In our current era, children are increasingly interacting with digital screens and the Internet for various purposes, including education and entertainment. This growing and advanced use of the Internet and smart devices has resulted in many cyber challenges that young people may face, and they find it very difficult to deal with them, which requires those who deal with them (family/school/sports and social centers/ .....) Understanding the principles and foundations of digital child safety.
The National Digital Safety Initiative is concerned with developing awareness content and educational materials about digital safety for young people, empowering children with the best international practices in this field, and introducing parents, teachers, and all those dealing with them to mechanisms for enhancing digital safety for children at home and in the school and social community.
The content also aims to raise awareness among families and the community surrounding the youth about the importance of ensuring the digital safety of the child during his dealings with the digital space and smart devices and the cyber challenges imposed on him in them. The digital safety risks guide provides general guidelines on how to achieve digital safety for the child in the virtual world surrounded by many cyber challenges and dangers. Electronic gaming applications also present basic principles for enhancing the digital safety of the child, such as: protecting personal data, Rejecting cyberbullying and reporting abuse or incidents of cyber blackmail, in attractive entertainment formats.
The awareness content reviews some important topics related to children's digital safety, including: the dangers of social isolation of children in the virtual world, the foundations of cyber protection for all family members, the negative psychological, social and health effects of cyberbullying, the foundations of using the Internet, and how to act in the event of any abuse or potential danger; in a way that enhances the safe use of websites, social media applications and smart devices by young people to ensure their digital safety.
