July 17, 2024 [LONDON]: Today, survivors of childhood sexual violence will address the escalating threat to children’s lives posed by online abuse, and call for action to ‘redesign’ the internet and protect children ahead of the first ever global Ministerial on the issue in November 2024. This is a pivotal moment to redefine the digital world for children, ensuring that technology is used for their benefit and never for their harm.
Our grantees Thorn Global CSAM Classifier Development Program Countries involved:United States of America Supported by Safe Online’s investments, Thorn has accelerated the development of their artificial intelligence classifiers, which are working to automate the detection of CSAM. Through this project, Thorn aimed to create a global standard for labelling, connecting
Our grantees SaferNet Brazil D.I.S.C.O.V.E.R: Deploying Innovative Searchability to fight Child Online Violence and Exploitation through evidence-based Research in Brazil Countries involved:Brasil SaferNet Brasil’s “D.I.S.C.O.V.E.R project” will create a sandbox for researchers, build new training datasets in the Portuguese language and allow trusted partners to develop cross-platform contextual and evidence-based
Our grantees ChildFund International Countries involved:October 2017 – October 2019 ChildFund Kenya’s Safe CLICS project will address key gaps by increasing OCSEA awareness, building children’s and youth’s online safety skills, improving service providers’, schools’, communities’, parents’ and caregivers’ abilities to detect and respond to OCSEA, strengthening Kenya’s national framework and improving
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