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News - The Digital Wellbeing Award, which builds on the Cyber Resilience and Internet Safety (CR-IS) Badge, was launched by the Digital Schools Award scheme in 2019. It has been revised to place greater emphasis on digital wellbeing — the impact of using digital technology on…
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News - Elsagate is a phenomenon on Youtube of reoccurring themes, animations and videos of inappropriate topics, available and targeted at children.
Origins and a short history
Elsagate existed since at least 2012 but reached its peak in 2017 when the term…
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Multimedia - 5Rights Foundation launches a new campaign with the title of Twisted Toys to raise awareness of the dangers children facing in the online world. On their website, each toy represents a kind of exploitation, surveillance and danger that children face…
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News - Reuters published that due to a new, planned law the social media companies would be fined up to 10% of turnover or 18 million pounds if they do not eradicate the discovered online abuses, such as hate crimes, harassment, the senior managers could also face criminal action…
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News - #CovidUnder19 initiative launched this petition to World Leaders
We, the undersigned children, young people and adult allies, are writing this open letter to our leaders in order to share evidence and experiences about children and young people’s…
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Event - According to The Digital Marketing Institute, The NSPCC and Ofcom (UK) reports 6 in 10 teens trust influencers more than traditional celebrities and more than 74% of 8–15-year-olds using YouTube with 40% of their YouTube content deriving from bloggers.
As…
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News - Baroness Beeban Kidron, the chair and founder of 5Rights Foundation, in her speech at the Digital Age 2021 conference raised major concerns about the online protection of children.
The culture of the internet requires kids to reveal increasingly more…
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News - According to available information, between 1.14 million and 1.78 million children in the UK do not have access to a laptop, desktop, or tablet at home, and that more than 880,000 children live in a household that only has a mobile internet connection and even around 190,000…
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Online library - The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the largest mass disruption of education in history and worsened the global learning crisis. In April 2020, more than 190 countries set national school closures, putting up to 1.6 billion students…
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Multimedia - A national information and awareness campaign on the phenomenon of bullying in schools from the Republic of Moldova was launched by Terre des hommes Foundation: STOP BULLYING! I stop. I talk. I Help.
According to a study, about 87%…
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News - The ongoing danger of children being exposed to online perpetrators has increased during COVID-related lockdowns. Children who spend more time on the internet and lack supervision are more likely to become victims, says Catherine De Bolle,…
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Multimedia - Parents are often worried about how much time their child spends online and what he does while surfing the net. Luckily, there are some restriction options that can be activated to prevent harmful content from being exposed to children. These options are offered by the…
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Multimedia - A short but useful guidance that helps you learn how to practice video calls with children, teenagers, their parents or even other professionals. The two-paged visual document gives you tips on how to prepare yourself and your partner(s) for the call, and how to…
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Multimedia - This report calls for the Gambling Act to be reviewed and the in-game money transactions be considered as gambling. Children’s Commissioner’s Office has already indicated that children spend a big amount of money on buying in-game items or loot boxes, and their…
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News - For the occasion of End Child Sex Abuse Day Marija Pejcinovic Buric Secretary-General from Council of Europe has spoken against the phenomenon of “sexy selfies” posted by children.
She highlights the need to…
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News - Social media has become an indispensable part of our lives that helps us to feel connected with the world. Yet, social media has also resulted in several problems as its users are becoming increasingly addicted. According to Rebecca Lendl,…
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Online library - Bullying used to happen mostly in schools – now it can follow children anywhere they go. According to the Office for National Statistics’ latest report on online bullying based on a Crime Survey for England and Wales, around one in five children aged 10 to 15 years…
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News - Human trafficking is a serious and worrying issue, especially for women and girls, who comprise more than 70% of traffic victims due to sexual exploitation. A link was recently found between human trafficking and online abuse; around 40% of traffic…
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Online library - Adrienne Katz (Youthworks) in collaboration with Aiman El Asam (Kingston University, London) carried out a significant work on the relation of young people and online safety in their research, called Cybersurvey, The Digital Lives of Schoolchildren (https://www.…
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News - 113 tablets with Internet connection and prepaid Zoom account until the end of 2020-2021 academic year; 30 smart TVs; the first batch of 30,000 masks and 200 litres of disinfectant and 30 sets of teaching aids and supplies - all these items will be distributed by…
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Webinar - About the webinar:
Zagreb Child and Youth Protection Center, in collaboration with the City of Zagreb Health Office and the Society for Communication and Media Culture, conducted a national research project “Online Social Experiences and Mental Health of…
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News - The Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) is one of the EU's leading regulatory authorities responsible for protecting the privacy of individuals on the Internet. They also have the power to impose heavy fines (2018).
DPC is investigating whether Facebook has a legal…
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News - Technology and digital networks are part of our life, there is no question about that. The Playing IT Safe is a tool which aims to help parents, carers and educators to teach children through activities and play, how to stay safe online. It…
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Online library - COVID-19 pandemic makes things more difficult for all people like social distancing, but in the same time, it helps to be more creative and rapidly adapted using video call and camera in the proper way to help and…
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News - Since the beginning of the year, the Cybercrime Investigation Department officers of the National Investigation Inspectorate have initiated 31 criminal cases regarding the abuse and sexual exploitation of children online. Police warn about the high degree of danger…
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News - The Center for the Rights of the Child has developed a digital platform adapted to children, which contains relevant information on the prevention and protection of children from sexual exploitation and abuse on the Internet.
The platform informs children about procedures,…
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Multimedia - While online gaming is popular and fun, it can expose children to harm or risk. UKie and Thinkuknow teamed up to give advice about online games and chat.
Online games are social activities and communicating is an essential part of them. The chat…
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News - In Sarajevo, in the week from June 8 to June 11, organized by the Faculty of Criminology, Criminology and Security Studies, Save the Children, UNICEF and the International Solidarity Forum - EMMAUS, as part of the EVAC (end violence against the children) project…
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Multimedia - Akili Interactive’s EndeavorRX it’s the first video game that can legally be marketed and prescribed as medicine in the US.
After it underwent seven years of clinical trials that studied over 600 children to figure out whether a game could actually make a difference,…
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Multimedia - The Hungarian Safer Internet Centre published a new short video on online bullying as part of the European Union Better Internet for Kids programme. The aim of the programme is to enable children with creative learning methods to learn…
