Children and young people are exposed to considerable security risks in online worlds. The SIKID compass shows options for action to interlink actors and measures in the protection of minors in the media, based on the results of the project “Security for Children in the Digital World” (SIKID).
The project examined the risks of communication and interaction to which children and young people are exposed in online worlds, including cyberbullying, hate speech, cybergrooming and violations of sexual boundaries.
A central finding of the project is that these risks represent structurally new phenomena of endangerment that the existing legal framework has only recently begun to address. The protection and empowerment of children and young people requires the collaboration of various actors, combining preventive, enabling and repressive approaches. Despite initial links between actors, a sustainable, systematic network is still lacking – a gap that the SIKID compass responds to.
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The compass is freely accessible in a long version and a short version. Both versions of “Handlungsoptionen zur Erhöhung der Sicherheit von Kindern im digitalen Raum” [Options for Increasing the Security for Children in the Digital Space] are only available in German.
The SIKID project has been running since September 2021 and will end on December 31, 2024. It is a joint project of the University of Tübingen, the TU Berlin and the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut. The project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.