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  • Resource
  • Austrian Safer Internet Centre
  • 15 January 2025

This guide is for anyone involved in developing child protection policies. It aims to ensure that as few of the digital aspects that are so important in the lives of children and young people as possible are overlooked. The guide focuses on six key issues: content development and media work, social media activities, online communication with children and young people, media use and media education, media literacy and data protection.

  • Research and report
  • advertising/commercialism, conduct-related issues, content creation, hate speech, suicide
  • 10 September 2024

This report presents findings from a qualitative survey based on focus groups with young people and parents about their experiences of harmful online content. This study, conducted by the Norwegian Media Authority (Medietilsynet), was carried out in Oslo in November 2023. Eleven 13–15-year-olds and their parents were interviewed in two separate focus groups.

  • Norway

  • policy and decision makers
  • BIK+ strategy pillar 1 - protection
  • Rule and guideline
  • access, inequalities and vulnerabilities, data privacy, digital and socia-cultural environment, media literacy education, policy and regulation

The Digital Austria Act establishes a digital work programme with 117 measures and 35 principles for digitalisation in the country. It encompasses an analysis of law suitability for digital processes, public administrative reforms, and adaptation to technologies. Moreover, it is based on a digital accessibility principle that includes the entire population, especially people with disabilities
(Source: Website).

  • Austria

  • Implemented 2023 - Ongoing
  • BIK+ strategy pillar 1 - protection
  • Rule and guideline
  • content-related issues, policy and regulation, potentially harmful content

The E-Commerce Act establishes regulations and limitations to online advertisements, such as restrictions for alcohol and tobacco, as well as potentially harmful content for minors. In addition, it states limitations to influencers, determining that they must include label advertising and name the advertiser in digital media.
(Source: BIK Policy Monitor 2024).

Entities responsible for implementation: Federal Chancellery Republic of Austria / Bundeskanzleramt Österreich

  • Austria

  • Implemented 2022 - Ongoing
  • BIK+ strategy pillar 1 - protection
  • Rule and guideline
  • advertising/commercialism, commerce-related issues, policy and regulation, potentially harmful content

In Austria - as in almost all European countries - there is a dual system for the restriction of advertising, consisting, on the one hand, of legal regulations and, on the other hand, of self-restriction guidelines. The code of ethics of the advertising industry represents a core part of the Austrian system for the protection of consumers against the misuse of advertising. Self-disciplinary mechanisms of the advertising industry serve to monitor and correct aberrations and undesirable developments in advance of and at the margins of the legal provisions.

  • Austria

  • Implemented 2021 - Ongoing
  • BIK+ strategy pillar 1 - protection
  • Research and report
  • cyberbullying, data privacy, internet usage, media literacy education, practices and engagement, risks and harms
  • 01 January 2024

To gain more insight into the issues at play at the intersection of children’s rights and digitalization, UNICEF the Netherlands has partnered with Leiden University and Stichting Kennisnet to publish a collection of essays. In these essays, experts reflect on a variety of issues involving children’s rights in the digital world.

  • Netherlands

  • teachers educators and professionals
  • BIK+ strategy pillar 1 - protection
  • Resource
  • Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Institute of Computer Science
  • 17 September 2020

An educational fairy tale addressed to children aged 4-8 years old that teaches them interactively the meaning of personal data and the importance of protecting them online

  • Resource
  • Centre of Information Technologies in Education
  • 20 August 2020

„Amber Alert“ policijos ekspertų tinklo nariai pristato prevencinį filmuką, skirtą vaikams ir paaugliams (nuo 10 metų amžiaus). Šis filmukas yra patalpintas oficialioje Facebook „Amber Alert“ paskyroje bei išverstas į nacionalines kalbas. 23 valstybės, tame tarpe ir Lietuva, patvirtino savo dalyvavimą šioje prevencinėje akcijoje. Pagrindinis filmuko tikslas – parodyti, kad interneto platybėse ne viskas yra taip, kaip atrodo, būtina saugoti save ir savo asmeninę informaciją.

  • Resource
  • Media Council for Children and Young People
  • 09 July 2020

GDPR - WHAT? is an online teaching material targeted 3rd-9th grade. It supports teachers in engaging in dialogue with their students about the GDPR and digital self-defense. Through a variety of activities with films, podcasts and group discussions, children and young people are encouraged to think critically about how and where they share their personal data online.
For the younger students, the focus is on understanding what you share when you are online, whereas the older students focus on digital rights in relation the GDPR.

  • Resource
  • Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Institute of Computer Science
  • 18 May 2020

A leaflet which explains why it’s important to do everything you can to improve your online account security and how two-factor-authentication 2FA works

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