The following are the outputs of the captioning taken during an IGF intervention. Although it is largely accurate, in some cases it may be incomplete or inaccurate due to inaudible passages or transcription errors. It is posted as an aid, but should not be treated as an authoritative record.
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>> RADHIKA GUPTA: Good afternoon, everyone. I have to welcome you to this very important discussion: Promoting Children's Rights and Inclusion in the Digital Age.
Today, are addressing one of the most crucial challenges. We want to ensure that children who are the most vulnerable members of our society are protected, empowered, and I include it in the ever. Evolving digital landscape. The journey towards online ‑‑ child online protection has been one of the progressive one and very awakening. A child online detection was online which were inspired by the global cybersecurity agenda.
This was followed up by the We Protect Alliance which provided a critical framework in the form of helping member states to tackle online traits against children. This is in 2025; the document is often sited in developing countries. That child online safety is an emerging issue. It's offered us a global standard for child online protection as a universal and aging obligation, however as we reflect on the last two decades of digital transformation culminating into the next year's WSIS+ 20, we must acknowledge that child online safety is now more critical than ever.
At the beginning of the digital age, the issue was not as pronounced as it is now. Today, however, the risks are real, persistent, and demanding. We need innovation and accountability. These must be implemented with intentionality and commitment thereof. They require a paradigm shift towards safety by design, privacy by design, child rights by design. Those form the fundamentals. These can also sit in isolation. The complicity of the digital landscape demands robust, multistakeholder approach bringing together the government, tech companies, Civil Society, the community, or the society at large and the children as main stakeholders to the discussion table.
At the same time, we must resist attendance. Children require unique protection, delayed strategies, and recognition of the vulnerabilities and rights. To help us unpack the conversation this afternoon, we have five aspects for the panel discussion. I'll give them the floor to introduce themselves a minute each. We have some online. It is a hybrid format we are using. We have Gabriel and Garima.
>> AHITHA: Thank you. I'm Ahitha. We are trying to empower India. There's been a lot of interactions with young individuals across the world in different cultures and economies. I hope to present that perspective today in our discussion. Thank you.
>> GARIMA SINGH: I'm a part of IGF. That was simply established. We're working and also working to establish ‑‑
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>> GARIMA SINGH: The environment. Especially for the kids as well. And the thing is since we are just an island, our component in the awareness section is quite high. We are looking forward for this.
>> RADHIKA GUPTA: Thank you.
>> SPEAKER: Good afternoon, everybody. This is Dr. ‑‑
Department of public administration from the University.
>> RADHIKA GUPTA: Okay. Gabriel?
>> GABRIEL KARSAN: I'm Gabriel Karsan. I'm the African coordinator for the international governance as well as the foundling director of the emerging initiative. My work is set in policy, society, as well as the role of young people and children in shaping that institution and looking forward to the discussion.
>> SAMAILA ATSEN BAKO: Thank you so much. I'm Samaila Bako. It is an African wide non‑profit and the director of communication for Nigeria. Most of my work revolves around user awareness, medication and training. I'm looking forward to learning from everyone here in the session.
>> RADHIKA GUPTA: Thank you to my wonderful panelist. Because you come from different background and all of that, we would like to understand what is actually happening in the country to make sure that children and young people are safe guided. What strategies do you have to online cyber bullying. Thank you.
It is not working? It is working? Okay.
>> GARIMA SINGH: Everything is still on the baby steps. We are deploying the cyber awareness and cyber space over there. Like I said before, it is clear. It is always a challenge for us. We're trying to formulate for our children. It is mostly a part of this. We are working on conducting the sessions in cyber safety and safety and security in the digital devices.
How to make sure the Internet and sort of empower. They are working on what is required to make sure and understand how they can identify if they've been targeted for cyber bullying. How they can identify if they are perpetrators? Local communities as well. As a community led organisation, we have been working with UNICEF and organisations to conduct awareness programmes and such stem‑related programmes.
Our kids can come up with critical thinking solutions through coding and simple programmes and stuff. Yeah. That's it.
>> RADHIKA GUPTA: Samaila, am I putting you on the spot?
>> SAMAILA ATSEN BAKO: I wasn't expecting to the next voice. It is fine. In our country, it is similar to what the previous speaker just said. We have foundationally it has been put in place. I'm about six months ago. You had the session. The national communications division. They are putting together basically for protection. They have the processes.
We are part of the session. We had a session that was organised by Meta, MTN, and I think it was a global organisation that does stuff around protection and stuff like that. We've had some of these engagements. It was the decision of Nigeria. We tend to be involved as professionals.
As Internet users or guardians, we do have kids that were using the Internet and things they experience. They also have the end user perspective. We try to share from the areas. We go a step further. We engage students and tend to go since 2015 or so going to high schools and engage with the students and also to engage with the teachers. We found the kids in the private school tend to get more access. When we go to the private schools, we try to be aware of. Internet is nice and fun. We've tried to engage with government. This will lead to contributions that we've known from the perspective. We continue to be here as well.
>> RADHIKA GUPTA: Okay. I don't see that to be little. That's some progress. Thank you. Gabriel? If we don't have Gabriel ready, can we have Jenna too?
>> SPEAKER: Hello everyone.
>> GABRIEL KARSAN: We have to be reminded. Hello?
>> RADHIKA GUPTA: Is that Gabriel speaking?
>> GABRIEL KARSAN: Yes. I was speaking.
>> RADHIKA GUPTA: Can you pause? Jenna has taken the floor. Wait for her to pause and then you can take it up. Thank you.
>> SPEAKER: Hello, everyone.
My topic is the future of learning in Bangladesh. Here I would like to express the entire challenges regarding the digitalisation. Globally, they are changing the learning experiences and approaches and institutional administration. Integrating the newest digital resources into the education institutions to establish a network involvement that enables students to learn in the digital format.
Therefore, digitalisation, in fact, facilitates the student's ability to protect the environment and the economy. The base is high‑quality education, learning outcomes, and content. They contribute the education and human capital development. Furthermore, the challenges due to the COVID‑19. Which break out in Bangladesh in March 1‑11‑2020.
Since then, the widespread closer of schools has hindered traditional software education and institutional activities. In the recent years, there's been widespread competition at the levels. With the creative solution to ensuring problems in education. The student teacher and strength. This is significant for Bangladesh. This is our previous government. Which was introduced in 2009. Bangladesh has started towards integration. They improve the learning results and access to education resource and transfer education delivery.
Now, I would like to know the digitisation of technology. In the year in the education system is digital transformative is taken into account. Digital education helps social media to modernise teaching and foster digital ‑‑
>> RADHIKA GUPTA: Jenna. I think we have to pause there for now. We're focusing on children and young people are not taken advantage of. What strategies do you have that's seen as exploitation and abuse and all other forms of abuse. Do you have an intervention on that? Can you go to that for us? Thank you.
>> SPEAKER: There must be sexual harassment. Through this it was developed in 2009. Each and every institution must have the intervention.
Through this, each and every education forms measurement with five to nine members. In the most of the case, the cyber bullies is done for the perspective on the female. They are always working on this to resolve the issue. This is the gender issue. We have lots of challenges like infrastructure. It is not so good here. If the government and there's lack of electricity. There's a great challenge for Bangladesh.
>> RADHIKA GUPTA: Thank you so much. Gabriel?
>> SPEAKER: Thank you so much for being with me.
>> RADHIKA GUPTA: Yes. Hang in there. We're coming back to you with two other submissions.
>> GABRIEL KARSAN: Yes. Thank you very much. Children in Africa are exposed to cyber bullies and harmful content. This is a global issue. We are not immune to the different vulnerables. It is shaping the culture as well as with social media.
In Tanzania, we are developing the framework. It really aligns with the sector. It is who has access to the Internet and in what particular perspective. It is still a developing country. The critical ‑‑ that has been merging with ‑‑ the educators and policymakers can just come together and exchange the particular real case scenario. We have the effect that has been great. The Internet is coming now. The access comes with information bridging the digital divide. Protecting the child is important. This is giving them the skill sets and languages.
When they can partake and communication and interact with the technological systems, they have awareness system. They are building feedback loops based on the discussion. I'll end there now.
>> RADHIKA GUPTA: Thank you. We'll come back to you later.
>> GARIMA SINGH: Hi, everyone.
We talked about child rights online. A lot of the young people talk about how there's exposure online. There's also unauthorized direction of the data. There's a lot of privacy violations. What is the mechanism? Is there enough so it is clearly explained and what is the data and how it is being used and what control do they have over it? They could be situations with the mindset. They look meaningly in the online space. You need the right amount. That's something they have highlighted.
From India, from the cyber harm perspective, there are two key things that I want to highlight the country is currently doing. Under the minister of current affairs is tracking cybercrime. They have a nationwide coordination which targets the accessible platform. This is something that you can look up in the cybercrime. Individuals can report cybercrimes. Further data can tell you how to handle crimes around child abuse and grooming and trafficking among others.
From the capacity‑building, they provide training to prosecutors. Among this, the cybercrime developments. The last thing I want to highlight is abuse, exploitation, and harassment. I want to highlight which mentions that it criminalised the use of children for creating, distributing, and accessing child sexual abuse. It includes various provisions.
>> RADHIKA GUPTA: All right. Thank you for your interventions. I don't know if I should go further.
For the sake of time, we're going to go further. I want to correct an impression. In terms of the terminology, we no longer have child pornography. Abuse is abuse. A child does not engage in pornography. Let's change it out. I just thought I would bring that to the floor. We go with the Nix round of submissions. I'm going to make the two questions.
If you give us what your country, for instance, what is India doing specifically to promote digital literacy among young people, then you tell us what's and maybe there's an intervention on emerging technologies. What are some of those things? You've given me two perspectives. Digital literacy to empower young people. When we are talking about child online safety, we have the provision and aspect. We need to make sure we're doing the right thing. We need to take care of empowerment and chill set in order for them to engage. I'm coming to you. I don't know who wants to take it first? Tell us what digital initiatives that you have in your county? What are some of the emerging technology leverages that you are doing in models? Thank you.
>> GARIMA SINGH: In terms of promoting the digital literacy, like every other country, we're struggling to understand at first and regional. I mentioned the organisation. It was establishing the digital literacy among our people and our country. We have focused. You can't go and directly reach out the kids. We have to pass it level by level.
How can you maintain safety and ensure the network that you are in connected and how can you ensure the devices are connected and you can ensure the security of the devices that you are giving out your child to use? We have programmes that we run across the country to educate our community and parents and students. The kids along with the teachers. It is not easy. The whole thing is new for the community.
When we go and say the digital spaces, you have this and this and that. It is harmful. To recognise is harmful. Not enough in the digital space. They have the individual space how they can identify they are being targeted and how they can monitor the devices that the kids are using. How they can ensure the safety. We run several programmes for the safety and in the programme itself.
>> RADHIKA GUPTA: Thank you. Gabriel, we are coming to you. I'm hearing the initiatives in the local language. Sometimes it is not always that the children understand. Do we have some of them in the local language? We can work with that.
Gabriel, over to you. We don't have Gabriel. Could we have Samaila?
>> SAMAILA ATSEN BAKO: Some of what the government is doing around digital literacy and emerging tech. I think a few years back there was some effort to do the level when it comes to the one that we have. I know there's been efforts, for instance, to provide part to the universities using the solar panels so they can then get the technologies that have been provided for the digital literacy. The current minister of communication has been pushing for a lot of effort. This has been nationally. I guess maybe it is a bit soon. The others by the national technology government agency and other governments came to an agreement. The goal was to slash the price. That's obviously leading to better Internet attrition. The telecom companies can lead the cables to more area and to people leaving outside of the urban centers. I think that's possible the efforts by the government generally speaking from the Civil Society. There's a number of organisations doing different kinds of digital safety. The goal is to make sure people understand more about technology. I think if we look at law enforcement now, it is a bit about crime or online fraud and cybercrime. We have cyber bullies. We are hoping for them to come on the board. I think in Nigeria right now, the main laws that maybe used have to do with cybercrime acts that we have as well as the child's rights for others. We are hoping that things are online.
>> RADHIKA GUPTA: Thank you. I put you on the spot. Gabriel, are you ready?
>> GABRIEL KARSAN: Yes. I'm ready. Thank you. Based on last night, Tanzania has been going through a big reform as far as the strategy in 2050. They have highlighted the importance of having core agency and empowerment in the digital structure empowerment programmes. Right now we have a programme that has fiberoptic. It is still under the side of things to pass on knowledge. We are not only helping the children interaction with the technologies; it is a big strategy that was pushed by the government. Also in terms of pushing public partnerships and Public and Private Partnerships now, we've been working with different organisations and examples like China where they are building a big platform for connectivity to come to the country. Also with a simple startup which is building an open source technology called Kai or S. This is in Swahili. It has all of the local initiatives, including access to literacy materials online and can be used on a simple feature. This has been a project that's been able to reach a million people. With the use of the local language and the community element and the funding mechanism that has subsidies from the government. It has boosted more inclusion. In terms of the Human Rights angle of equips such as privacy, we still have a dig technical gap. We are building the foundation of the framework. The emerging technologies will need us to really catapult fast. The big investment has to be made. The young children pushed for a change these are things. I got to enjoy the benefits of connection.
>> RADHIKA GUPTA: All right. I like the way you have the conversation. Do we have you?
>> GARIMA SINGH: I think a lot of very good points has been covered. It is time to take a note of what I could add in terms of the initiative that is are happening.
>> RADHIKA GUPTA: Okay. Some of the things we talked about are happening in India.
>> GARIMA SINGH: Yes.
>> RADHIKA GUPTA: We need you to retreat it. We are looking at country and what they are doing.
>> GARIMA SINGH: We spoke about the digital literacy programmes. When we look at India, there's been in the last couple ‑‑ for example, the Internet option has increased tremendously. And especially with right now we have the unify payment system and UPS what we call it. A lot of the transactions in the country are online. I don't mean talking and here I don't talk about the supermarkets, for example, or some kind of transactions with malls. I'm talking about the street talkers for that matter. Everybody does transactions through the unified. Everything is digital. And that brings us to the main concern about does everybody have the right set of concerns to ensure they are safe, secure, and meaningfully engaged in the Internet in the country? Just recently we have the national, digital literacy mission. This initiative was launched to ensure that the citizens, especially those in underserved area have skills to access the digital technology and participate overall in the digital economy. But since earlier in the first question that was addressed to me I spoke about threats. I want to highlight there's the programme for you to have the right set of skills. If you are interested, do that through the programme. One thing I want to highlight is not just having the skills and, you know, any ‑‑ in English. But what we at Youth IGF of India have done and in partnership for the chapter. The idea was to ensure that we teach relevant cybersecurity skill sets to young women in the northeast of India. In a language they are comfortable with and content that they are comfortable with to address their concerns of the region around cybersecurity. What I realise in the process of, you know, the partnership and among the other initiatives that we've been running as a Civil Society. There are a lot of Civil Society bodies out there not just focusing on mentoring the young. Also mentoring the educators and researchers as well as how do I say judicial and police in the country to handle the issues.
>> RADHIKA GUPTA: Thank you. Empowerment is to do the work. I know there's so many expertise in the room. We will pause the panel session now. Be thinking about one recommendation, one key recommendation to IGF as far as promoting child online safety and inclusion of rights is concerned. Be anything about that while we give the microphone to anyone that would like to make an intervention in this regard. Hello?
AUDIENCE: Hi. I also heard from India. Thank you for putting the points today. I wanted to mention that on the efforts by the government in terms of, like, India has ‑‑ the department has adopted a mission to train 5,000 commanders, cyber commanders as well. Where they are training these law enforcement agencies to look into the cyber in India. Which also looks into the child safety. That's an addition in terms of what the government is doing. In terms of population, that's what we feel as a Civil Society Organisation we do less. Coming from the organisation that does a lot of digital literacy programmes in India, we do train children about cyber safety from a young age. Basically from children below six up to as well to talk about, you know, how you need to navigate the digital spaces more safely and securely. Also the interaction with parents are really high. Because the whole digital generation digital divide is one big issue in India. Also the issue of shared devices. Putting all of those together, of course, the missions are way too high. A lot of civil society with a lot of effort and missions, we will be able to do that.
>> RADHIKA GUPTA: Thank you. I wish we had the whole day. We would have unpacked ‑‑
SPEAKER: I would like to add something.
>> RADHIKA GUPTA: Hold on. We have an open mic session. Just hold on. We are working to how they can safely use the Internet. We are very close to what you've done. Cyber bureau. They have a problem. If they have a problem, mentally link with the hospital. If they have an online cyber bullies, from one class to another how they can use the Internet. We are not working.
RAPPORTEUR: Thank you. In the country that I come from, it is part of the lessons for the ICT. From the scratch, they haven't content that they engage with. Yeah.
AUDIENCE: Hello I'm from Bangladesh. Our government has been created from the administrative committee for teenagers in locally the street level and as well as in the central level. It is cybersecurity related crime as well. In the district level, there are medical officers, educational officers, and as well as the society workers are there. They are actually working for cybercrime for teenagers. That could be an idea for everyone. They could do that locally to prevent cybercrime and cyber bullying. Perfect, I guess. It could be an idea.
>> RADHIKA GUPTA: Thank you for your intervention. Could you speak now?
Hello?
AUDIENCE: Thank you so much. It is the term for the local language. One initiative that's commandable is an AI integrated tool. They can access them in the more, you know, meaningful way. In addition to that, they are working on the Indian and AI mission. One of the key pillars is AI future skills. They are developing the modules. Finally one more point. I wanted to say there's a long time to go. We talk about child abuse and everything. They are actively working on that. There's a department within which is the electronics and issue of India. They are analysing how the public sector can understand what's happening to act better. Yeah.
AUDIENCE: Maybe I could just add an international perspective. I was a delegate in January. The primary issue discussed was, of course with all of the serious issues that your governments have been addressing. It is the mental health by two children. It evolves from false body images to several psychological problems. What do the governments do actually? Beyond teaching children how to be safe in the mental health perspective. That's a quick question.
>> RADHIKA GUPTA: That's a question. He's talking about what are the government doing? I think don't it is limited to the panelist. What governments are doing to safeguard people from body image issues?
AUDIENCE: Thank you. Can you hear me? I'm Mary. I'm from Nigeria. The panelist confirm in capacity building as well as online protection and focusing for the children. My position is we are interested in that. We do capacity building for teachers engaging them with their students. They have ambassadors within the school. You know, children they talked about that. They don't speak to the adults. Actually, they are terrified if their peers. We're trying to set up that. We can't make it happen. As for mental health, I'm not sure it meant what is looking at mental health. We want to look at that to include it in the engagement with the caregivers and teachers and parents. Also the health care organisations. We'll take that home. Thank you.
>> RADHIKA GUPTA: Thank you. Let me just reiterate the fact that country‑level strategies have been developed using the general recommendations, all of the things would have been taken care of. If we develop the country strategies without the global standard, it will be very difficult for us to take care of issues that will come up. You will not be future proof enough or design a solution after we'll have to review it. As much as possible, take the message home. They recommendation to design the solutions and strategies that will help children in the digital place. Are you available now?
There's a question online. Who is online? I can't see the question.
>> SAMAILA ATSEN BAKO: Sasha has a question.
>> RADHIKA GUPTA: Sasha, can you unmute yourself and ask the question?
>> AUDIENCE: Hello, can you hear me?
>> RADHIKA GUPTA: Yes. We can hear you.
>> AUDIENCE: You tried to put on the video as well. It is not working.
I'm Sasha Nandlal. I'm currently in Canada pursuing my PhD. My comment and question is based around the second point with digital literacy and inclusion from the perspective of empowering all students within the process of education and retaining their backgrounds as well as being mindful.
With that in mind, we have the digital transformation project through UNICEF as well. It's been part of the practice to look at the infrastructure and consider the policy and hardware and building teacher awareness. That's one of the major part that is we haven't touched on as much. Teachers attitudes play a role in terms of what morals, values, ethics, and practices are going to be reciprocated moving forward.
When you considered the normal and hidden curriculum, formal curriculum wise, we consider the systemic approach to it. When it comes to concepts from childhood to adulthood. Within the curriculum. We have to consider the domains of the students and teachers. How does that bridge of using technology and using and developing the digital literacy for education and the future work environment how important is that? And the interjection of AI within the equation. It is a very delicate space to be in.
When we consider accessibility design, in most cases, when it comes to the technology, it starts from the private sector. Most times private sectors don't consider the user of the element that they are creating. They think about the student after with the software has been developed.
Now, we have to go back and read the pieces through the technology. Having a strong relationship between coordinate and public sectors when it comes to education would be success. If we have more grants gathered into the space where we can bridge the gaps and the digital divide and have technology going from one space of private sector to government sector, we'll find that even the student who didn't have Internet at home could still have access to certain ways of learning.
Whether it is asynchronous, working from the device and plugging into the session when they come to school. It might be central for that particular field. I wondered from the speakers perspective and from their own personal experiences, how has the perspective of accessibility played into the role of education development when it comes to digital literacy and inclusion? Thank you.
>> RADHIKA GUPTA: Thank you. Do you want to take that?
>> GARIMA SINGH: That's give an example that something is used in India to connect with schools.
Especially during the COVID time, a lot of the high school science experiment is a project that I worked on. Where we work with the NGO and we also connected with a lot of ruler schools in India. They were able to perform the science experiments that was placed in the city sitting in the schools in the remote part of India. They had a dashboard and interface and realtime they were able to conduct the experiments remotely and there was ‑‑ you know, that in short even, of course, we wanted to ensure the seamless Internet. That's what enabled it.
But, this is one way to ensure the technology is used in the education sector to ensure that the education has come to this and the learning has come to this. Just wanted to show somebody else.
>> RADHIKA GUPTA: Okay. Even if nobody adds anything. The question presents the real picture of the complicity evolving during the child online protection. There's nowhere we can't have one stakeholder and have all of the solutions or have a system that's foolproof. It is important that we come together and we bring collective knowledge.
Like she said, sometimes businesses choose the profit over protection and their well‑being. However if we engage them at the early stage, we are going back to the basics and doing the right thing. We will not have to be there and be retrofitting. The industry will take into the standard tools and making sure whatever they put forward has the interest of the child at heart and they are doing the right thing. Which is why again country‑level strategies are very, very important.
If we have them, please call the industry player to book in order for them to do what they have to do. We need to take a country level designs very seriously and make sure we are designing them with the right frameworks in mind. I'll give the panelist the last opportunity. Each of you is giving a recommendation to IGF going forward as to how we can promote child safety and inclusion in IGF. Are you with us? Samaila?
Gabriel?
>> GABRIEL KARSAN: Thank you. That's an interesting question.
>> SAMAILA ATSEN BAKO: Can you hear me? Okay. I think there's a lag on the call. No problem. I'll still go ahead. I was just saying that's an interesting question. Because I was thinking more from the perspective of the human and societal facts for the committee played. We are going to start with the American condition. There are things that are human nature; right? There's no need to interrupt people. You can't stop things from going online. You are cured as well. What can you do? You know they are going to go online at some point. What can they do to helping part?
They have the experience and guidance to be more aware. I think the first thing is to observe the behavior changes. It becomes observed and ask questions to become more curious. Those things encourage more physical engagement with the peers as opposed to throwing just once. Peace of mind. Things like that.
Obviously, that means we should have screen thyme as well as take in to common this is set on some of the platforms. We shouldn't be allows kids that are not the right age. They are just exposing themselves to dangers they don't understand at the time. Now that being said, in terms of recommendations, again I can't speak from the government. I'll speak from the non‑profit perspective. One of my senior colleagues mentioned she's with India looking in to ambassadors. They have recently launched. We started with the university and talked about the universities as well and the idea is to help with our awareness and environments.
These are the digital harms and helpful in schools. But virtue, we have looked into the studies. As opposed to get in to cyber harms and cybercrime as well. I think you already gave a key recommendation for the government and for IGF to push governments which is the adoption of the world standard. We can talk about that. Thank you very much.
>> RADHIKA GUPTA: Thank you. Can you unmute Gabriel? He's ready to speak.
>> GABRIEL KARSAN: Thank you very much. I would add everyone in the multistakeholder approach in the times that we are living in. We say it takes a village to raise a child.
In the Internet age, it takes the globe. It is everybody, almost 5.3 billion people actively engaging and shaping the culture. Everybody in the multistakeholder approach and technologist and academia we should champion inclusive, child‑centered digital practices. This is the only way to create digital safer future. We have to understand that childhood is a phase.
When a child is born, there's a shift to interact to make sure the child is protected. This should be extended in our digital scope that these are the elements that should be highly put in how we decide policy. This is based on the inclusivity principles.
But also, in best practices, we need a lot of Public and Private Partnerships. This is the only way that we can reach the localised communities with the telecoms and with the academia. Also with the society participants in itself in a very driven approach. They are often the ones that raise our children. We should empower them as well. They have a strategy and more successful.
I think when we use regional integration, we can push for the countries to be more compliant in enforcing that a child is a property of all of Africa. It is our responsibility and moral obligation that we push for the spaces.
>> RADHIKA GUPTA: Thank you.
>> GARIMA SINGH: Before concluding, thank you for the opportunity to be on the panel decision from the things I'm taking on here. To give the key recommendation. I wrote it down. I won't forget it. I just won't mention everything.
For IGF in the context of the developing nation, I would like to ensure a safer place for our children and safety resources. Maybe one of the main component that we were discussing today that for the local content that's being used in the social platforms. Because that's one thing that all of our countries, I think, are facing.
Along with that, I would like to recommend also that bringing out this is strategies that would protect our children and strengthen digital literacy among the parents. Thank you.
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>> RADHIKA GUPTA: First of all. When we mention about the technology developments and focus on safety. There's one individual. There's participation from some kind of the prior consultation with school students. They make sure their concerns are part of the discussions.
>> RADHIKA GUPTA: All right. Thank you all. I don't know if I should have the last words. We have two minutes to get out of here.
Let me add my voice to what has been said by the panelist. Country‑level strategies are very important. They should be designed based on the right principles stated in number 25. There's also the need for mandatory and right for the digital platforms just to ensure that it is taken into consideration rights and privacy, and safety by designing for consideration capacity building. Digital literacy programme for children and parents.
There should be a global accountability which we take in to consideration more countries are doing. If they are not up to date, you can indirectly mention for countries that are nowhere to protect children. There's the need for inclusivity in policymaking. Maybe the last one I will say that maybe the next IGF we should be having the voice of children in the room. Not represented by youth or adults. That's my last.
On this note, thank you so much for enduring this. We are grateful. We hope that this discussion will be carried forward in the countries and spaces. We become ambassadors for child protection in the digital space in our very own development. Thank you. God bless you.
>> SAMAILA ATSEN BAKO: Thank you, everyone.
>> RADHIKA GUPTA: Bye bye. Do you feel like you've been forgotten? Thank you to our online speakers.