The Consejo General de Colegios de Ingeniería Informática (CCII), in collaboration with UNICEF Spain, Red.es and the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), has presented the report “Infancia, adolescencia y bienestar digital. Una aproximación desde la salud, la convivencia y la responsabilidad social.” (“Childhood, adolescence and digital well-being. An approach from the perspectives of health, coexistence and social responsibility”). This large-scale research effort gathers the voices of nearly 100,000 children and adolescents from across Spain, offering the most comprehensive national analysis conducted to date on the impact of technology on childhood and adolescence.
One of the key findings was that one in ten children report having suffered cyberbullying, and one in three adolescents within a romantic relationship experience some form of digital violence. Although certain online risks have decreased since previous studies — such as sexting, contact with strangers or mobile phone use in class — digital anxiety and violent behaviours continue to grow among young people. The report provides concrete proposals to strengthen digital wellbeing, safety, and emotional health.
Adolescents maintain a massive presence on social media: 92.5% participate in at least one platform, and 75.8% in three or more. Furthermore, the average age of first mobile phone ownership is now 10.8 years. The study highlights that while technology offers extraordinary opportunities, unsupervised and intensive use must be approached as a public health issue, due to its impact on emotional, social, and cognitive development.
As technical guarantor of the project, CCII ensured the stability, confidentiality and quality of the data collection process — conducted in six different languages and involving more than 100,000 surveys — and applied advanced Big Data and AI technologies for data validation, filtering and analysis. The project’s interactive dashboards are publicly available at www.infanciadigital.es, offering an accessible resource for the scientific community, educators and public administrations.
This work reaffirms CCII’s commitment to promoting digital wellbeing and contributing to a safe, healthy and enriching technological environment for all children.
