This document provides an overview of digital citizenship and safety issues in Ukraine. It summarizes the country's population and demographics, characteristics of its internet network UAnet, levels of digital access and popular online activities. The document also examines behavioral trends, common online risks Ukrainian youth face, and recommendations to improve safety. Key points include high mobile internet penetration, popularity of social media like Facebook, and risks like exposure to adult content, contacting strangers, and sharing private information online.

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Table of Contents
■ General Characteristics of Ukraine
■ General Characteristics of the UAnet
■ Digital Access and Activities
■ Behavioral Online Trends
■ Safety Risks
■ Recommendations
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3. General Characteristics of Ukraine

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Overview
POPULATION
45 million
CAPITAL:
city of Kyiv
LANGUAGE:
Ukrainian official language,
Russian widely spoken
STATIONARY INTERNET
PENETRATION
23%
MOBILE INTERNET PENETRATION
119%
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Total Population by Oblast and by Rural-Urban Breakdown
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10-24 years in population
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7. UANet

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Environment
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Top 10 Domains In Ukraine
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10. DIGITAL ACCESS AND ACTIVITIES

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Digital Access
Internet access for young people over 14
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Percent of urban children age 6-17 using various Internet connection devices by region
panel = 550 people
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Frequency of urban Children (by percentage) using home stationary computer for Internet by age range
Panel = 430 people
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Knowledge and Usage of Social Networking Websites
Most popular web-sites among surveyed children 10-17 years old are social networking sites (SNS): 56%
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Facebook in Ukraine
Total Facebook Users
1 450 700
Penetration of population
3.19%
Facebook use by gender
Females – 51%
males – 49%
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User Generated Content: Blogosphere
■ 80% of Ukrainian blogs are found on three blog hosting
sites, livejournal.com, blog.mail.ru, and liveinternet.ru
■ 15% of blogs are on Ukrainian blog hosting sites:
■ Dnevnik.Bigmir.net,
■ blog.i.ua,
■ blog.meta.ua,
■ biox.ua.
■ 420,000 person blogs (in Ukraine 2009)
■ 20,000 communities
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Micro-Blogging: Twitter
■ 35,500 Ukrainian twitter users
■ 15% of users post daily
■ 59% of users are in Kyiv,
■ 9% in Kharkiv,
■ 7% in Odesa,
■ 6% in Lviv,
■ 3% in Donesk and Dnipropetrovsk.
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18. Behavioral Online Trends

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Increasing Internet Usage
Ukrainian Internet
users access the
Internet:
age 14 and older
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Top Risks on the Internet According to Children aged 10-17:
Malicious Software and Fraud: Exposure of Adult Content (in the past month):
39% Viruses
Received link to pornographic content:
Exposure of Adult Content: 2% of mobile internet users
21% Adult Content 7% of stationary internet users
14% clicked the link
Exposure of Violent Content:
Watched such content:
Ended up on a pornographic site:
2% of mobile internet users
13% of stationary internet users
3% of mobile internet users
19% of stationary internet users
22% stayed/engaged
Currently visit such sites:
2% of mobile internet users
11% of stationary internet users
9% engaged
% of internet user in the panel (age 10-17)
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Meeting Strangers: When to meet a online stranger offline ?
% of internet user in the panel (age 10-17)
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Urban Children who are internet users, aged 6-17 who faced risk online:
Offered to take part in a 6% of mobile internet users
lottery/sweepstakes or provide
26% of stationary internet users
7% agreed
information to win something
1% of mobile internet users
Asked to be in a film
7% of stationary internet
5% agreed
users
1% of mobile internet users
Offered Drugs
7% of stationary internet
11% agreed
users
SURVEY: The percent is out of 550 youth ages 6-17
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Children who faced risk online
Asked detailed information, address, parent occupation, vacation
times:
■1% of mobile internet users
■8% of stationary internet users
■17% agreed/shared
Asked for personal photos:
■2% of mobile internet users
■14% of stationary internet users
■28% agreed/shared
Shared personal Information on SNS:
■46%personal mobile phone number
■36 %home address shared
■51% personal photos
SURVEY: The percent is out of 550 youth ages 6-17
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Recommendations
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