Relevance to Internet Governance: To protect socio-economic development in an increasingly connected and global world in which the Internet, digitally enabled services, devices and emerging tech are becoming an integral part of economies worldwide, measures to ensure safe Internet play an absolutely critical role. Global web brings many benefits, but it also exposes vulnerable parts of societies, children particularly, to risks and threats online, including different forms of violence, exploitation and abuse. All relevant stakeholders - governments, law enforcement, the private sector, parents, educators, academia, civil society, developers, individuals themselves should be aware of the problem of the creating cybersafety standards and should create communities and indicate the directions of actions to develop such standards. The proposed workshop aims at presenting broad perspective on the standardization for protecting children online, giving opportunity to consider necessary policy adjustments, proposing new ideas, best practices or even giving inspiration for creation of international research and government programmes.
Relevance to Theme: The issue of creating standards for protecting children online is a challenge. It requires taking into consideration multiple aspects concerning privacy, protection of victims, different levels of digital competences in various countries, etc. To solve this problem the cooperation among different types of stakeholders representing research community, lawyers, educators, governments, public organizations, the private sector, etc. The creation of comprehensive cybersafety-centric ecosystem is especially important in concerned with the significantly increase the access to information and communication technology and strive to provide universal and affordable access to the Internet in least developed countries.
