Creating a safer connected world: Parents and carers

International Day of Families 2021

BIK Team

15 May marks the United Nations International Day of Families. It offers the opportunity to raise awareness around issues related to families and the social, economic, and demographic processes affecting them. This year’s theme is the impact of new technologies on the well-being of families.

Celebrating a great Safer Internet Day in Spain

Spanish Safer Internet Centre

The traditional Safer Internet Day (SID) celebration in Spain was marked, for the first time, with an online event due to ongoing COVID-19 restrictions. INCIBE, the coordinator of the Spanish Safer Internet Centre (SIC), hosted the event over two days, 9-10 February 2021, under the slogan of “Together for a better internet: more connected, more secure”.

International Girls in ICT Day 2021

BIK Team

Thursday, 22 April 2021 is the International Girls in ICT Day. This global initiative of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) aims at raising awareness of empowering and encouraging girls and young women to consider careers and studies in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs).

A hybrid strategy for marking Safer Internet Day in Russia

Russian Safer Internet Centre

In 2021, Safer Internet Day (SID) in Russia was again held in the traditional form of Safe Runet Week, well known since 2008. Although some COVID-related restrictions for mass events were still in place, generally the programme for the week stayed as intensive as before the pandemic. The main difference was a shift for most events to online and the adoption of a “hybrid” strategy, having both offline and online participation in Safer Internet Day activities.

Webinar on sexuality and risk behaviour online

Portuguese Safer Internet Centre

Making the internet safer remains a strategic objective in Portugal. According to the EU Kids Online 2020 report, approximately 1 in 4 children or young people say they have had an "uncomfortable" experience online (18 per cent for boys; 27 per cent for girls). Equally, more than half of children say they have difficulties in verifying which information online is true (53 per cent).

Online love and sexuality in times of COVID-19

Dutch Safer Internet Centre

On the occasion of Safer Internet Day (SID) in the Netherlands, the Dutch Safer Internet Centre (SIC) published a survey on online well-being in the COVID-19 period, with a special focus on online love and sexuality.