Mon 22 Jul 7.30pm to 9pm on Zoom – our speaker is Cosima Wiltshire. This promises to be a fascinating evening because Cosima will be leading the discussion on the importance of meaningful youth engagement in civil society efforts, and the use of the online world to facilitate it, including the importance of regulating that sphere domestically, supranationally and in the private sector.
Cosima’s credentials are impressive. She is 18 years old, and has already been working in digital regulation and the online space for 5 years. For 4 years she has been a Childnet Digital Champion, advocating for the safeguarding of young people on the internet. She has engaged with the UK government during the passage of the Online Safety Act through Parliament though to it becoming law in 2023. Cosima has also worked with the United Nations and numerous third sector organisations to drive down digital divides, to combat the spread of disinformation and to ensure the safety of young people as they use the internet to further their causes. She has engaged with Meta to drive ‘safety by design’, engaging in an extended period of consultation to ensure transparency on posts where AI or Photoshop are used.
Based on this background, Cosima will be sharing with us the importance of meaningful youth engagement in matters such as these, and the role that online world (properly regulated) can play in that. She will be speaking from her own experience, and relating her work especially to the UN Sustainable Development Goals numbers 1 (No Poverty) , 5 (Gender Equality) and 10 (Reduced Inequalities). We know that all attendees will gain an insight into this immensely important area of work.
Cosima’s chosen charity for any donations is “Live Luke’s Dreams”,-a charity set up by a family friend after her son, Luke who was taken too soon by leukaemia. The charity works to support young people receiving cancer treatment under Barnet Hospital’s Paediatric Oncology Shared Care.
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