Youth Digital Cultures Lab

Montage of photographs from the Youth for Tech Futures Fellowship programme, depicting Fellows collaborating on group activities and speakers presenting to the cohort.

Globally, 82% of people aged 15 to 24 use the internet, according to the International Telecommunication Union. Yet despite being the most digitally active demographic, the voices of young people, particularly from non-Western contexts, remain largely absent from the conversations shaping digital environments. The Youth Digital Cultures Lab (YDCL), hosted at The Pranava Institute and supported by INCLUDE+ was conceptualised to work on this gap.

A summer of hope: UK’s third sector challenge anti-immigrant narratives

Group photograph of the New Narratives team and participants in the Folkestone Storytelling Lab, sitting and standing in front of a stage.

Six organisations in Kent ran community projects in summer 2024, from commissioning artistic work to offering language, mental health, and skills development. Written by Mahima Jain, this article was originally published on Medium, Jan 15, 2025 Aram Rawf is a community inclusion officer at Samphire, a Dover-based charity supporting asylum seekers waiting for the UK Home … Read more