Guidelines for
Parents and educators
Guidelines for
Parents and educators
Guidelines on Child Online Protection
keeping
children safe
online
Welcome to the Child Online Protection
Guidelines Website!
Read more about the four sets of the 2020 Child Online Protection Guidelines, find relevant additional information targeting children, parents and educators, industry and policy-makers and browse through further resources.
What's New
Training Modules
In partnership with the National Cybersecurity Authority of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, ITU and partners are launching a set of online self-paced trainings on child online protection, geared towards the following target groups:
parents, educators, policy-makers, ICT industry, and children themselves (aged 9-12, and 13-15 and 16-18).
Online training for children aged 9 to 12 years old is out! ENROLL HERE
Online training for children aged 13 to 15 years old is out ENROLL HERE
Online training for children aged 16 to 18 years old is out ENROLL HERE
Click here to discover more about the trainings and our new releases:
Our app and game for children
Online training on Children's Rights and Business in the digital environment is out! Click here for more details.
The trainings for parents, carers, educators and policymakers are accessible on the ITU Academy here.
Click here to discover more about the new language versions of the trainings.
Stay tuned looking out for new trainings coming soon!
NEW!
NEW!
The ITU Global Programme on Child Online Protection & Online Safety with Sango for Kids!
We are pleased to announce the release of Online Safety with Sango course for children.
The Online Safety Course with Sango is part of the Global Child Online Protection Project with the objective of implementing the 2020 Child Online Protection Guidelines globally.
The newly created Implementation page includes more details surrounding the Global Child Online Protection Programme, including a Concept note, the work streams, a timeline, infographics and more.
Click here to discover more about the Global Child Online Protection Programme!
Watch the video lessons,
and more exciting material here!
A complete set of tools
The ITU Child Online Protection Guidelines were released by ITU in all official UN languages (Arabic, Chinese, French, English, Russian and Spanish).
Thanks to ITU's Global Programme and the efforts of individual member states and stakeholders, the ITU Child Online Protection Guidelines are furthermore available in 25 languages: Albanian, Amazigh, Amharic, Armenian, Aymara, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Dutch, Hungarian, Indonesian Bahasa, Kyrgyz, Lithuanian, Maltese, Mongolian (including sign language), Nigerian, Quechua, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Serbian, Swahili, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Uzbek.
About Child Online Protection
The explosion of information and communication technologies (ICTs) has created unprecedented opportunities for children and young people to communicate, socialize, share, learn, access information and express their opinions on matters that affect their lives and their communities, while at the same time posing significant challenges to children’s safety.
In a world where the Internet permeates almost every aspect of life, keeping young users safe online has emerged as an increasingly urgent issue.
ITU developed its very first set of Child Online Protection Guidelines in 2009. Since then, the Internet has evolved beyond all recognition. While it has become an infinitely richer resource for children to play and learn, today’s children face many risks online.
The ITU Guidelines on Child Online Protection are a comprehensive set of recommendations for all relevant stakeholders on how to contribute to the development of a safe and empowering online environment for children and young people.
While the Internet has become an infinitely richer resource for children to play and learn
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it has also become a much more dangerous place for them to venture unaccompanied.
Child Online Protection Guidelines for policy-makers
Aiming at raising awareness on the scope of child online protection, while providing resources and actual tools that support children and their families in the development of digital skills and digital literacy and that additionally support industry and government stakeholders in the development of corporate and national child online protection policies & strategies.
In an age where more and more young people are coming online, the updated Child Online Protection Guidelines are more vital than ever. Since families, including children, the private sector as well as government stakeholders - all play a crucial role in children’s online safety, the ITU Child Online Protection Guidelines are dedicated to each of these key players.
Targeting children, parents and educators, industry and policy-makers, the Child Online Protection Guidelines are meant to act as a blueprint, which can be adapted and used in a way that is consistent with national or local customs and laws.
As the nature and impact of ICTs is borderless, promoting online safety requires global efforts, through collaboration from all stakeholders at the local, national, regional and international level.
Partnership
The Guidelines on Child Online Protection have been co-authored by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and a working group of contributing authors from leading institutions active in the sector of information and communication technologies (ICT) as well as in child (online) protection and rights.
With the support of:
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