BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260112T012041Z UID:FF360FEF-1FA4-401D-87DF-3E63BDE6EA3E DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260108T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260108T220000 DESCRIPTION:Online digital services have changed the way that people intera ct. Companies provide apps for download allowing users of any age to exper ience them through smartphones and tablets among other devices. To date\, company policies have acted as pseudo-guidelines for recommended use. But what happens when apps that were never designed for children are acquired and used by them? To mitigate potential risks the IEEE 2089–2021 standar d was developed- an age appropriate digital services framework for childre n. The standard stipulates the need for a risk-based age appropriate regis ter by which developers can do away with potential intolerable harms on ch ildren during the design phase\, and keep track of unintended hazards\, in order to counteract ongoing negative impacts on children\, allowing them to thrive and flourish. Supplementing international law\, state regulation s\, and company policies related to acceptable use\, IEEE 2089–2021 prov ides a benchmark for how children’s apps should be designed based on the 5Rights Principles. Technical standards can be considered a type of soft law\, supplementing hard law like treaties or acts\, and even non-legally binding instruments like declarations and policies. Together this panoply of safeguards can mitigate the potential for flaws in product development\ , ranging from data privacy breaches\, location tracking default features\ , nudging toward in-gaming purchases and auto scrolling\, child labor towa rd data annotation\, and adverse metaverse experiences. But given the rapi dity of product development cycles\, it is technical standards that can ha ve the most immediate effect on the pacing problem ensuring that child rig hts impact assessments (CRIA) are implemented in practice.\n\nSpeaker(s): Katina\n\nAgenda: \nPresentation: 9 PM (eastern time zone).\n\nVirtual: ht tps://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/525154 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/525154 ORGANIZER:drkrish@ieee.org SEQUENCE:31 SUMMARY:IEEE 2089-2021: Age Appropriate Digital Services for Children URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/525154 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justi fy\;">Online digital services have changed the way that people interact. C ompanies provide apps for download allowing users of any age to experience them through smartphones and tablets among other devices. To date\, compa ny policies have acted as pseudo-guidelines for recommended use. But what happens when apps that were never designed for children are acquired and u sed by them? To mitigate potential risks the IEEE 2089&ndash\;2021 standar d was developed- an age appropriate digital services framework for childre n. The standard stipulates the need for a risk-based age appropriate regis ter by which developers can do away with potential intolerable harms on ch ildren during the design phase\, and keep track of unintended hazards\, in order to counteract ongoing negative impacts on children\, allowing them to thrive and flourish. Supplementing international law\, state regulation s\, and company policies related to acceptable use\, IEEE 2089&ndash\;2021 provides a benchmark for how children&rsquo\;s apps should be designed ba sed on the 5Rights Principles. Technical standards can be considered a typ e of soft law\, supplementing hard law like treaties or acts\, and even no n-legally binding instruments like declarations and policies. Together thi s panoply of safeguards can mitigate the potential for flaws in product de velopment\, ranging from data privacy breaches\, location tracking default features\, nudging toward in-gaming purchases and auto scrolling\, child labor toward data annotation\, and adverse metaverse experiences. But give n the rapidity of product development cycles\, it is technical standards t hat can have the most immediate effect on the pacing problem ensuring that child rights impact assessments (CRIA) are implemented in practice.</p><b r /><br />Agenda: <br /><p>Presentation: 9 PM (eastern time zone).</p>\n<p >&nbsp\;</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR