ChildSafeNet, Jawalakhel, Lalitpur (2026)

25/06/2026

बालबालिकालाई अनलाइनमा सुरक्षित राख्न चाइल्डसेफनेटले नगरपालिकाहरूसँग सहकार्य गरिरहेको छ।

यसै अन्तर्गत, हामीले २०८३ असार ४ र ५ गते बुढानीलकण्ठ नगरपालिकासँग सहकार्य गर्दै बुढानीलकण्ठमा कक्षा ६ देखि १० सम्मका विद्यार्थीहरूका लागि दुईवटा डिजिटल सुरक्षा तालिम सञ्चालन गर्यौँ।

तालिममा बु.न.पा.का ७ वटा सामुदायिक विद्यालयका ११५ जना विद्यार्थीहरू तालिममा सहभागी भएका थिए ।

ती अन्तर्क्रियात्मक र सहभागितामूलक तालिम सत्रहरू निम्न विषयहरूमा केन्द्रित थिए:

• इन्टरनेट र AI का अवसरहरूलाई गोपनीयता र सुरक्षाकासाथै सन्तुलनमा राख्ने

• इन्टरनेट तथा गेमिङ लत, अनलाइन ठगी, साइबरबुलिङ, सेक्स्टिङ र यौनजन्य ब्ल्याकमेलजस्ता अनलाइन जोखिमहरू पहिचान गर्ने

• डिजिटल जोखिम सामना गर्दा रिपोर्टिङ संयन्त्र प्रयोग गर्न र सहयोग खोज्न बालबालिकाको आत्मविश्वास अभिवृद्धि गर्ने

• स्वस्थ डिजिटल बानी विकास गर्ने र अनलाइनमा अरूप्रति संवेदनशील हुने

हाजिरीजवाफ, वादविवाद, छलफल र भिडियो प्रदर्शनमार्फत विद्यार्थीहरूले तालिम सत्रहरूमा सक्रिय सहभागिता जनाए।

उनीहरूले इन्टरनेट प्रयोगका आफ्ना अनुभवहरू पनि सुनाए । साथै, उनीहरुले आफ्ना चासोहरू व्यक्त गरे र डिजिटल स्थानहरूलाई अझ सुरक्षित र उत्पादक बनाउन के कस्ता भूमिका खेल्न सकिन्छ भन्नेबारे विचार गरे।

प्रत्येक बालबालिकालाई सुरक्षित रूपमा इन्टरनेट प्रयोग गर्ने र अनलाइनमा समेत सुरक्षित हुने अधिकार छ। सरकार, प्रविधि कम्पनीहरू, स्कूलहरु, अभिभावक र नागरिक समाज संस्थाहरूको बालबालिकालाई अफलाइनका साथै अनलाइनमा पनि सुरक्षित राख्ने जिम्मेवारी छ।

यसका लागि स्थानीय सरकारका पहलहरूले अनलाइनमा बालबालिकाका वरिपरि अझ बलियो सुरक्षा घेरा निर्माण गर्न सघाउँदछ र परिवर्तन स्थानीय तहबाटै सुरु हुन्छ।

तालिमलाई प्रभावकारी बनाउन सहयोग गर्ने बुढानीलकण्ठ नगरपालिका, सहभागी स्कूलहरु, विद्यार्थीहरू र चाइल्डसेफनेट टोलीप्रति हाम्रो हार्दिक धन्यवाद।

स्कूल, संस्था, समुदाय र टोलछिमेकमा डिजिटल सुरक्षा तालिम तथा सचेतना सत्र सञ्चालनका लागि हामीलाई सम्पर्क गर्नुहोस्:

[email protected]

25/06/2026

AI-generated spam is no longer just a content problem. It is an emerging child online safety concern.

Recent Google research, highlighted by Search Engine Journal, shows that traditional content-level moderation is no longer enough.

Generative AI can now produce large volumes of harmful or misleading content, each slightly different but serving the same purpose. This makes it harder for platforms to detect abuse by reviewing individual posts, videos or accounts in isolation.

Google’s research points to a more systemic approach: detecting clusters of accounts, repeated narrative patterns, automated behaviour and infrastructure-level signals. In simple terms, platforms need to look beyond a single harmful post and identify the networks and systems behind it.

This has serious implications for children.

Children are not only exposed to random harmful content. They may also be targeted by coordinated scams, misinformation, grooming tactics, sexual exploitation risks, deepfake abuse, blackmail, harmful challenges and manipulative content designed for scale and engagement.

If AI can generate harm at scale, safety systems must also operate at scale.

Technology companies must build safety into platform design through stronger detection, faster response, child-friendly reporting and real accountability.

Governments, schools, parents and child protection systems must also recognise that AI-generated content can be used to manipulate and harm children.

Children need digital literacy, but they should not carry the burden of protection alone.

Tech companies must act before children are harmed. Governments must regulate before risks become normalised. Schools must educate before children face harm alone. Families must talk before silence becomes vulnerability.

AI is scaling content. We must scale protection.

Read the full article: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-generated-ai-detected/579987/

24/06/2026

Children’s social media use is not the problem. Poorly designed digital systems are.

A recent paper, “Children Are Not the Enemy: Child-Fit Security as an Alternative to Bans and Surveillance”, offers an important challenge to how we think about child online safety.

Too often, when digital systems fail to protect children, the response is to restrict children, monitor them or remove them from online spaces. Age bans, surveillance tools, screen-time limits and parental controls may have a role in some contexts, but they cannot be the foundation of child protection in the digital age.

Children are already part of digital society. They learn, play, communicate, create, seek help, build friendships and form identities online. Protecting them should not mean treating them as risks to be managed, vulnerabilities to be patched or users to be excluded.

The paper proposes a powerful alternative: child-fit security.

This means designing digital systems that recognise children as legitimate users, with evolving capacities, rights, vulnerabilities and agency. Their safety, privacy, wellbeing, development, participation and dignity should be treated as core security requirements, not as afterthoughts.

This is a crucial shift.

A truly child-fit system does not simply ask, “How do we keep children out?”

It asks:

How do we make this space safer for children?

How do we protect their privacy without turning protection into surveillance?

How do we support their participation without exposing them to manipulation, exploitation or harm?

How do we design systems that grow with the child?

How do we ensure children’s voices shape the systems meant to protect them?

This matters for countries like Nepal and many others where children are rapidly going online, but safety systems, laws, school education, parental guidance and platform accountability remain weak.

The burden of protection must not be pushed on to children and families alone. Parents and educators need support, but they should not be expected to compensate for unsafe platform design.

Technology companies must design for children from the start.

Governments must regulate with children’s rights, safety and participation in mind.

Schools must teach digital safety as part of life skills. Child protection systems must be ready to respond to online harms.

We do not make playgrounds safer by banning children from playing. We make playgrounds safer by designing them with soft landings, visibility, appropriate risk and room to grow.

The same principle should apply online.

Children should not be blamed and restricted. Systems should be made safer and appropriate for them.

Read the Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.17957

23/06/2026

How our minds are controlled

23/06/2026

बालबालिकालाई अनलाइनमा सुरक्षित राख्न चाइल्डसेफनेटले नगरपालिकाहरूसँग सहकार्य गरिरहेको छ।

यसै अन्तर्गत, हामीले २०८३ असार ४ र ५ गते बुढानीलकण्ठ नगरपालिकासँग सहकार्य गर्दै बुढानीलकण्ठमा कक्षा ६ देखि १० सम्मका विद्यार्थीहरूका लागि दुईवटा डिजिटल सुरक्षा तालिम सञ्चालन गर्यौँ।

तालिममा बु.न.पा.का ७ वटा सामुदायिक विद्यालयका ११५ जना विद्यार्थीहरू तालिममा सहभागी भएका थिए ।

ती अन्तर्क्रियात्मक र सहभागितामूलक तालिम सत्रहरू निम्न विषयहरूमा केन्द्रित थिए:

• इन्टरनेट र AI का अवसरहरूलाई गोपनीयता र सुरक्षाकासाथै सन्तुलनमा राख्ने

• इन्टरनेट तथा गेमिङ लत, अनलाइन ठगी, साइबरबुलिङ, सेक्स्टिङ र यौनजन्य ब्ल्याकमेलजस्ता अनलाइन जोखिमहरू पहिचान गर्ने

• डिजिटल जोखिम सामना गर्दा रिपोर्टिङ संयन्त्र प्रयोग गर्न र सहयोग खोज्न बालबालिकाको आत्मविश्वास अभिवृद्धि गर्ने

• स्वस्थ डिजिटल बानी विकास गर्ने र अनलाइनमा अरूप्रति संवेदनशील हुने

हाजिरीजवाफ, वादविवाद, छलफल र भिडियो प्रदर्शनमार्फत विद्यार्थीहरूले तालिम सत्रहरूमा सक्रिय सहभागिता जनाए।

उनीहरूले इन्टरनेट प्रयोगका आफ्ना अनुभवहरू पनि सुनाए । साथै, उनीहरुले आफ्ना चासोहरू व्यक्त गरे र डिजिटल स्थानहरूलाई अझ सुरक्षित र उत्पादक बनाउन के कस्ता भूमिका खेल्न सकिन्छ भन्नेबारे विचार गरे।

प्रत्येक बालबालिकालाई सुरक्षित रूपमा इन्टरनेट प्रयोग गर्ने र अनलाइनमा समेत सुरक्षित हुने अधिकार छ। सरकार, प्रविधि कम्पनीहरू, स्कूलहरु, अभिभावक र नागरिक समाज संस्थाहरूको बालबालिकालाई अफलाइनका साथै अनलाइनमा पनि सुरक्षित राख्ने जिम्मेवारी छ।

यसका लागि स्थानीय सरकारका पहलहरूले अनलाइनमा बालबालिकाका वरिपरि अझ बलियो सुरक्षा घेरा निर्माण गर्न सघाउँदछ र परिवर्तन स्थानीय तहबाटै सुरु हुन्छ।

तालिमलाई प्रभावकारी बनाउन सहयोग गर्ने बुढानीलकण्ठ नगरपालिका, सहभागी स्कूलहरु, विद्यार्थीहरू र चाइल्डसेफनेट टोलीप्रति हाम्रो हार्दिक धन्यवाद।

स्कूल, संस्था, समुदाय र टोलछिमेकमा डिजिटल सुरक्षा तालिम तथा सचेतना सत्र सञ्चालनका लागि हामीलाई सम्पर्क गर्नुहोस्:

[email protected]

23/06/2026

Children are growing up in a world where friendships, learning, creativity and play increasingly happen online. But the digital world is not separate from real life. Words can hurt. Images can travel far. Private information can be misused. A single post, comment or forward can affect someone’s dignity, safety and wellbeing.

That is why online etiquette is not just about “good manners”. It is about empathy, responsibility and protection.

Here are seven simple but important reminders for children:

1. Be Kind and Respectful:

Treat others online as you would in person. Avoid words that shame, insult, exclude or humiliate.

2. Think Before Posting:

Before sharing a photo, video, comment or joke, pause and ask: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it safe? Could it hurt someone?

3. Respect Privacy:

Personal information, passwords, locations, family details and private conversations should not be shared carelessly.

4. Ask Before Sharing Others’ content:

A photo, video, message or story about another person belongs to them too. Always ask for permission before posting or forwarding it.

5. Use Polite Language:

Online communication can easily be misunderstood. Encourage children to choose words that show patience, care and respect.

6. Do Not Forward Harmful Content:

Bullying messages, rumours, private images, violent content and harmful jokes should stop with us, not spread through us.

7. Report and Seek Help:

Children should know that they do not have to handle online problems alone. If something feels unsafe, upsetting or confusing, they should talk to a trusted adult and use reporting tools.

Digital safety begins with everyday choices. Every child should learn not only how to use technology, but how to use it with kindness, courage and care.

Let’s help children become thoughtful digital citizens. Talk to a child today about one of these tips. Share this message with parents, teachers and caregivers, and start a conversation about making the internet safer, kinder and more respectful for every child.

22/06/2026

ChildSafeNet has been working closely with municipalities to make digital spaces safer for children and young people.

As part of this effort, ChildSafeNet conducted two digital safety training sessions in Budhanilkantha Municipality on 18 and 19 June 2026 for students from Grades 6 to 10.

The training sessions were organised by Budhanilkantha Municipality in collaboration with ChildSafeNet.

A total of 115 students from seven public schools in Budhanilkantha Municipality participated in the training.

The interactive sessions focused on:

• Balancing the opportunities of the internet and AI with privacy and safety

• Recognising online risks such as gaming addiction, online fraud, cyberbullying, sexting and sexual extortion

• Building children’s confidence to use reporting mechanisms and seek help when they face digital threats

• Developing healthy digital habits and being sensitive to others online

Through quizzes, debates, discussions and video screenings, the students actively participated in the sessions.

They also shared their experiences of using the internet, raised concerns and reflected on how they can make their digital spaces safer and more productive.

Children have the right to use the internet safely and to be protected from online harm. Governments, technology companies, schools, parents and civil society organisations have a responsibility to keep children safe offline as well as online.

This requires safer platforms, informed parents, prepared schools, accountable systems and proactive local governments.

Local government initiatives like this are exactly what Nepal needs to build a stronger protective ring around children online. True systemic change starts at the local level.

Our sincere thanks to Budhanilkantha Municipality, the participating schools, the students and the ChildSafeNet team for making these sessions meaningful.

Let’s keep working together to ensure every child can learn, play, connect and grow safely online.

For digital safety training and awareness sessions in schools, organisations, communities and neighbourhoods, please contact us:

[email protected]

22/06/2026

This image holds up a mirror to many parents.

We often hear calls to “protect children from social media”. But how often do we ask what children see when they look at us?

Adults worry about children spending too much time online, while many of us are constantly looking down at our own screens. We ask children to disconnect, but we may not always be present ourselves. We talk about digital discipline, but do we model it?

Protecting children online is not as simple as keeping them away from technology. Digital spaces are now part of how children learn, play, connect and express themselves. The real question is not whether children should be online, but whether the online world is safe, age-appropriate and accountable to them.

At ChildSafeNet, we believe online safety begins with shared responsibility.

Parents and caregivers need to guide with trust, not fear.

Schools need to teach digital literacy and empathy.

Governments need to strengthen child-centred policies and protections.

Technology companies need to design platforms that put children’s safety, privacy and wellbeing first.

And all adults need to reflect on their own digital behaviour.

Children do not need slogans. They need safer platforms, honest conversations, clear boundaries and adults who are present, informed and responsible.

Protecting children online starts not by pointing a finger at them, but by asking ourselves:

Are we modelling the digital world we want children to grow up in?

22/06/2026

ChildSafeNet, a Nepal-based organisation, has pledged USD 100,000 to help build a safer internet for children and young people in Cambodia.

The pledge was made under the International Telecommunication Union’s Partner2Connect programme.

In Cambodia, 8.2 million children and young people face real online risks: cyberbullying, sexual exploitation, phishing, and gaming addiction.

Strengthening online safety and digital literacy has become a national priority.

Our approach is comprehensive and evidence-based: research to understand emerging digital risks, advocacy for stronger laws and policies, capacity building for service providers and professionals, and awareness-raising for families, schools, and communities.

ChildSafeNet will provide this support through technical assistance for research, capacity building, awareness raising and advocacy to promote digital safety among children and young people in Cambodia.

But we are not doing it alone. Through targeted roundtables, ChildSafeNet brings together government agencies, telecom operators, internet service providers, technology companies, media, parents, and civil society to foster collaboration and drive action.

The goal? A Cambodia where every child can explore, learn, and connect online in a safe, supportive, and empowering environment.

Learn about our work: www.childsafenet.org

ChildSafeNet welcomes partnerships from organisations in Cambodia; please reach out to [email protected]

Read More about the Pledge: https://www.itu.int/partner2connect/flash-edition-12/

(Scroll down to “Pledge Highlights: Access for All)

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