Innovation and transformation are vital to securing a safer future – both on and off line – therefore, digital innovation and technological transformation is where we most need to focus our energy and investment.

Verizon is one of the world’s largest companies and one of the leading examples when it comes to incorporating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and into the company’s core strategies and sustainability planning.

With one eye on the current trends and one eye on the future, we shaped this year’s Brighthood conference around the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 16.2, which aims to end all forms of abuse, exploitation and violence against children.

Online Safety Technology, or Safety Tech for short, is in its infancy, but is showing huge potential for growth and development.

One of the main drivers behind the development of NetClean ProTective is to limit revictimisation of exploited children. But, what do we mean when we talk about revictimisation?

Often, child sexual abuse survivors will say that the dissemination of images and films online affects them differently than the hands on abuse did, and this is because the material can live on forever on the internet, it never goes away – unless we do something about it.

As mobile phones are increasingly being used to produce, consume, share and store child sexual abuse material, it has become increasingly important to do what we can to disrupt this trend. Employers who provide their work force with mobile phones are one of the stakeholders in this effort.

Many businesses have policies and action plans in place to stop employees from consuming child sexual abuse material. This however must be followed up by effective policy compliance.

Today is the fastest day of technological evolution for the rest of your life; today is also the slowest day of technological evolution for the rest of your life. This provides us with incredible possibilities.
Will we expand the life of every human on the planet and eradicate diseases that have plagued mankind? Can we ensure modern education for every child on the planet, lift the remaining 10% of the planet out of poverty, and reverse the implications of climate change? While we cannot predict the future, we can say that technology will play a significant role in these efforts.

Today, more than ever, we must take stock of leadership models and how existing and developing leaders respond to crises, such as climate change and the future of our children online.