Platform Impact Assessment Tool

Platform Impact Assessment Tool – Online Safety for Children
Introductory Question
Welcome to the MS Platform Assessment Tool.

Kindly note that on this platform, we define children as anyone under the age of 18 years in accordance with Article 1 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This is unless the age of majority may be attained earlier under the national laws of respective countries.

Is your platform primarily created for children users?*

Do children use your platform?*

Does your platform provide the capacity for children and adult to interact?*

Indicator 1: Access & Learning

Is learning content on your platform easily accessible/catalogued?*

Is information provided according to age or age groups on your platform?*

Is information targeted according to children of different age ranges?*

Does your platform have a policy that grants children and their caregivers access to creative opportunities, critical awareness, and opportunities for reflection on their behavior?*

Do you have an evidence-based age limit to accessing certain types of content on your platform (for instance, if children are limited from viewing certain “inappropriate content”, does this apply to all children or a specific age group and is it evidence-based?)*

Are there efforts to make your product/platform attractive for high-quality child friendly content such as educational content?*

Indicator 2: Data Privacy

Do you have measures implemented to prevent all users from accessing child sexual abuse material?*

Do you have an accessible, confidential, age-appropriate reporting and complaint mechanism in place? (examples could be zero-rated chat lines or call lines)*

Is your platform’s default privacy setting appropriate to the age of users including to children users?*

Once a user is identified as a child or young person, do you heighten privacy/data protection measures in collection, processing, storage, sale and publishing of their personal data.*

Does your platform have ways to review hosted images and videos?*

If yes, do you delete inappropriate ones when found.

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