Safer Internet Day South Africa - Pledge Your Support for a Safer Internet!

Play Your Part For A Better Internet

Safer Internet Initiative celebrates the safe, responsible and positive use of digital technology for children and young people. Globally, the Safer Internet Initiative is celebrated in over a hundred countries, coordinated by the joint Insafe/INHOPE network, with the support of the European Commission.

The day offers the opportunity to highlight positive uses of technology and to explore the role we all play in helping to create a better and safer online community. It calls upon young people, parents, carers, educators, social workers, law enforcement, companies, policy-makers, and wider, to join together in helping to create a better and safer internet.

Creating Public Awareness

The Safer Internet Initiative strives to create public awareness around our responsibility to continually strive to create a safer internet for future generations.

Fight Illegal Content

We fight to make South Africa’s internet safer by reporting and removing online child sex abuse and criminally obscene content hosted within South Africa against the law.

Educate on Harmful Conduct

The Safer Internet Initiative strives to create public awareness around our responsibility to continually strive to create a safer internet for future generations.

Promote Safer Environment

We are a resource to help early years settings, playgroups, nurseries and Children’s centres meet safeguarding requirements around new technologies.

Be the change: unite for a better internet

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The Safer Internet Initiative is important not just for our youth but also for the global community itself. Educators, adults, and caregivers from around the world need to come and work together in order for this initiative to work the way it is supposed to.

Protecting our children should be the number one concern when it comes to the internet. There are a lot of bad people out there in the world and the Safer Internet Initiative is just another way of informing the public about the risks and concerns about the internet, as well as educating others in how to make a better more secure internet around the world.

“After all we must do all that we can, to give our children the best in education and social upbringing – for while they are the youth of today, they shall be the leaders of tomorrow” John F, Kennedy

OUR CAUSES, SPONSORED HARDWARE & SOFTWARE FOR SCHOOLS

Virtuenet

When your child’s device is at school, our location-based Mobile Device Management (MDM) technology will enforce the schools Acceptable Usage Policy and allow school IT staff to have full control. When the device leaves the school premises, the parent policy is activated and can be managed via a parent web portal or parent app for smartphones. What does this all mean you may ask? Put simply, Mobile Device Management for Schools + Parental Control for Parents = Real Protection For Children. At School.

Fibre South African Schools

We are raising funding from our generous sponsors to install fibre networks in schools in South Africa. Installing fibre into schools is a priority that gives hundred of thousands of kids access to e-learning material and resources to further their studies and education.

Educate South African’s Schools

Developing new educational and awareness raising resources for children, parents and carers and teachers to meet emerging trends in the fast-changing online environment. Recent launches include resources focusing on early years, sexting, and ‘how to’ video guides on using parental controls on internet-connected devices.

Developing Tools for Education Centres

We create safety tools for compliance, education and self-assessment for schools across South Africa. Developing self-assessment tools for schools and other settings to evaluate their esafety provision, including policy development;