The Young Scot Digital Academy
Engaging young people in digital skills and inclusion, careers and empowerment programmes.
The Young Scot Digital Academy develops the digital skills of young people and connects them with positive opportunities.
We’re proud to work with young people themselves and a wide range of partners to create opportunities to try something new, do more of what they love and help shape Scotland’s digital future. We’d love to discuss how we can support your organisation to join them
How we can work with you
Developing Digital Skills
The Young Scot Digital Academy team supports and develops young people to gain or improve their digital skills.
We offer thousands of young people opportunities to strengthen their skills in this area through engagement in a range of innovative projects and connecting them with positive opportunities
The Digital Academy approach is to draw upon Young Scot’s skills to create compelling content for young people, our innovative approach to co-designing services and policies with young people and our experience developing engaging events to reach out to young people.
Every project is different and we can help you to use a number of different models and access different programme to meet your digital ambitions.
5Rights
Young Scot is the lead strategic partner for 5Rights in Scotland. 5Rights is UK initiative to enable children and young people to access the digital world creatively, knowledgeably and fearlessly. It aims to promote the five fundamental digital rights of children and young people – the right to remove, the right to know, the right to safety and support, the right to informed and conscious use, and the right to digital literacy.
In the first stage of the project, the 5Rights Youth Commission released their recommendations to the Scottish Government. This important document has been referenced and used in the formation of key government policy for the next few years.
For the Year of Young People 2018, a new group of young leaders are championing young people’s rights in the digital world.
Supported by Scottish Government, the new Young Scot 5Rights Youth Leadership Group, involving 30 young people from across Scotland, will work together to help young people realise their rights in an increasingly digital world based on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Over 30 organisations in Scotland have become 5Rights Signatories to say they will comply with the 5Rights principles in their own online behaviours and work. Any organisation can sign up and say 'I care about building a better internet for young people’.
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VentureJam
Discovering Digital World
5Rights Youth Leadership Group
Digital Ignition
Latest News
Young Scots champion digital rights at youth summit in the Capital
Young people gathered in Scotland’s capital today to debate and celebrate the rights of young …Read MoreManaging Your Digital Footprint
A challenge to develop a new online tool to help young people review and manage …Read More
Whats Been Happening?
A&D Blogs: Amy Chalmers
My name is Amy Chalmers and I am 15 years old. I am from Cumbernauld which …Read MoreAnna, Emma, Isla and Lee – 5Rights Blog
Hi, our names are Anna, Emma, Isla and Lee and we are the Rights Respecting School …Read More
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Our partnership with Carnegie UK Trust and Young Scot will give young people the opportunity to share their experiences and create a project which truly supports their needs.
Supported by Young Scot, the 5Rights Commission has put the voices of young people at the heart of Government policy