Collaborating to support kids online
Our team actively contributes to advisory boards and other global initiatives, ensuring that research, clinical insights, and lived experiences help shape policies, products, and protections that support young people in today’s connected world. Our participation includes working alongside industry leaders, policymakers, and child safety advocates to build a safer, more thoughtful digital ecosystem.
Led by the EDSAFE AI Alliance, the Safe AI Companions Task Force is a cross-sector team of educators, policymakers, researchers, industry experts, youth, and civil rights advocates convened to evaluate how AI companion and relational tools can be developed to support students’ wellbeing, safety, and privacy in the context of the education sector. The Task Force focuses on the intersection of schools, educators, and the development of AI literacy programming as AI companions or relational tools become more ubiquitous in students’ lives.
The Fitbit Youth Advisory panel provides research-based insights and suggestions to support design of activity tracking and smart watch technology that is healthy and safe for young people.
The Google Kids Expert Advisory Group informs Google policies and practices related to products and features for kids, teens, and families, to support young people’s safety and wellbeing.
The iRaise Coalition is a multi-actor global initiative launched by Everyone.AI and the Paris Peace Forum to safeguard and empower children in the age of Artificial Intelligence.
Meta’s Youth Safety Advisors, composed of a diverse, global group of experts in youth mental health and digital wellness, provides research-based information to support a focus on young people’s health, safety, and privacy in the development of features and policies.
The Online Child Exploitation Prevention Initiative (OCEPI) by the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Program, consists of individuals and agencies specializing in efforts to prevent children from becoming victims of online sexual exploitation and abuse. Initiative members convene with an ongoing goal of working collaboratively to achieve a consistent and effective global prevention message.
Open AI’s Expert Council on Well-Being and AI brings together leading researchers and experts with decades of experience studying how technology affects our emotions, motivation, and mental health. Their role is to advise, pose questions, and help define what healthy interactions with AI should look like for all ages.
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Protection through Online Participation (PoP), created by the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence Against Children and International Telecommunication Union, is an intersectoral and collaborative initiative aimed at better understanding how children and young people use digital platforms to be safer. This initiative has started to map child protection services online, with examples drawn from 118 countries.
As part of their commitment to digital civility, Roblox’s Trust and Safety Advisory Board is composed of world-renowned digital safety authorities who convene to discuss Roblox’ progress on their Digital Civility Initiative.
Snap’s Safety Advisory Board convenes regularly to share evidence-based feedback on safety-related policies, product features, and other related initiatives to support a healthier online experience for teens and young adults.
The Mental Health Coalition is embarking on a multi-year journey to transform youth mental health in the digital space via the Safe Online Standards for Kids’ Mental Health (S.O.S.) initiative by developing credible, data-driven standards for kids’ mental health on technology platforms.
Stanford University’s Center for Adolescent Health has invited Subject Matter Experts for Digital Media and Youth as part of the Adolescent Health and Well-being Project (AHWP)—which aims to research, strengthen, and effectively disseminate policy guidance that enhances adolescent health services, ultimately improving the health and well-being of young people across the United States.
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