Center for Digital Thriving

Name

Center for Digital Thriving

Website

https://harvard.edu

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Digital Wellbeing Research

NAICS

Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (541720)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

EdTech & Digital Learning Policy Research (EDADADAK)

Keywords

• Digital wellbeing research
• Youth technology research
• Digital media education
• Technology policy research
• Digital thriving resources

Headquarters

HQ city

Cambridge

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

The Center for Digital Thriving conducts research and creates educational resources on the relationship between technology, youth, and digital well-being. Operating as a non-profit initiative within Harvard Graduate School of Education, it produces research findings and publicly accessible resources intended for educators, parents, researchers, and policymakers working on issues related to youth technology use.

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Products and services

• Digital Thriving Research and Resources A non-commercial research and resource output covering technology, youth, and digital well-being, produced for educators, parents, researchers, and policymakers.

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer CentercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerA comprehensive cancer research collaboration combining resources from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School to advance cancer treatment, research, and clinical care across multiple cancer types.
• Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired EngineeringcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerA cross-disciplinary research institute developing bio-inspired technologies and innovations with applications in healthcare, sustainability, and various other fields.
• Broad InstitutecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerA research collaboration focused on genomics and biomedical science, jointly operated by MIT and Harvard to advance understanding of disease and develop new therapeutics.
• Massachusetts General HospitalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOne of Harvard's primary teaching hospitals, providing clinical care, research, and training in medicine and related health fields.
• Brigham and Women's HospitalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerA leading Harvard-affiliated hospital specializing in research, teaching, and clinical care across multiple medical specialties.

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Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Common Sense Media: Non-profit organization that conducts research, produces ratings and resources, and advocates on behalf of children and families regarding media and technology. Direct peer given its parallel focus on research and resource creation around youth digital well-being.
• Stanford Digital Wellness Lab: Stanford-affiliated research initiative studying the relationship between digital media and well-being, with a focus on youth. Direct peer as it pursues comparable university-based research on the same topic area.
• Center for Humane Technology: Non-profit research and advocacy organization focused on the impact of technology on human well-being and society. Direct peer in producing evidence and recommendations around digital well-being, though with a broader societal framing rather than a youth-only focus.
• Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop: Non-profit research and innovation lab focused on children and media, including digital media's effect on learning. Direct peer in conducting research and producing resources at the intersection of youth, education, and digital technology.

Regional players

• Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society: Harvard-based research center studying cyberlaw, privacy, and the social impact of digital technologies. Regional peer (also at Harvard) that intersects the center's digital well-being agenda through adjacent policy and societal-impact research.

Broad incumbents

• MIT Media Lab: Long-standing interdisciplinary research lab at MIT developing technologies and studying their human impact, including work on learning, wellbeing, and digital experiences. Broad incumbent operating at a much larger scale in overlapping research domains.
• Child Mind Institute: Non-profit organization providing clinical care and producing widely cited resources on children's mental health, including the impact of screens and digital media. Broad incumbent in children's mental health that addresses digital well-being as one component of a larger mandate.

Emerging players

• Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children's Media: Non-profit focused on early childhood development and the role of media and technology in children's lives. Emerging player in a narrower early-childhood segment of the youth digital well-being space.
• Digital Wellness Institute: Organization producing research, training, and certification programs around digital well-being in workplace and educational contexts. Emerging player with partial thematic overlap, more oriented toward practitioner training than pure research.

Others

• Pew Research Center: Non-partisan research organization producing influential data and reports on technology use, including teens and digital media. Ecosystem-relevant as a major producer of underlying data the center's research would build upon.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Digi_Thriving

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