BAI YOUTH BUILDERS · AGES 14–24 · IN DEVELOPMENT
Choose a real question, form a team and turn your idea into a working product or service.
BAI Youth Builders is a programme model being developed for young people to combine different skills around shared questions and turn ideas into products that can be tested and improved.
Current status
In development · Applications are not open
The programme idea, age paths, proposed stages, safety requirements and example questions are published. There is no live cohort, open call, appointed guide team or verified pilot with real participants. This page describes a design that remains open to review and correction; it is not a promise of delivery.
Ways to contribute
You do not have to be a developer. The new internet needs many kinds of knowledge and craft working together.
Games and interaction
Make a question visible through a game, simulation or interactive learning experience.
Media and storytelling
Create responsible video, audio, visual, editorial or multilingual content.
Code and digital tools
Build a website, mobile application, automation or open digital tool.
Research and knowledge
Prepare a sourced guide, collection, learning path or verifiable knowledge project.
Data, models and agents
Develop a dataset, evaluation, model or agent prototype with clear limits and human oversight.
Design and SEDD
Shape a product so that it is understandable, accessible, privacy-aware and safe to use.
The human side
Know what you are making, why it matters and whom it serves.
Name your sources, carry your task within the team, protect privacy, acknowledge mistakes and do not hand responsibility for decisions to a machine.
Tools and making
Learn today’s tools and use them for the right work.
Code, games, media, research, data and model-based tools are not the goal. They assist meaningful and responsible work.
Two youth paths
Your age, the responsibility you can carry and the support you need shape the path.
The 14–17 path focuses on safe teamwork and producing a real project. The 18–24 path adds team leadership, journeyman responsibility and the long-term care of what is made.
Proposed age path · 14–17
Family visibilityBAI Youth Builders
Ages 14–17: a real question, teamwork, workflows, product development, testing and responsible publication.
Example projects
- • Web or mobile product
- • Game
- • Agent prototype
- • Professional support tool
- • Dataset or ontology
Proposed age path · 18–24
Young adult pathBAI Young Pioneers
Ages 18–24: team leadership, facilitating a Circle, journeyman responsibility, and WAQF or NEMA continuation paths.
Example projects
- • Institutional project
- • Open product
- • Venture prototype
- • Supervised guidance for a younger team
A supported first role
Starting as a yamak
Yamak is the name we use for a supported first role. It does not make a child or young person a low-value helper or a source of unpaid labour. It is a safe way to observe a new field, ask questions, take on small tasks and learn the EDEB of making alongside a master or journeyman.
Responsibility grows with age, skill, team experience and the ability to care for the consequences of the work. Becoming a Builder is not gaining a title; it means carrying more responsibility for sources, limits, mistakes, correction and maintenance.
Proposed programme path
A path designed to move from an introduction to a Builder circle, then to a shared question and a working product.
- 01
Introduction
Proposed duration: 4–6 weeks · Weekly
Choose a way to contribute and an age path, then make your first safe prototype.
- 02
Builder foundations
Proposed duration: 12 weeks · Weekly
Develop human responsibility, tool use, source practice, teamwork and production skills together.
- 03
Builder circle
Proposed duration: Continuing · Weekly or fortnightly
Take on different roles in a continuing team and contribute to other people’s work as well as your own.
- 04
Mission Lab
Proposed duration: 6–8 weeks · Sprint rhythm
Research a real question, listen to the people affected and build a testable response.
- 05
Build Studio
Proposed duration: 12–16 weeks · Release rhythm
Turn the prototype into a working product, test it, improve it and prepare a responsible publication decision.
- 06
WAQF or NEMA
Proposed duration: Continuing · Periodic review
Open the work to HAYR or establish a path for its care and sustainability.
Questions for shared work
One question can bring different professions, languages and production skills into the same team.
These records are not open calls for participation. They are examples of questions future teams could work on. The aim is to understand a real need in a family, school, profession or community and seek a response together.
Question for future work · Participation is not open
Protecting Children’s Digital Privacy
Carry the digital safety of children and families as a shared MİLLET responsibility.
Read the Mission file →Question for future work · Participation is not open
Family Life and Screens
Protect time, attention and relationships at home through shared experience and practical service.
Read the Mission file →Question for future work · Participation is not open
A Safe and Responsible Internet
Renew the internet as a shared space for knowledge and service through trustworthy sources and human responsibility.
Read the Mission file →Question for future work · Participation is not open
BAI and Responsible Representation in Schools
Bring teachers, families and young people together around responsible learning and shared production.
Read the Mission file →Question for future work · Participation is not open
BAI Centred on Human Responsibility
Make human responsibility and accountability a shared standard in knowledge and technology production.
Read the Mission file →Question for future work · Participation is not open
WAQF Production and Open Benefit
Open knowledge, tools and effort to shared HAYR and service, not only to private gain.
Read the Mission file →Age-appropriate safety and responsibility
Privacy, safety and human oversight are part of how the product is made, not a final checkpoint.
For participants under 18, accounts, communication, personal data and publication are considered separately. No model is presented as the final decision-maker, teacher, friend or religious authority.
Age-appropriate accounts
Tools and accounts are chosen around the participant’s age, the provider’s data policy and, where required, family consent.
Official communication
There is no unsupervised private messaging or unrecorded meeting with participants under 18.
Privacy and data
Personal data is kept to a minimum; sensitive information is not used in prototypes, tests or model inputs.
A separate publication decision
The product, a participant’s name, image and voice each require permission whose scope is clear.
Human responsibility
A model can produce an output; meaning, judgement, publication and responsibility for consequences remain human.
Challenge and correction
Participants can question content, team decisions or publication, with a visible path for correction and withdrawal.
Who should guide this programme?
Teachers, guides, masters and journeymen have different roles; together they create a place to learn and make.
The BAI Guild for Children and Youth Guidance is still being formed. It has no appointed members, boards or programme team. The proposed guild should develop the programme language, tools, circles and safeguarding boundaries together. Professional mastery alone does not authorise someone to work with children; continuing guidance also requires pedagogical and safeguarding competence.
Teacher
Introduces core ideas and skills in language suited to the age group.
Guide
Supports the participant’s direction, team relationships and growing responsibility.
Master
Brings real professional experience from games, code, media, data or another field of making.
Journeyman
Works alongside the team in day-to-day production and connects beginners with the master.
Circle facilitator
Keeps the meeting rhythm, task-sharing and continuity working.
Safeguarding lead
Follows the age, privacy, communication, tool-use and publication boundaries.
Explore the programme model and the questions proposed for future teams.
BAI Youth Builders is not currently accepting applications. There is no live circle or appointed mentor team. This page explains the path being developed and the responsibilities it must carry.