Helping today’s new generation of leaders build digital resilience, strengthen civic participation, and shape tomorrow’s better, safer online spaces.
We prioritize youth as emerging leaders of safer, healthier digital public life in their communities. In Syria and Yemen, we’ve supported local partners and youth ambassadors to counter harmful disinformation. Across MENA, we’ve backed young women digital advocates working with peers to confront online GBV. In Southeast Asia, we’ve helped sustain a Youth Internet Governance Forum movement across three countries. After Myanmar’s 2021 coup collapsed research space, we convened emerging researchers to document digital violence and identify pathways to resilience. Again and again, our work shows that the young people shaping digital life are also best placed to shape it for the better.
Youth Leaders Stories
Novel to Newsroom: Four Iraqi Students Explore the World of Digital Harm
How four Iraqi students transformed youth fiction about online life into published media commentary on digital identity, memory, beauty and violence.
Page to Stage: Youth Novel About Digital Dangers Inspires Theatre and Debate
At Jordan's Jubilee Institute, a novel about online identity, pressure, and harm inspired a rich student-led day of theatre, debate, and dialogue.
Empowering Jordan’s Next Generation to Respond to Digital Violence Against Women
From teaching guides to moot courts and podcasts, a pilot project in Jordan is testing how universities can help future professionals understand, document, argue, report on, and respond to digital violence against women.
Moot Court, Real Stakes: Jordan’s Future Lawyers Tackle Digital Violence Against Women and Girls
For two days in April, law students from 10 Jordanian universities argued the same fictional case of digital GBV — and the Ministry of Justice was watching.
What Siraj Teaches Us About Digital Resilience in Conflict
A new case study documents how our Siraj partnership project helped Yemeni youth push back against scams, misinformation, and other digital harms through trusted local leadership.
Digital Shadows: Testing a Novel Approach to Digital Safety for Girls Across MENA
Across the Middle East and North Africa, Meriem Noumeur's novel is opening conversations with girls about online identity, pressure, trust, manipulation — and learning to stay safe.
Myanmar’s Digital Resistance: Ingenuity Under Repression
Even as Myanmar’s military tries to control online space, people on the ground keep adapting. Five studies map the creative resilience behind their organizing, fundraising, and survival.
Local Voices, Global Impact: Our Myanmar Researchers at GDC 2025
Three contributors to our Myanmar Digital Research series are taking the stage at this year's Global Development Conference 2025, showing how researchers from fragile contexts are ready to shape global conversations about digital inclusion and power.
Fandom for Freedom: How Myanmar Youth are Fueling the Resistance
Two young Myanmar researchers show how K-pop fans became unlikely engines of resistance after the coup. Now their work is breaking into Southeast Asia’s cultural conversation.
Inside Myanmar’s Cyber-Scam Compounds
How do Myanmar’s cyber-scam compounds trap thousands in cycles of fear and coercion? Journalist "Ying" spent two years investigating, and we've been pleased to support her work.
Publications
Hooked by Hope: Social Media as a Scam-Worker Recruitment Tool
Scam Haven: Responding to Surging Cybercrime in Myanmar
Fandom and Freedom Fighters: The Role of Pop Fandom in Fundraising for Myanmar’s Revolution
Deadly Posts: Harmful Social Media Content in Post-Coup Myanmar
Social Overload: Social Media Use and Mental Health in Myanmar
Chin State’s E-Learning Crossroads
Access to Digital Education: The Final Hope for Young People in Myanmar
Education Gap Online: Myanmar’s Higher Education Gap Moves to Digital Space
Unlocked and Exposed: Digital Security and Online Learning in Myanmar
The World We Want
