A healthier internet requires many organizations working in concert: no single entity holds the solution
Convened by the Digital Wellness Lab, the Inspired Internet Pledge brings together tech and media companies, advertisers, and AI developers with the nonprofits, researchers, and advocacy organizations working alongside them. The community is organized around three pillars:
Principle 1
Tune for Emotional Wellbeing
Pledge members commit to building healthier products and experiences for young people, informed by how they affect mental, social, and emotional health.
Signatories work to understand how their products, services, policies, and advertising affect young people’s wellbeing, and use that understanding to inform how they design, build, and evolve them.
Advisors bring research, clinical, and practice expertise that helps the community interpret and apply wellbeing evidence in context.
The Digital Wellness Lab shares its latest research on how digital products and experiences affect young people’s mental, social, and emotional health, and convenes the community around translating research into practice.
Principle 2
Listen & Act On Insights from Youth
Pledge members commit to ensuring young people’s voices shape the products, policies, and conversations that affect their lives.
Signatories listen to and learn from young people to inform how they build and improve products and policies.
Advisors contribute their direct experience working with young people and the communities that support them, helping ground the community’s work in lived reality.
The Digital Wellness Lab facilitates direct engagement between the Pledge community and young people through Amplify Youth, including the annual Amplify Youth Summit, the Student Advisory Council, and other youth voice-driven initiatives.
Principle 3
Share Lessons Collaboratively
Pledge members commit to sharing research, best practices, and lessons learned with one another.
Signatories share best practices, challenges, and creative solutions with the Pledge community.
Advisors share knowledge, resources, and frameworks from their areas of expertise to support Signatories’ efforts and strengthen the community’s evidence base.
The Digital Wellness Lab convenes and facilitates the exchange through quarterly convenings, the Pledge Slack workspace, and peer roundtables, creating space for open conversation under Chatham House Rules.
The #InspiredInternet Community
Pledge Signatories
Signatories are tech and media companies, advertisers, AI developers, and other organizations that play a meaningful role in the digital ecosystem. By joining the Pledge, Signatories publicly state that they are actively working to make their products, services, policies, and advertising healthier through evidence-based, youth-centered design.
Pledge Advisors
Advisors are nonprofits, research organizations, and advocacy groups with expertise in youth wellbeing, digital safety, media literacy, and related fields. They participate alongside Signatories in convenings and roundtables, providing perspective and resources that ground the community’s work in evidence and practice.
Statement of Intent
Every Signatory and Advisor provides a public Statement of Intent, published on their Inspired Internet Pledge profile page. Signatory statements describe what they are working on related to youth digital wellbeing and why they joined the Pledge. Advisor statements describe the research, perspective, or practice expertise they bring to the community and why they joined the Pledge. Pledge members review and update their Statement of Intent as part of an annual reaffirmation process.
Included in Membership
- Connection with peer companies and organizations across the youth digital wellbeing space
- A dedicated Slack workspace for collaboration with fellow Signatories and Advisors
- Quarterly virtual convenings with DWL researchers and peer organizations
- Opportunities to attend in-person convenings and workshops hosted by Signatories, Advisors, and the Lab
- Opportunities to participate in and shape the Amplify Youth Summit
- A dedicated profile on the Pledge website, including a Statement of Intent and links to your organization’s work
- A trustmark to include in communications
Join us in making the internet a healthier place
Joining the Inspired Internet Pledge declares your company’s commitment to making the internet a safer and healthier place for everyone, especially young people.