Many colleagues contributed to the development of this publication at various stages.
This report was edited by Francesca Gottschalk and Jordan Hill, with guidance from Claire Shewbridge. Substantive chapters were drafted by Francesca Gottschalk (Chapters 1, 2, 5, 6, 7), Jordan Hill (Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 7), Tuna Dincer (Chapter 3) and Renée Elliott (Chapter 3). Research assistance and support for Chapter 2 was provided by Tuna Dincer and Renée Elliott, and research on children’s rights and datafication of children was performed by Jun Yu by preparing a background document on children’s rights in digital environments.
The team thanks the contributors to Chapter 6: Caitlin Faye Maniti, Maria Francisca Elgueta, Hege Nilssen, Anne Magdalena Solbu Kleiven, Marianne Salomonsen Øyfoss, Miriam Poulsson Kramer, Bo Stjerne Thomsen, Catrin Finkenauer, Margreet de Looze, Diederik van Iwaarden, Lysanne te Brinke, William Stephens, Marjolijn Ketelaar and Jacobine Buizer-Voskamp. The OECD publication policy means we are unable to recognise your contribution on the Chapter 6 title page, but your support is greatly appreciated.
Much of this publication draws on analysis of the 2022 21st Century Children Questionnaire, which was developed by Francesca Gottschalk, Jordan Hill and Jun Yu. The Questionnaire was implemented by Jun Yu. The editors thank the respondents to the Questionnaire representing 23 OECD education systems. We are grateful for your time and for sharing your expertise on these topics.
We are grateful to numerous colleagues both inside and out of the OECD who provided feedback at different stages of drafting this report. From the Directorate of Education and Skills we thank Carlos Gonzalez-Sancho, Gemma Coleman, Jason McGrath, Jan Maarse and Esther Ferreira dos Santos. We thank Nóra Révai and José Torres for feedback on the reflection tools. From the Directorate of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) we thank Lisa Robinson, Molly Lesher, Lorena Giuberti Coutinho and Alexia Gonzalez Fanfalone. From the Centre on Well-being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity (WISE) we thank Olivier Thevenon and Paul Michelsen. The authors also thank members of the CERI Governing Board and Hanneke Scholten (University of Twente, Netherlands) for providing external review. Thank you to Jessica Bouton and Rachel Linden who provided administrative support.
The team thanks Tia Loukkola, Head of the Implementation and Measuring Progress division, and Andreas Schleicher, Director for the Directorate for Education and Skills, for their careful review of this publication and support for the work.
The team also extends a big thanks to Harold Hislop (Dublin City University, Ireland) for prompting an expert meeting on child empowerment, hosted and jointly supported by Dublin City University, the Irish Department of Education, and the Irish Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. The team is very grateful to the hosts for supporting this event, and to the 11 experts who contributed considerable knowledge, expertise and enthusiasm to the discussions that ultimately helped shape sections of this report.
This report contributes to the horizontal OECD project on Seizing Opportunities for Children in the Digital Environment, in collaboration with WISE and STI.