Welcome to make-IT-safe

make-IT-safe is a global campaign to make IT safe for children and young people everywhere.

Our goal is to get the IT industry and governments to take responsibility for making online and interactive technologies safe for children and young people.

The make-IT-safe campaign unites children’s groups in 67 countries led by ECPAT International and the Children’s Charities Coalition for Internet Safety.

Support make-IT-safe – sign our online petition and lobby IT companies, government and media.

What does make-IT-safe want?

We are lobbying IT leaders to create a global child protection body to set and implement global industry standards, research safety technologies and fund a global educational campaign.

We also call on governments to adopt IT child protection policies to ensure industry responsibility, to enable international legal co-operation against online child abuse, and to provide care and protection for children abused or exposed to harmful images and messages online.

Why do we need to make-IT-safe?

Children and young people are leading users of the internet, chat rooms, web cams, peer2peer, mobile phones and electronic games - at home, at school, at internet cafés, everywhere.

These technologies bring great benefits, and great risks – risks of sexual exploitation and child pornography, and exposure to sexual predators as well as to damaging images or messages.

Some IT companies and governments are working to protect children and young people online. But it’s not enough. The proof is there every day in our courts, the news and in thousands upon thousands of injured children. That must change.

Parents, educators and children’s groups all have their part to play. But only the IT industry and governments can deliver the technological, legal and financial resources needed to ensure the safety of children and young people online and in interactive technologies. The make-IT-safe campaign is dedicated to ensuring they do so.