrote Chapter 6 and Nora Brüning wrote Chapter 7. Country notes were prepared by Heewoon Bae and Christa Rawkins with inputs from Kentaro Sugiura, who also contributed to the report. Christa Rawkins co-ordinated the development of the compendium of case studies. Duncan Crawford provided communication and messaging support. Jennifer Allain edited the report. Cassandra Davis, Stephen Flynn, Kevin Gillespie, Eleonore Morena, Cassandra Morley, Della Shin and Olivia Tighe provided support for production and communication. Graphical design support was provided by Lushomo. The collection of data through the Early Childhood Education and Care in a Digital World policy survey and statistical analyses and outputs were performed by Nora Brüning, Vanessa Denis, Lynn-Malou Lutz and Judit Pál. Lynn-Malou Lutz also contributed to the report. The authors would like to thank OECD colleagues Gabor Fulop, Francesca Gottschalk, Jordan Hill, Rowena Phair, Giannina Rech, Lisa Robinson and Daniel Salinas for their contributions.