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When the Tool Becomes the Threat: What UNICEF's Data Governance Report Reveals About Digital Stewardship
A single 2025 cyberattack on an EdTech company exposed student data across 80 Canadian districts and into the U.S.—a case UNICEF Innocenti says reflects a broader pattern, not an anomaly.
Their new global data governance report confirms what systems have long signaled: tools are optimized for adoption, not learning—and the greatest risks fall on the most vulnerable students.
This UNBOUND piece reads the findings through a Digital Stewardship lens—what policy is finally naming, and what practitioners still need to do.
When “Open” Becomes Extraction
When “open” becomes extraction: the OER–AI conundrum reveals what happens when knowledge is treated as free input rather than shared infrastructure—and why digital stewardship now matters.
Beyond Digital as Usual: Digital Stewardship as Public Infrastructure
Last week I promised an AI field guide. What arrived instead was a manifesto.
This week on UNBOUND, I explore what UNICEF’s strategy gets right—and why digital stewardship must extend beyond tools to include ideas, attribution, and faithful co-creation.
Public Good AI needed to ensure AI strengthens—not weakens—education.
If AI were built as a public good —transparent, governed, and accessible—an entirely new class of educational problems would become solvable. Most importantly, we could finally address a challenge that has undermined learning for decades: how to keep education functioning when systems around it fail.