Online council for children and young people ”Digiraati”
The Ministry of Justice launched in 2022 an online council “Digiraati” to support children’s and young people’s online participation in decision-making processes.
Ministry of Justice
The aim is to provide an online channel for all children and young people to participate in decision-making processes and to make children’s and young people’s voices to be heard in society. The aim is also to increase interaction between people of different ages and backgrounds, thereby improving the quality of decision-making and increasing the partnership between central government, non-governmental actors and academic research. The project also responds to the need to reach vulnerable children and young people and to involve them more strongly in society.
Digiraati has been developed in wide cooperation with the ALL-YOUTH research project, the Ministry of Education and Culture, the National Strategy for Children, the Centre of Expertise for Youth Inclusion and the Finnish Red Cross.
As a result of the cooperation, the development version of the Digiraati was published in 2022 and the development work will continue in 2023, based on feedback received from participants in the piloting and online councils.
In cooperation between ministries, academic research and civil society actors, an operating model has been built in connection with the Digiraati to strengthen the opportunities for equal participation of children and young people and to increase interaction between people of different ages and from different backgrounds.
The aim is to improve the child-friendliness, usability, accessibility and data protection of the Digiraati.