ITU established a
partnership with the African Child Online Protection Education and Awareness
Centre (ACOPEA) to run a pilot exercise to train 100 safety ambassadors from
government, law enforcement and educators from 25 schools across Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia. Spot messages promoting online safety for children and young people
were developed under the banner ‘’Click Safe, Click Clever’’. It is estimated
that at the end of the pilot exercise in January 2014, 15,000 children would have
seen the safety messages. Following several discussions with different
stakeholders and the interest from several African administrations to enhance and
invest in their educational and training activities, ITU, Facebook and ACOPEA
are now planning to start an African E-Safety Project.