Articles and research
Explore our articles where we reflect on how digital technologies are impacting young people and share our experience working with youth to create critical digital literacy resources.Articles and research
Explore our articles where we reflect on how digital technologies are impacting young people and share our experience working with youth to create critical digital literacy resources.Exhibition
What the Future Wants exhibition is a public education intervention, co-developed with young people, that explores the impacts of technology on society.Exhibition
What the Future Wants exhibition is a public education intervention, co-developed with young people, that explores the impacts of technology on society.Data Detox x Youth
Data Detox x Youth is an activity book to help young people take control of their tech.Data Detox x Youth
Data Detox x Youth is an activity book to help young people take control of their tech.Workshops
Additional resources, designed to create more learning opportunities for young people to enhance critical thinking around digital technologies.Workshops
Additional resources, designed to create more learning opportunities for young people to enhance critical thinking around digital technologies.Our work with partners
Check out the creative and unique ways our partners are championing media literacy in their communities.Our work with partners
Check out the creative and unique ways our partners are championing media literacy in their communities.Articles and research
Explore our articles where we reflect on how digital technologies are impacting young people and share our experience working with youth to create critical digital literacy resources.Articles and research
Explore our articles where we reflect on how digital technologies are impacting young people and share our experience working with youth to create critical digital literacy resources.
What the Future Wants is a youth initiative from Tactical Tech that aims to put young people in the driving seat of their digital futures through education, co-creation and capacity building.
Young people grow up in an environment that is increasingly driven by and dependent upon digital technologies. Their social, learning and play spaces are being encroached upon by ubiquitous technologies so that the divide between public and private, online and offline is being eroded. At a time of crucial development this leaves them exposed to a unique set of challenges, such as tech habit and addiction, information pollution, algorithms and discrimination and data surveillance.
What the Future Wants seeks to define and address these challenges alongside young people and those that support them. Through research, educational curricula and creative interventions, we work towards increasing the data literacy of the next generation so that they can think critically and proactively about the digital environment they want to live in now and in the future.
Exhibition
What the Future Wants exhibition is a public education intervention, co-developed with young people, that explores the impacts of technology on society.
Currently available in Albanian, Czech, Dutch, English, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Macedonian, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili and Swedish. More languages coming soon.
Data Detox x Youth
Data Detox x Youth is an activity book to help young people take control of their tech. This interactive toolkit encourages young people to think about different aspects of their digital lives, from their social media profiles to their passwords, with simple activities for reflection and play. The activity book includes sections on digital privacy, digital security, digital wellbeing and misinformation.
Also available in العربية Arabic, Basque, Brazilian Português, Čeština (Czech), Deutsch (German), Español, Français (French), ქართული ენა (Georgian), Ελληνικά (Greek), Hrvatski (Croatian), Italiano, Nederlands, Norsk, Português, Română, Türkçe and Shan.
Workshops
Additional resources, designed to create more learning opportunities for young people to enhance critical thinking around digital technologies.
Our work with partners
Check out the creative and unique ways our partners are championing media literacy in their communities.
Continue to the partner showcase
If you are working on similar topics and want to collaborate we would love to hear from you. Please send an email to youth@tacticaltech.org.
Articles and research
Explore our articles where we reflect on how digital technologies are impacting young people and share our experience working with youth to create critical digital literacy resources.
“The workshop was great, 100%, we, the children and the teachers were very satisfied. The children cooperated well. The teacher (55 years old) was very positively surprised at how it is possible to communicate with children on these topics when there is no generational barrier.” - Partner, Czech Republic
“The workshops went beyond the expectations, because we reached that both schools put those workshops into their program for next school year.” - Key Partner, Netherlands
“I'm learning so much stuff today it's amazing!” - Participant
“The content itself was very informative and engaging, you could see young people adding to the conversation and learning about a topic that's so relevant to them (and all of us) The activities were a lot of fun, the dot to dot and drawing your phone as a character were the most popular.” - Facilitator, Great Britain
"The majority of participants and visitors were positively engaged with intervention and the topics presented. They really appreciated the design of the materials, the graphic design value, and the way the presentation was presented. We can say that these topics treated in this innovative way have prompted a lot of reflection. Both participants and visitors asked questions they had not thought of before, sought answers, discovered new ways of looking at and understanding digital phenomena." - Partner, Romania
“The workshop was great, 100%, we, the children and the teachers were very satisfied. The children cooperated well. The teacher (55 years old) was very positively surprised at how it is possible to communicate with children on these topics when there is no generational barrier.” - Partner, Czech Republic
“The workshops went beyond the expectations, because we reached that both schools put those workshops into their program for next school year.” - Key Partner, Netherlands