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General Comment No. 25 of the Committee on the Rights of the Child focuses on children's rights in relation to the digital environment as adopted by United Nations in 2021. This comment addresses the need to protect and promote children's rights in the context of increasing digitalization, ensuring that children have safe and fair access to digital technologies. Panama has been an active participant in this commentary. Through the National Secretariat for Children, Adolescents, and Family (SENNIAF), Panama held awareness-raising seminars in 2021 addressing topics such as children's rights with a focus on digital rights, safe internet use, and digital citizenship. This study aims to evaluate the level of knowledge about digital rights that Middle School teachers and students acquired during the awareness-raising seminars provided by SENNIAF. From a total of 22 schools, a non-probabilistic random sample of nine schools was selected from the metropolitan educational area of Panama City and West Panama, surveying 367 students. The survey was designed as a closed questionnaire consisting of eight questions related to Digital Rights. Once the data were collected, the data was classified and distributed, and tables were created illustrating the data. The results indicate that students and teachers identify their rights and the protections to which they are entitled when using the Internet, although it is necessary to strengthen discussion on the topic among them. It is highlighted, among other aspects, that children and adolescents have the right to play games and have fun online with other children and adolescents within a limited time and under parental supervision.
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