KOALA Project

Helping Families to Achieve a More Informed Management of Young Children's Choice of Mobile Applications

Public resources

We used our findings to support academic knowledge as well as create a wider public legacy through the preparation of education and reflection materials to help users and groups understand issues related to children, data privacy and datafication.

We have created story books for parents and children, including:

A story booklet about Third-party Trackers [pdf]
A story booklet about datafication [pdf]

We have created various public videos to help users and groups understand issues related to children, data privacy and datafication:

Online risks to look out for, published for the 2022 Online safety day (YouTube)
Explaining datafication on Youtube (YouTube)
Explaining datafied childhood videos in Chinese (link)
Explaining Third-party Trackers (link)

For the public who are interested in a more academic reading about our research findings, we have produced various public reports, many also shared with participant children, families and schools:

KOALA report 2018 (What privacy concerns do parents have about children's mobile apps, and how can they stay SHARP? )
KOALA report 2018 (Are Children Well-Supported by Their Parents Concerning Online Privacy Risks, and Who Supports the Parents?)
KOALA report 2019 (Are Children Fully Aware of Online Privacy Risks and How Can We Improve Their Coping Ability? )
Datafied childhood report 2022 (Datafied Childhood: How Children Perceive Datafication Risks Around Them)

Finally, KOALA has been invited and featured in various public blogposts