Given that digital exclusion mirrors and magnifies existing social, cultural, and economic inequities and pushes vulnerable children closer to the edges of marginalisation, the digitisation of society has an uneven consequence on children. To address the effects of the shifting digital and governance landscape, as well as emerging and embedded technologies, on children's experience with digital technologies, a future-oriented framework for an equitable digital future has been proposed in this new UNICEF report. This framework changes 'digital inclusion' to 'digital equality'. For this framework to respond effectively to new trends and technologies, a wider range of stakeholders must be engaged.

The framework can be used as a foundation for developing and evaluating digital inclusion policies, as a roadmap for structuring the involvement of pertinent stakeholders in achieving digital equality for children, and as a tool to assist in the design of policies and interventions by state authorities, civic groups, and the private sector.