With a new study suggesting the average person checks their phone between 50 and 100 times a day and spends around three hours a day looking at a mobile device, is the world in need of a digital detox?
On this episode of The Agenda, Juliet Mann looks at whether we have all become slaves to our mobile devices, and what can be done to address our online addictions. And as the world works to bridge the digital divide, what can be done to ensure developing nations don't pick up the developed world's bad habits?
At this year's G20 summit in Indonesia, the Y20 – the G20's youth wing – called for the introduction of a global digital wellbeing charter by 2023. China's Y20 delegate, Xu Yekai explains why the world's youths are so focused on ensuring a healthy approach to the digital world.
Daria Kuss, Associate Professor in Psychology at Nottingham Trent University also joins the program to consider the warning signs that we're growing too attached to our mobile devices.
And Yichen Rao, postdoctoral research fellow at the Lieberthal Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan explains why China may have the answer to digital addiction – laws restricting the hours young people can spend on their devices.