This document summarizes Armenia's efforts to promote internet safety for children from 2009 to 2015. It discusses definitions of unsafe online content and behaviors. It also outlines Armenia's strategies which included creating an Armenian Safer Internet Committee in 2010, launching an awareness platform called Safe.AM, developing educational online content for children, and organizing internet safety workshops in schools that reached over 15,000 children by 2012. The document notes Armenia's participation in international internet governance meetings and over 120 schools joining a European internet safety program by 2015.

1. ARMSec 2015
Safer Internet Armenia
Narine Khachatryan
05 December 2015

3. Definitions
• adult content and engagement of minors in online
communication about such content
• promotion of violence, incitement to racism, hate
speech, xenophobia, cyber-bullying
• abuse of personal data and online privacy
• grooming
• child sexual abuse and exploitation

4. To cooperate not compete for a better
Internet for kids
• Child specific online content and services
• Awareness and empowerment
• Digital / media literacy in education
• Tools and self-regulation for online safe
environment
• Legislation and law enforcement against child
sexual abuse and exploitation
(European Strategy to Make the Internet a Better Place for Children)

12. • 2009 Internet safety awareness raising campaigns
launched in Armenian schools. Safer Internet Day
celebrated
• 2010 - Armenian Safer Internet Committee created
engaging public and private sectors stakeholders
• 2010 - Safe.AM platform launched. A variety of tools in
Armenian language produced - Council of Europe Internet
Literacy Handbook, INSAFE's eSafety Kit, etc
• Awareness raising campaigns, simultaneous lessons
organized

15. • 2011 – Child-specific and educational e-content
developed, internet and media literacy lessons
organized
• 2012 – Over 15 000 children took part in Safer
Internet workshops, covering 70 per cent of
Armenia’s schools - over 15 000 children through
open lessons across 800 schools (in February, March)
• 2012 - By the end of February Safe.AM became the
first most visited Armenian web site in Education &
Science category

16. • 2013 - 2014 7 delegates, including 2 school
children took part in ICANN meetings (Beijing,
Singapore, London).
• 2015 – over 120 Armenian schools joined
European eSafety label Program
• 2015 - Safe.AM - ArmNet Awards 2015 nominee
in the category of 'Social Impact’ among 140
participants

17. Thank you!
info@safe.am