Online safety

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  Making the internet safer for children: the global evidence

  6th February 2018

  On Safer Internet Day 2018, Global Kids Online partners recognise the pressing need to research and support children’s rights in a digital age. To harness the positive potential of children’s internet use and to limit the harm, it is vital to understand how children are developing digital skills and citizenship, and to use the evidence to inform future policy and practice in a way that also includes the voices of children and parents.

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  How can using our research make an impact?

  26th January 2018

  Today Global Kids Online is launching its new impact tools to guide and support researchers in planning effective research impact strategies and activities. These are the result of collaboration with country partners and experts over the past 18 months in a joint effort to find the best ways to use research evidence to support children’s rights in the digital environment.

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  Make the digital world safer for children

  11th December 2017

  Global Kids Online research evidence was used in UNICEF’s annual flagship report on The State of the World’s Children 2017: Children in a digital world launched today. Despite children’s substantial online presence – 1 in 3 internet users worldwide is a child – too little is done to protect them from the perils of the digital world and to increase their access to safe online content, is argued in the report.

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  Impact work in Bulgaria: using evidence to promote digital literacy

  27th October 2017

  Using the evidence from the Global Kids Online study, the Applied Research and Communication Fund chose strategic priorities for their knowledge exchange and impact efforts. Selecting a focus on children’s digital and media literacy, the Fund now utilises a number of long-term partnerships and collaborations towards the effective creation of new educational and training opportunities.

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  Collaborating with UNICEF India on Child Online Safety

  19th January 2017

  UNICEF India are currently conducting an awareness raising campaign on child online safety which builds on the findings of the first comprehensive report on Child Online Protection in India, launched in September 2016. Global Kids Online findings were presented at a recent event – part of the campaign.

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