About The Digital Fluency Collective
The Digital Fluency Collective is a Foundation Layer and CAS Strategies initiative, built in collaboration with partners committed to advancing digital resilience and human agency through people-centered approaches.
Cultivating Digital Resilience in an Era of Constant Change
Technology evolves faster than most people can keep up with, reshaping how we learn, work, connect, and make decisions. The Digital Fluency Collaborative, led by CAS Strategies, helps people and communities build the resilience to navigate that change with clarity and confidence.
While most digital literacy programs focus on technical proficiency, teaching people how to use tools, digital resilience is about sustaining the ability to adapt, question, and recover as those tools, norms, and systems evolve. It is the foundation for agency, trust, and opportunity in a world where both risks and innovations are accelerating.
The Collaborative leverages the strengths of allied organizations to create resources, conversations, and frameworks that strengthen this resilience. The goal is to empower people not just to keep pace with technology but to use it intentionally and well.
Our first resource, The Digital Fluency Toolkit for Families, embodies that mission. Created in collaboration with Girl Security and Bits N’ Bytes Cybersecurity Education, the Toolkit helps families have the kinds of conversations that build confidence, trust, and discernment around technology. It begins where digital resilience truly starts: at home, in the relationships and routines where values meet behavior.
Through practical tools such as the Parent Diagnostic, Conversation Cards, and Digital SOS Guide, the Toolkit helps families align their technology use with their values, strengthen safety habits, and develop the adaptive mindset needed to thrive in an evolving digital world. These same skills—reflection, critical thinking, and intentional engagement—are what communities, educators, and organizations need to stay resilient as technology continues to reshape society.
The next phase of the Digital Fluency Collaborative will expand this work beyond families to reach educators, community leaders, and organizations that want to integrate digital resilience into classrooms, curricula, and workforce programs. By connecting practical tools with shared values, the Collaborative aims to build a culture of intentional technology use where individuals and institutions alike can adapt with integrity, curiosity, and care.
Digital resilience is not just a skill for surviving change. It is how we thrive within it.
Toolkit Overview
The Digital Fluency Toolkit, created in collaboration with Girl Security and Bits N’ Bytes Cybersecurity Education, offers practical guidance for families, educators, and communities navigating the digital world together.
Raising kids in today’s digital world is one of the biggest challenges parents, caregivers, and educators face. The Digital Fluency Toolkit was created to provide tools, reflection exercises, and conversation starters that help adults guide kids with confidence, clarity, and care.
This project brings together insights from cybersecurity, education, and parenting to make digital safety approachable and actionable for busy families and schools.
Collaborators
This toolkit was developed by CAS Strategies and Foundation Layer in collaboration with two partner organizations contributing expertise to advance digital resilience and education.
CAS Strategies is a strategic advisory firm operating at the intersection of cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and the public interest. Founded by national cybersecurity leader Camille Stewart Gloster, CAS Strategies partners with governments, companies, and institutions to strengthen digital resilience and security outcomes through forward-thinking, system-level approaches.
To extend this work beyond advisory engagements, CAS Strategies established Foundation Layer, its independent impact arm dedicated to advancing research, education, and community programs that strengthen digital resilience and human agency. Together, CAS Strategies and Foundation Layer operate across policy, practice, and public engagement, translating insight into action and shaping the conditions for a more resilient digital ecosystem.
With a shared commitment to responsible innovation and long-term impact, the two organizations work in parallel to bridge strategy and execution, institutional leadership and community-driven change.
Girl Security is a nonprofit (501(c)3) building the future of national security through education, training, mentorship, and technology solutions. Centering girls and gender-diverse youth, especially from underrepresented communities, Girl Security prepares the next generation to lead in fields like cybersecurity, technology, and public policy. Through trauma-informed, culturally responsive programming and partnerships with national security organizations, Girl Security builds pathways to leadership and lifelong civic engagement.
Bits N’ Bytes Cybersecurity Education is a nonprofit (501(c)3) dedicated to empowering communities, especially students, with vital cybersecurity knowledge. Through free workshops, animated videos, interactive modules, and curriculum materials, they cover topics like digital safety, digital identity, cybersecurity, and privacy. The program has reached thousands of students across hundreds of schools worldwide and partners with organizations such as IBM, Facebook, and the Girl Scouts to bring engaging, accessible cybersecurity education into classrooms and communities.
Community Champions of the Toolkit
This toolkit has been endorsed and supported by a growing community of educators, nonprofits, and partners committed to digital safety and equity.
“The most powerful safety net in a child’s digital life is the adults they trust.”
— Camille Stewart Gloster
