According to the United Nations, and an article published in May 2020, with 1.5 billion children currently out of school, there is a “desperate need for digital partnership such as the one ITU (International Telecommunications Union) is currently undertaking with Children’s Fund UNICEF, known as the GIGA initiative, to ensure that schooling everywhere can be provided through online platforms”. However, “online child protection guidelines” need to be accelerated. At Escudo Web we firmly believe in child protection and have built in elements into all our solutions that seek to involve parents in setting appropriate limits to Internet access and where a browser is used on a device, that content accessed is appropriate.
