On November 18, 2024, Data for Ethic organized a webinar titled ‘Understanding and Preventing Cyberviolence in Schools’ uniting experts, educators, and associations. This event highlighted the critical challenges of cyberviolence while exploring innovative solutions to protect young people in today’s digital landscape.
The purpose of this webinar
- Encourage collective awareness: alert parents, teachers, and institutions about the serious, often overlooked effects of cyberbullying on young people’s mental health and overall well-being.
- Promote effective preventive measures: Demonstrate how AI-powered solutions such as Netethic can both identify and prevent cyberviolence while offering instant support to victims.
- Promote adaptive digital education: Emphasize the importance of bridging the cultural gap between parents and children in technology usage to create a safer and more responsible digital environment.
- Develop a sustainable collective strategy: Establish a framework where all stakeholders (schools, families, businesses) collaborate to protect young people from online threats.
Ultimately, this webinar aimed to drive meaningful and lasting change in educational and parental practices, leveraging technology to prevent and protect future generations.
The key points covered during the webinar
These are the key topics covered by the speakers:
- Cyberviolence in Schools: An Underestimated threat: Experts characterize cyberviolence as an omnipresent, often invisible threat that affects a significant number of students. Its psychological toll—ranging from anxiety to self-doubt and depression—calls for prompt and personalized action.
- Online sexual harassment: An Underreported Reality: This specific form of cyberviolence, still under-documented in school environments, was a key focus of discussion. The speakers emphasized the urgent need to collect more data to better understand its scope and develop effective preventive measures.
- The role of parents: between risk-unawareness and the cultural gap: Another major topic focused on parents’ lack of awareness regarding online dangers. The speakers highlighted a cultural gap, as many parents struggle to grasp how their children use modern technologies, making effective supervision challenging, leaving young people vulnerable to cyberthreats.
A call to collective action
This event reaffirms Data for Ethic’s commitment to combating cyberbullying, through an approach that combines technological innovation with personalized human support.
