Introducing Nominees for the Family-Friendly Digital Services Festival Award Marks a Milestone in Child Protection

The opening of the Family-Friendly Digital Services Festival was conceived with an objective in mind: to assess digital platforms utilizing cutting-edge technologies to safeguard the privacy of children and adolescents, a vision emphasized by the Minister of Communications and Information Technology.

During the ceremony and unveiling the nominees for the coveted Family-Friendly Digital Services Festival award, Dr. Mohammad Khansari, the Deputy Minister of Communications, underscored the importance of online child safety. He emphasized the critical necessity for families to leverage technological tools to shield children in the virtual realm.

Protecting children involves a series of preventive and proactive measures to create suitable conditions for their useful, healthy, and prosperous use of the online space, as well as safeguarding them against potential harms in that environment.

The document on safeguarding children and adolescents in the online space, approved by the Supreme Council of Cyberspace, entrusts the Ministry of ICT with creating technological tools to protect children in the cyber space, such as infrastructure development, basic services, identity verification, regulation setting, parental monitoring capabilities, and other related aspects. Therefore, the first Family-Friendly Digital Services Festival was organized with the goal of consolidating services in this field on widely-used domestic platforms and fostering an innovative ecosystem by the Women and Family Affairs Department of the Ministry of Communications and the Information Technology Organization of Iran.