World Summit on
Digital Wellbeing 2026

Digital Wellbeing: From Insight to Impact

The Council for Digital Safety and Wellbeing (CDSW) was established in 2026 to advance digital safety and digital wellbeing through research, education, public awareness, and policy engagement. Building on more than a decade of voluntary work through the End Now Foundation, CDSW works with researchers, educators, industry, government, and civil society to promote the safe, responsible, and human-centred use of digital technologies.

Digital technologies, including artificial intelligence, are transforming every aspect of society. Their reach, speed, and capability offer unprecedented opportunities for innovation, productivity, and social progress. However, these advances also create significant challenges, including cyber threats, online abuse, misinformation, privacy risks, digital addiction, and the malicious use of AI. As societies become increasingly digital, safeguarding people requires equal attention to both digital safety and digital wellbeing.

Digital safety is the protection of individuals, communities, devices, data, identities, and online interactions from digital harms, abuse, exploitation, and security threats. Digital wellbeing is the quality of people's relationship with technology, reflected in mental health, healthy behaviour, personal agency, social connection, and the ability to use digital technologies in ways that enhance, rather than diminish, their lives. Safety without wellbeing leaves people protected but disconnected, while wellbeing without safety cannot be sustained.

Recognising this interdependence, CDSW is pleased to host the International Conference on Digital Wellbeing: From Insight to Impact, to be held on 2–3 December 2026. The conference will bring together researchers, practitioners, policymakers, industry leaders, educators, and civil society organisations to examine emerging challenges, share evidence-based research, and develop practical solutions for building a safer and healthier digital society.

Original research papers, case studies, policy analyses, and interdisciplinary contributions are invited on all aspects of digital safety, digital wellbeing, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, online harms, digital resilience, digital citizenship, responsible technology, and related fields.

We warmly invite you to contribute to this important conversation and help shape the future of digital safety and digital wellbeing.

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