Better Internet for Kids

Faced with the scale of the task of raising awareness in a territory as vast as France, we realised we could maximise our actions by engaging our ecosystem. Indeed, as our daily mission is to create and provide free, accessible awareness-raising material available to all, we decided to create a special Ambassador Programme that our partners from the non-formal education world could easily join.

For two years, we've decided to use Instagram as a direct communication channel with parents. We've created several digital parenting resources to provide support for behaviour change in families. We've gone beyond the awareness-raising activities carried out by schools, and our aim now is to make ourselves known and distribute our content to as many people as possible.

The 2019 National Media Education Policy of Finland identifies social polarisation and racism as problems that need to be addressed in media education.

Portugal is the home of the Web Summit, which offers a cornucopia of talks on every tech-related topic imaginable. Startups, investors, industry experts and tech enthusiasts gathered to network, share ideas, and look ahead to a week of exciting talks. According to Katherine Maher, the new CEO of Web Summit, “We’ve brought together tens of thousands of people who have used this week in Lisbon as a springboard to do remarkable things”. The event allows innovators “to launch companies, find investors, unveil projects, and advance a vision of the world worth debating”.

Over the last two years, our Contact Point partners, as well as various actors involved in the protection of minors online and NGOs, have noticed a sharp increase in reports of intimate content involving minors. We must pay attention to the psychological consequences the dissemination of such content can have on victims.

On 30 October 2023, the second phase of #LerAntesClicarDepois was presented at the Digital Skills Forum in Porto. A phishing video was shown, the first of 10 short animated videos on various topics. The initiative of the Secretary of State for Digitisation and Administrative Modernisation, Mário Campolargo, and the National Centre for Cybersecurity (CNCS), which coordinates the Safer Internet Centre (CIS), aimed to increase information on the correct use of cyberspace and the Internet among all people and organisations.

At a time when digital media are omnipresent, it is crucial to help children and their parents navigate the media streams. Growing up in the flicker of blue light from digital devices, today's children are not naturally "digital natives"; they need support and skills to navigate the digital environment.

Digital games, played for over 50 years, underwent a significant shift from physical ownership to online libraries with the rise of the internet. This transformation turned games into services, offering additional purchases like character outfits and in-game items. Effective in April, a new code of conduct aims to address financial practices and enhance transparency.

Increasingly often, children and young people share intimate pictures of themselves in WhatsApp class groups. How can parents and schools deal with this?

The recent ‘Respect and Empathy’ exhibition of student artwork was hosted by the renowned Irish artist Maser in his gallery Atelier Now in Dublin, in collaboration with the Irish Safer Internet Centre.