Berkman Buzz: October 17, 2014

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Urs Gasser reflects on the 25th anniversary of the UN's Convention on the Rights of the Child and calls for a larger role for children in the digital rights discourse

This year, we celebrate the 25th anniversaries of two very different, but equally significant, events: the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by the United Nations General Assembly and the invention of the World Wide Web by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. The Convention made an extraordinary promise to children by setting out their civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights, and millions of children around the world have since benefited. The release of the code for the Web to the public marked the inception of the Web as we know it, and today there are close to 3 billion users worldwide. While largely unrelated back in 1989, the Convention and the Web share important challenges and opportunities in 2014.

From his essay for UNICEF's CRC@25, "Taking children seriously: A call for the enhanced engagement of children in the digital rights discourse" About Urs | @ugasser

Alison Head's newest video asks, so what is lifelong learning?

Everyone believes in lifelong learning, but what does it mean? Tune in to Project Information Literacy's latest video (2:39 mins.) to find out what a sample of recent college graduates said about their own continued learning needs and practices. The narrative is excerpted from 63 interviews conduct