2018-IS-IA-0027

The Action aims at continuing to support a Safer Internet Centre (SIC) in Iceland providing:

1. An Awareness Centre for informing children, their parents and teachers about better and safer use of the internet, building on enhanced digital resource centres (repositories), from which specific awareness toolkits and services are adapted and deployed;

2. Online helpline services for reporting and dealing with harmful contact (grooming), conduct (cyberbullying) and content by one-to-one conversations, online and by phone, with trained counsellors to give advice and support to children, parents and other concerned target groups.

3. A hotline for receiving and managing reports and data on online illegal child sexual abuse, hate speech and discrimination, that maintains partnerships with police and law enforcement, hosters and ISP’s.

The three components of the SIC will cooperate by setting up a single Advisory Board with national stakeholders including relevant industry partners. The SIC will also engage with children and young people through a dedicated Youth Platform.

The beneficiaries will further develop their role of providing generic services and will closely coordinate their activities with the core service platform and with the Insafe and INHOPE networks.