AI: It’s not just the future – it’s NOW!

A colourful arrangement of playdoh shapes on a table, including WiFi symbols and the letters 'AI' inside a connected circuit of blobs and shapes.

By Hilary Philips, YouthLInk Scotland It’s Saturday morning and two groups of young people are gathering to make their way to Sopra Steria’s Edinburgh office.  Typically, the technology company’s office would be deserted at the weekend, but this is an opportunity for the young people to catch a flavour of a corporate office, share about … Read more

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.