International consultant

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In 2024, to expand existing dialogues and engagement with digital technology companies in China on the practice of Safety-by-Design and RITEC across all products and services, and in partnership with identified technology companies in China to provide a “deep-dive” into how the practice and principles of Safety-by-Design and RITEC can be implemented within the context of China, by identifying and sharing successes, challenges and promising or good practice using documented examples.

The case studies will provide important opportunities to showcase how Chinese digital technology companies are adopting Safety-by-Design principles in their products and services, and how these can be further embedded into core business practices both within China and across the region.

The case studies will be located within a child rights conceptual framework, that recognizes and reflects equitably the equal and indivisible rights of children as set out in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and as applied to the digital environment through the Committee on the Rights of the Child General Comment no. 25 on the Rights of the Child. The case studies will also draw on the other global guidance on the rights of the child through which safety and wellbeing of children should be established, to establish the framework. These include the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGP) and the Childrens Rights and Business Principles (CRBP).

This consultant is expected to work on the following tasks:

• The overall framework, methodology and workplan. The consultant should develop the overall framework, methodology and workplan, guiding the roadmap of the case studies and defining the method of data collection, scoring criteria of case studies, estimated timelines, and expected outputs of each stage.
• A Self-assessment outline. The consultant should develop a self-assessment outline following principles detailed by RITEC and Safety-by-Design to be adopted by identified companies to critically evaluate how they have incorporated these principles into the recent development of products or services, including social media, edtech or other applications or services that may be accessed by children. These different case studies should ideally be distributed across different services and products, including for example short messaging, edtech, or other social media platforms.
• Research frameworks for case studies. Working along with UNICEF, the government partner, and identified companies, the consultant should develop the research methodology and tools for each of the case studies, integrating tools for ensuring that the voices of children, and their views and concerns on safety of digital technology, and their vision, needs and requirements for safe platforms or products are integrated from the conceptualisation of the product or service. This framework may vary depending on the nature of identified companies, and the nature of the services or products on which the case study is focusing.
• Development of case studies. The consultant should adopt an iterative approach, ensuring that consultation occurs at every stage of the process, to develop and improve all case studies following the research framework, aiming for documenting and showcasing good practice, and identifying and learning from challenges and successes. Each case study should pay particular attention to what works, and what doesn’t work, and how learnings can be taken forward, wherever possible applying these lessons to the particular type of industry.

The following deliverables need to be submitted:

• A induction report with overall framework, detailed methodology and workplan. (5 working days)
• A set of self-assessment outline for identified companies to evaluate their practices of incorporating RITEC and Safety-by-Design principles into the recent development of products or services. (5 working days)
• A PowerPoint presentation at the launch roundtable to present the overall framework and the self-assessment outline to identified companies and the local research team. (5 working days)
• Five research frameworks (methodology and tools) for five case studies respectively to guide identified companies to develop the first draft of case studies. (15 working days, 3 working days for each case study)
• Five case studies along the lines of principles of RITEC and Safety-by-Design. (35 working days, 7 working days for each case study)
• Two PowerPoint presentations to present findings of the case studies to stakeholders as required. (10 working days)

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have… 

• Master’s degree in law, internet governance, cyber policy and security or another relevant social science field.
• At least 5 years of experience working on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), safety and security, internet governance, or technology.
• Track record of publications on child online protection and related issue.
• Familiarity with challenges faced by governments and private sector in the area of child rights in the digital world.
• Knowledge of technology society in China would be an asset.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

Source:  https://jobs.unicef.org/cw/en-us/job/570373

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