CGI.br releases survey showing that 82% of young people use the Internet via mobile phone

In this new scenario, UNICEF launches an initiative to encourage safe internet use among teenagers with support from Google and the NGO Safernet.

The Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br) today released the results of the annual survey conducted by the Regional Center for Studies on the Development of the Information Society (Cetic.br), an entity that is part of the Brazilian Network Information Center (NIC.br), on internet use by children and adolescents.

A total of 2,105 children and adolescent Internet users aged between 9 and 17 were interviewed across the entire country. The survey addressed issues related to the profile of these users, the frequency of Internet use, the equipment used, the access location, and the main online activities they engage in.

The survey, called TIC Kids Online Brazil, is based on the methodology of the European network EU Kids Online, led by the London School of Economics.

In response to this new scenario, the action "Internet Sem Vacilo" was created to encourage positive behavior among adolescents and young people in the use of the global computer network. The initiative is from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in partnership with Google and the non-governmental organization Safernet. The campaign features participation from popular YouTubers Pyong Lee and Jout Jout, who are well-known among young audiences.

During the event, held at YouTube Space, located in the Instituto Criar, a debate took place between teenagers and YouTubers on the campaign themes: cyberbullying (humiliation, offense, and threats via the Internet) and sexting (exchange of intimate messages and images); privacy, friendship, and online relationships; safe searching, and prejudice and intolerance online.

The launch of the UNICEF initiative is part of the celebrations for the 25th anniversary of the Statute of the Child and Adolescent.

Profile of respondents from the TIC Kids Online Brazil survey

● 81% access the Internet every day or almost every day;
● 82% use a mobile phone to access the network (in 2013 it was 53%);
● 56% use a desktop computer/PC to access the network (in 2013 it was 71%);
● 68% used the Internet for school work in the month preceding the survey;
● 79% have their own profile on social networks.

To access the full tables of results from TIC Kids Online Brazil 2014, visit https://cetic.br/survey/kids-online/indicators

More about the UNICEF campaign at www.internetsemvacilo.org.br

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