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Keeping children safe online

© Petterik Wiggers / Panos - Children at Rema Primary School in Ethiopia using their new 100 dollar laptops. Ethiopia is one of the first African countries to be part of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project, which seeks "to create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning."


The second edition of Research Watch, our portal dedicated to new global thinking on critical areas of child well-being, is focussed on the impact of the virtual world on the lives of children, and what governments and industry can do to combat the risks children face.

In this edition we bring you a studio debate with Senior Adviser to the United Nations, John Carr; Chief Executive at the UK's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, Deputy Chief Constable Peter Davies; and Director of Research and Strategies at Egypt's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Nevine Tewfik.

Joining them in the Commentary section are Sonia Livingstone, Head of the Department of Media and Communications at London School of Economics and Political Science, and Shaheen Shariff, Ph.D.Associate Professor at McGill University, who will discuss EU Kids Online and cyberbullying, respectively.

The Look Out For section showcases SaferNet Brazil's findings from ongoing research on how offenders in Brazil use the internet to spread child sexual abuse material.