One in three of the approximately 5 billion people who use the internet and the digital environment worldwide is a child. According to Article 17 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, all young people have a right to participate in media from a variety of sources and to be protected in their use of them.

Safer Internet Day has been held at the beginning of February every year since 2005.

This year's European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG) will take place in Vilnius (Lithuania) from 17 to 19 June.

The 18th Internet Governance Forum (IGF) took place in Kyoto (Japan) in October 2023. Under the motto "The Internet we want - empowering all people", over 9,000 representatives from politics, business, academia and civil society discussed how to further shape the Internet and digital applications.

This is a summary of the 18th conference of the IGF (Internet Governance Forum) in 2023.

The legislative process on the European Commission's draft on preventing and combating child sexual abuse is still ongoing.

Suggestions and proposals for the theme of this year's Internet Governance Forum (IGF) can still be submitted until 31 January.

On 8 November, the Broadcasting Commission of the federal states published its draft for a reform of the Interstate Treaty on the Protection of Minors in Broadcasting and in Telemedia and opened it up for discussion.

On Thursday Nov. 23rd the EC held the Safer Internet Forum 2023 in Brussels with about 150 people taking part onsite, and nearly the same number of attendants populating the digital space. The program circled around challenges arising from digital services and new technologies and strategies for enabling young people and children to cope.

This year's COSPRA Summit of the Ndukwe Kalu Foundation took place on 23 November in Abuja, Nigeria.