These guidelines contain regulatory measures that aim to ensure that influencers follow the specific requirements related to media services. This is being done to extend transparency and compliance regulations to influencers.
(Source: Resolution 7/24).
Entities responsible for implementation: Italian Communications Authority / Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni.
Futura is the educational branch of the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), setting six reforms and ten plans to invest in a new educational system that includes digital skills and guarantees the right to education. The measures relate, in fact, to the most strategic aspects of education: the reorganization of the school system, the training of staff, recruitment procedures, the guidance system, the reorganization of technical and professional institutes and Higher Technical Institutes (ITS).
In Italy, Law 71 of 2017 was established to combat cyberbullying in all its manifestations. Law 71 gives the Ministry of Education the task of coordinating an inter-ministerial table that creates an action plan for activities against cyberbullying every two years. The measure outlines a strategic approach to online bullying while focusing on preventive measures.
(Source: BIK Policy Monitor 2024).
Entities responsible for implementation: Italian Government / Governo Italiano.
The National Observatory on Childhood and Adolescence (Osservatorio Nazionale per l'Infanzia e l'Adolescenza) is a national body that coordinates national, regional, and local associations, and non-governmental organisations targeted at children.
The activities of the Safer Internet Centre through the #BoljiOnline (eng. #BetterOnline) platform have stepped up. The work of the counseling centre in Zagreb, located in the heart of the city at Gajeva 2b, Zagreb, Croatia (above the A1 Centre), will focus on providing support to children and young people, as well as professionals and parents in need of advice on safe and responsible internet usage, as well as in cases of cyberbullying.
The National Digital School Plan is a fundamental pillar of La Buona Scuola (law 107/2015), an operational vision that reflects the Government's position on the most important innovation challenges of the public system: at the heart of this vision are the innovation of the school system and the opportunities of digital education. The plan promotes digital inclusion by implementing reforms aimed at the digital age. It aims to create a school vision that supports digital skills and technologies as tools for innovation and empowerment.
(Source: National Plan for Digital Education).
MIC-MAC is a project aiming at enhancing the media and information literacy skills of educators who work with vulnerable learners. It combines ‘micro-learning’ with interactive gaming to help educators apply these skills to the challenges of real-life teaching situations and the ‘lived experience’ of their learners.
The National Framework for Children and Young People’s Participation in Decision-making supports government departments, agencies and organisations to improve their practice in listening to children and young people and giving them a voice in decision-making. It was developed as a collaboration between the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Hub na nÓg and Professor Laura Lundy of Queens University, Belfast.
A Guide for Parents and Parents Associations who wish to engage with their school community regarding internet safety and access to smartphones for primary school children. This guide has been prepared for parents of primary school age children who wish to come together to support their child/ren’s online safety through creating a voluntary agreement around the use of smartphones and other devices.
(Source: Department of Education).
Entities responsible for implementation: Department of Education.
The Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Act 2020, also known as Coco’s Law, was signed into law by the President on the 28th December 2020 and was commenced in full on the 10th February 2021. The Act amended the law relating to harassment, specifically section 10 of the Non-Fatal Offences against the Person Act 1997, the Bail Act 1997 and the Domestic Violence Act 2018. It provides for offences in relation to the recording, distribution or publication of intimate images without consent, as well as providing for the anonymity of victims of these offences.
