What the Future Wants
What the Future Wants
What the Future Wants is a youth initiative from Tactical Tech that aims to put young people in the driving seat of their digital futures through education, co-creation and capacity building.
Young people grow up in an environment that is increasingly driven by and dependent upon digital technologies. Their social, learning and play spaces are being encroached upon by ubiquitous technologies so that the divide between public and private, online and offline is being eroded. At a time of crucial development this leaves them exposed to a unique set of challenges, such as tech habit and addiction, information pollution, algorithms and discrimination and data surveillance.
What the Future Wants seeks to define and address these challenges alongside young people and those that support them. Through research, educational curricula and creative interventions, we will work towards increasing the data literacy of the next generation so that they can think critically and proactively about the digital environment they want to live in now and in the future.
Visit the online exhibition
Currently available in Albanian, Czech, Dutch, English, French, Georgian, German, Hindi, Italian, Macedonian, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish. More languages coming soon.
Data Detox x Youth
Data Detox x Youth is an activity book to help young people take control of their tech. This interactive toolkit encourages young people to think about different aspects of their digital lives, from their social media profiles to their passwords, with simple activities for reflection and play. The activity book includes sections on digital privacy, digital security, digital wellbeing and misinformation.
Host Your Own WTFW
We enable our partners to host WTFW Exhibition in classrooms all over the world in many languages. If you are working on similar topics and want to collaborate we would love to hear from you.
Please send an email to youth@tacticaltech.org.
“The workshop was great, 100%, we, the children and the teachers were very satisfied. The children cooperated well. The teacher (55 years old) was very positively surprised at how it is possible to communicate with children on these topics when there is no generational barrier.” - Partner, Czech Republic
“The workshops went beyond the expectations, because we reached that both schools put those workshops into their program for next school year.” - Key Partner, Netherlands
“I'm learning so much stuff today it's amazing!” - Participant
“The content itself was very informative and engaging, you could see young people adding to the conversation and learning about a topic that's so relevant to them (and all of us) The activities were a lot of fun, the dot to dot and drawing your phone as a character were the most popular.” - Facilitator, Great Britain
"The majority of participants and visitors were positively engaged with intervention and the topics presented. They really appreciated the design of the materials, the graphic design value, and the way the presentation was presented. We can say that these topics treated in this innovative way have prompted a lot of reflection. Both participants and visitors asked questions they had not thought of before, sought answers, discovered new ways of looking at and understanding digital phenomena." - Partner, Romania
“The workshop was great, 100%, we, the children and the teachers were very satisfied. The children cooperated well. The teacher (55 years old) was very positively surprised at how it is possible to communicate with children on these topics when there is no generational barrier.” - Partner, Czech Republic
“The workshops went beyond the expectations, because we reached that both schools put those workshops into their program for next school year.” - Key Partner, Netherlands