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.