- More than 1 billion children globally have been affected by school closures.
- Online learning has filled a lot of the gaps, meaning screen time has increased for many children.
- Around 60% of 8- to 12-year-olds are exposed to cyber risk, including cyberbullying, according to the Child Online Safety Index.
- Founder of DQ Institute Yuhyun Park explains how to help your child stay safe online – and how we need to teach the world about digital citizenship.
This summer, Yuhyun Park’s 13-year-old son will be getting his first smartphone.
It’s not a decision the mother-of-two took lightly, but he earned his right to have the device by passing a digital citizenship test, with a score of 115 in eight core digital skills.
Park is very familiar with the test – because she created it.
A trained statistician and World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, Park pioneered the term “digital intelligence” or DQ. She runs the DQ Institute, which measures child online safety around the world through the Child Online Safety Index.
“It started from a very personal thing,” she says. “I wanted my children to…
