The ‘Kids and Internet’ project designed and developed by Iran Information Technology Organization (ITO) has received a prize at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum 2018.
This project was pitted against 400 projects and topics in the seventh annual WSIS Prizes contest – a global initiative recognizing innovative projects using information and communication technologies (ICTs) to better the world – and managed to win the prize in Child Online Protection (COP) section.
Each year, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) assess different countries’ activities in related fields and awards prizes to top projects competing in the 10 sections of the contest at the WSIS Forum, according to a report by the Public Relations Department of the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology.
The award ceremony of the WSIS Prizes 2018 was held in Geneva on March 20, 2018, at the WSIS Forum 2018.
COP is an initiative established by ITU in November 2008 within the framework of the Global Cybersecurity Agenda. The initiative was supported by the United Nations Secretary-General, states and several international organizations.
In the seventh annual WSIS Prizes contest, Iran presented a report of its performance, activities and measures to improve different aspects with regard to ensuring online self-protection for children and families.
Among the sections included in this report were the holding of more than 700 educational workshops at schools across the country attended by parents, children and young adults, solutions and methods to protect children, young adults and families against the dangers and threats posed by the cyberspace as well as Iran’s plan in this regard for the future.
Children, students, parents and teachers form the target group addressed by this project. Among the project’s goals are identifying the threats and effective challenges pertaining to the field of children and internet, providing solutions as well as legal-protection and security-protection services in the field of children and internet, educating different members of the target group and designing and launching the Kids and Internet National System.