How can technology be harnessed to help young people & “mental wealth”?
- Last updated: 22 August 2011
22 August 2011
If you’re over 30, you belong to the last generation to know a world without computers.
It’s no surprise that at the National Press Club last week we heard that if we want to harness technology to improve the mental health of young people, they need to teach us how.
Click here to read an edited version of the address given by Associate Professor Jane Burns, Chief Executive Officer of the new Cooperative Research Centre for Young People, Technology and Wellbeing (YAW-CRC), titled: The Happiness Highway: Leveraging technologies to improve wellbeing for young Australians
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