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"Let’s review what we have learned to make the internet safe for children like us: be responsible users of technology; be careful every time we connect to the internet; learn how to act against cyberbullying; be a good role model and seek help, if needed." (Summary, page 13)
"In enhancing the fight against ICT-facilitated child abuse and exploitation, governments and national authorities may focus on a child protection approach that fully respects human rights; on ensuring that legislation keeps pace with technological innovation; on recruiting, training and maintaining ... more
"Sex offenders know that social media offer new opportunities for contacting children and forming friendships with them. They have also realised how simple it is to take pictures and make videos of sexual abuse and share them with other people with the same sexual interests. Digital information tech ... more
"This handbook is a compilation of advice from child psychologists and the police and also the personal narratives of people who have been subjected to abuse. We hope this book will make it easier for adults to talk to children about the risks of the internet. We also hope it will inspire you and he ... more
"The way you design your service can have a real impact on children and young people. The type of safeguards shown in this guide lead to immediate positive benefits (e.g. limiting exposure to inappropriate content) and longer-term effects (such as helping users to understand how to share their infor ... more
"Keeping Children Safe Online (KCSO) is an evidence-based practice that establishes sustainable child protection mechanisms to mitigate the risks of children to online abuse and exploitation.World Vision uses the practice to work with children, parents, teachers, law enforcement, civil society and g ... more
"As part of its ongoing commitment to fighting online child sexual abuse content and, in particular, to helping its members realise the objectives of the Mobile Alliance Against Child Sexual Abuse Content, the GSMA has worked with INHOPE, Save the Children, ECPAT, IWF, Net Safe Latvia, Meldpunt, ICM ... more
"This guide is intended for use by international NGOs who want to use social media with children and the youth that they work with. This may include developing children’s skills and capacity, using social media as a development tool for a community project, providing access to technology, or offer ... more

Internet Policies: Online Child Protection and Empowerment in a Global Context

In: The Routledge International Handbook of Children, Adolescents and Media
London; New York: Routledge (2013), pp. 395-402
"Four Terre des Hommes Netherlands researchers spent 10 weeks posing as prepubertal Filipino girls on 19 public chat rooms. During that short period, a total of 20,172 predators from 71 countries committed crimes by soliciting the Webcam child sex tourism (WCST) research researchers, whom the predat ... more
"The research explored children’s online behaviour, risks and vulnerability to harm, documenting existing preventive and protective measures to combat their online abuse and exploitation. The study draws on lessons from high- and middle-income countries, viewed through the lens of the dynamic that ... more
"This compilation has been divided into four chapters. The first chapter briefly explains what a child helpline is, draws attention to the key elements of a child helpline and attempts to answer some of the questions you may have regarding particular activities of a child helpline and about getting ... more
"This report focuses on online risks for children and policies to protect them as Internet users. It examines direct and indirect policy measures available to OECD member and non-member countries to help mitigate risks for children online in order to: • Present and compare existing and planned pol ... more
"This report presents the full findings from a new and unique survey designed and conducted according to rigorous standards by the EU Kids Online network. It was funded by the European Commissions¡¦ Safer Internet Programme in order to strengthen the evidence base for policies regarding online saf ... more
"While the safety of children and young people in digital spaces has become an important issue of qualitative as well as quantitative research in the developed world and has led to a significant body of knowledge, the research efforts in the developing nations, with few exceptions, are still relativ ... more