Five takeaways from the Safety Tech workshop at Leeds Digital Festival 2021
Network hosted a sector-focused session in partnership with Crisp and the Department for Digital, Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) at Leeds Digital Festival 2021.
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Championing the Safety Tech sector: one amazing year
“When we set up the Safety Tech Innovation Network a year ago, we hoped we’d find an audience. We weren’t quite prepared for what happened next.” Ryan Jackson looks back on an amazing year for Safety Tech.
Protecting your platform and users from child sexual abuse material: Where to start
An introduction to practical ways in which online businesses can use tech to guard their platforms from child sexual abuse material.
Government launches Safety Tech Challenge Fund to tackle online child abuse in end-to-end encrypted services
The Safety Tech Challenge Fund will bring together global experts with funding of up to £85,000 each, to demonstrate how end-to-end encryption can be implemented without opening the door to greater levels of child sexual abuse.
Expert groups to boost UK safety tech skills and capability
Three new cross-sector expert groups have been established to lead the UK safety tech sector’s response to the challenges identified in recent DCMS skills and capabilities research.
Safety Tech 2021: Insights from the world’s first safety tech expo
In March 2021, the safety tech industry convened for the world’s first expo dedicated to the sector and discussed how the industry can achieve its mission of creating a safer internet for all.
Minister hails ‘stellar growth’ of safety tech sector
A new report from DCMS, The UK Safety Tech Sector: 2021 Analysis identifies the safety tech sector as one of the fastest growing parts of the UK’s tech industry, with a 40% increase in revenues in the past year, reaching £314 million.
German safety tech industry gains momentum
Through legislation, awareness raising by media and NGOs, and a great working relationship with the UK, the German safety tech sector has established itself as a key player in the global rise of safety tech.
Safety Tech 2021 Expo: keeping connected
Thank you for joining the world’s first safety tech expo, Safety Tech 2021: Unleashing the Potential for a Safer Internet. Listed within this article is information to help you stay connected with the community, so that you can work towards delivering safer online experiences for users.
Behind the scenes of the world’s first safety tech expo
In the lead-up to Safety Tech 2021: Unleashing the Potential for a Safer Internet, the organisers discuss their plans and visions for the expo.
Consequence Scanning: How to build responsibility into product development
Sam Brown of Consequential discussed the agile business practice, Consequence Scanning, as an innovative tool that provides opportunities within product development to mitigate or address potential harms and disasters before they happen.
Online Safety Data Initiative: Establishing our priorities
Earlier this month, DCMS launched the Online Safety Data Initiative – a 15 month project designed to test methodologies to facilitate better access to higher quality data to support the development of technology to identify and remove harmful and illegal content from the internet.
What are the emerging trends for safety tech?
As digital consumption continues to boom, safety tech considerations are fast becoming vital and central components of innovation in technology. But what could the future look like?
Building better online communities: Resilience in 2021 and beyond
Expert panellists shed light on the online community management sector and discussed how to create a peer support network and provide access to the tools needed in the field, at our latest event.
New industry consortium launches to transform access to online harms data
DCMS has awarded a consortium of suppliers, led by Faculty, PUBLIC and the Online Safety Tech Industry Association (OSTIA), to deliver the Online Safety Data Initiative. This initiative will work to improve the accuracy of online safety technologies by removing existing barriers around the sharing of online harms data and improving the quality of data accessed.
Privacy, data and legal issues: challenges the BBC faced in developing its Own It app
The BBC’s Jon Howard discussed the research and development that went into creating their app to help children navigate the online world.
Safety tech – how do we design for audience needs?
Our expert panel debate how we might deliver safer user experiences through better understanding the end-to-end experience of vulnerable user groups.
DCMS Digital Secretary hails UK safety tech sector as online harms regulation is confirmed
Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden visits the offices of UK safety tech company SafeToNet to publicise new measures.
Diversity, inclusion and fairness in safety tech: expert panel provides key insights
Turing Institute, FutureGov and SafeToNet inspire attendees and provide practical advice in the first themed event held by the Safety Tech Innovation Network.
Safety Tech at the UN
An international panel of experts put safety tech firmly on the agenda at the UN Internet Governance Forum on 5 November 2020, in an Open Forum dedicated to exploring the international potential of this exciting new tech sector.
DCMS Online Harms Data Transformation £2.4m tender launches with two engagement events
Lightning talks and a bid clarification event were held on 10/11 November.
About the Safety Tech Innovation Network
The Safety Tech Innovation Network is the national innovation network dedicated to the promotion, collaboration and the industrial application of online safety technologies in the UK.
Safety Tech Unconference 2020: what we learned, what’s next
On 22 September 2020, we held what was perhaps the first ever event dedicated to people working in or around safety tech – the Safety Tech Unconference. In this blog we wanted to share key threads that ran through our conversations, and next steps.
Stronger communities and increased engagement: how your business could benefit from investing in safety tech
Users are increasingly being turned off by online toxicity. This brings costs to business, as well as to society. In this article we look at the return on investment in online safety, and how enabling safer online communities could boost business revenues by up to 30%.
