5. Resourcing Child Online Protection Initiatives
Child online protection initiatives require resources: people (champions) and funding. In most cases, resources to support initiatives come from the government, international organisations, and the civil society.
🌍 Case study
Africa Online Safety Fund
In partnership with South African social impact advisory firm Impact Amplifier and Institute of Strategic Dialogue, in recognition of the Safer Internet Day, Google announced a US$1M pan-African fund to support innovative ideas around privacy, trust, and safety for families online across sub-Saharan Africa, in 2020.
The Africa Online Safety Fund aimed to support transformative and catalytic solutions that address identity theft, bullying and harassment, sex trafficking, hate crimes, terrorist recruitment and promotion, misinformation and disinformation, and financial scams, particularly for women and children in Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, Senegal, Ethiopia, and Côte d’Ivoire.
Winners of the fund included 8 organisations awarded US$100,000 for transformative solutions, and 18 winners of US$10,000 offering catalytic projects.