That’s the view of hand-picked experts from the development, mobile, media, academic and research sectors that attended a roundtable discussion last month on Girl Effect and Vodafone Foundation’s groundbreaking research report into adolescent girls and mobile phones.
The research report Real Girls, Real Lives, Connected, published on International Day of the Girl, was used as the starting point for the session, held at innovation foundation Nesta in London last week.
Kecia Bertermann, Girl Effect’s technical director of digital research and learning, outlined the findings of the report (available in full and in executive summary form here) and four recommendations for the next steps: rewriting literacy for the digital age; designing with safety in mind; involving gatekeepers including men and boys; and supporting girls to expand their own horizons.
The next challenge was for the room to identify opportunities for and barriers to putting the report’s recommendations into action.