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Item Child Online Safety Intervention Through Empowering Parents and Technical Experts: Indian Context(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2020) Andrews, D.; Alathur, S.; Chetty, N.Child online safety is a state of being protected from online problematic content and environment. Purpose of this study is to examine the stakeholders’ empowered status influence on child online safety. Using questionnaires survey responses on relational aspects of stakeholder empowerment and child online safety is collected from parents and technical experts who were working with the Internet safety. The responses are analyzed with the help of SPSS software and the results are examined for influencing factors of child online safety. Restricting resources, blocking at different levels and parental control are the different influencing factors of child online safety. As the parental control influencing factor exists with both the models of parents and technical experts initiated, it plays an important role in attaining child online safety. The influencing factors which are observed from the study can be emphasized to control child online threats and provide online safety. © 2020, IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.Item International efforts for children online safety: A survey(Inderscience Publishers, 2020) Andrews, D.; Alathur, S.; Chetty, N.Children online safety is a global issue and attaining international attention to address it. Often, children are vulnerable to online threats. Aim of this paper is to review children online safety issues and identify existing international efforts for reducing online risks. In this regard, efforts from available international bodies for providing online safety to children are reviewed and reported. To overcome online risks, understanding the behaviour of online ecosystem and coping after facing risks are most important. The ecosystem involves different stakeholders such as service providers, physical network, online users being connected, social media sites and tools and technology. Elimination of online risks is difficult but the intensity of risks can be reduced. © © 2020 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.