Digital Readiness Lab

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Every organisation touching childhood shapes Digital Readiness

The Digital Readiness Lab equips businesses, governments, and educators with evidence-based research, assessment tools, and scalable digital safety frameworks.

  1. Research
  2. Measure
  3. Define
  4. Build
  5. Advise
  6. Verify
  7. Learn
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Ecosystem players

Who partners with The Lab?

Devices, Telcos & Retail

Make the first device handover a moment of support, not just a sale.

We map the family journey and develop age-appropriate onboarding, set-up guidance and practical support that grows with the child.

Schools, Sport & Community

Make Digital Readiness part of everyday learning and support.

Defining the capabilities and practical resources for the adults around children, creating a shared language and skills to support Digital Readiness.

Platforms, Apps & Creative Tools

Build Digital Readiness into the products children use.

Applying child-development and Digital Readiness evidence to product design and evaluating features to build capability, meet developmental needs and provide appropriate safeguards and support.

Government, Regulators & Policy

Bring Digital Readiness evidence into policy and public guidance.

Providing national measurement, identifying readiness gaps and evaluating policy initiatives. This supports better public guidance, readiness and safety standards.

Consumer & Lifestyle brands

Make everyday moments count for children.

From content and communities to products, campaigns and rewards, brands shape how children see, want and use the digital world. We help turn those moments into experiences that support confidence, judgement and growing independence.

Universities & Research Partners

Turn research into practical solutions.

By piecing together what each field can see, we build a fuller picture of children's digital lives, then turn it into practical solutions for the products, services and settings around them.

Media

Turn Digital Readiness research into advocacy and impact.

Providing research, evidence and expert insight that helps media tell meaningful stories, build public understanding and drive informed conversations about children's digital lives.

Banks, Insurers & Financial Services

Help young people grow confident with money online.

From a first account to a digital purchase, financial services are part of how children learn to make decisions online. We help design guidance, tools and experiences that build confidence, judgement and growing independence.

Employers & Workplaces

Support the parents on your payroll.

Most parents are working out the first device, the first account and the first group chat between meetings. We bring Digital Readiness into the workplace: evidence-based resources, sessions and programs for working parents, built on the Index and updated every year.

GOVERNMENT + POLICYBUSINESS + EMPLOYERS + MEDIAPLATFORMS + TELCOS + INSURERS + RETAILSCHOOL + SPORT + COMMUNITYFAMILY & PEERSTHECHILD

Adapted from Bioecological model (Bronfenbrenner & Morris, 2006)

The ecosystem

A child can't build readiness alone

Digital Readiness is shaped not just by a child's capabilities, but by the ecosystem around them.

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Digital Readiness Solutions & Strategic Partnerships

Discover where your organisation sits inside digital readiness, and what you can do about it

Research with us

Commission research around a Digital Readiness question.

Understand your readiness

Understand how your organisation shapes children's digital lives.

Build with us

Turn evidence into products, programs and practical interventions.

Measure what changes

Understand what is working, what isn't and where the gaps remain.

Government and systems partnerships

Build evidence-led initiatives designed to operate at scale.

Future standards and verification

Work towards evidence-backed Digital Readiness criteria and future assessment.

Public good. Commercial ecosystem

Families shouldn't have to fund Digital Readiness alone

A child using a digital learning kiosk in a school library

Our ambition is that no Australian family should have to pay to prepare their child for the digital world.

That's why LiVELY, the first practical expression of Digital Readiness, will be free for families.

The organisations whose products, platforms, devices and services shape children's digital lives can help fund the research, tools and programs that prepare children for them.

Free for families. Funded by the ecosystem.

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Mutual exchange

What does a partner get?

Evidence they can act on

Get raw baseline data, rigorous benchmark statistics, and peer-reviewed summaries from the Digital Readiness Index.

The standing of having asked

Show your community and customers that you actively invest in third-party objectivity instead of hiding from scrutiny.

Named attribution

Receive public credit as an official research facilitator on Index releases, media updates, and industry frameworks.

Early sight

Gain advance visibility of upcoming Index reports under secure embargo guidelines (without editorial control over scientific findings).

A published standard

Access the evaluation toolkits, baseline frameworks, and alignment curriculum assets utilized in national certifications.

Secure dispatch

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