Towards a safe digital childhood – Taghreed Ibrahim Al -Tasan
Taghreed Ibrahim Al -Tasan
In its last session, the Saudi Council of Ministers valued the adoption of the Human Rights Council unanimously to the decision made by the Kingdom to protect children in the digital space, stressing that this step embodies the Kingdom’s ambitious vision in protecting childhood globally.
When the Human Rights Council announced its unanimous dependence on the decision submitted by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to protect children in the digital space, this was not just a transient diplomatic victory, but rather a new assertion that the Kingdom – led by His Highness Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman – has ranked time to establish global standards that transmit humanity to safer, aware and fair prospects.
The decision, which came from the global initiative “Protection of the Child in the Cyber Space” launched by His Highness the Crown Prince, reflects the deep Saudi vision towards the future: a vision that considers man is the essence of development, and the child is the first seed that the societies are narrated with strength and prosperity.
Digital space is no longer a luxury or margin in the lives of children, but rather a major corner of their education, their entertainment, their social relationships, and even the formation of their personalities and intellectual and psychological identities. Therefore, the responsibility for protecting them is no longer an option, but a global moral and legal duty.
The international decision comes to confirm the Kingdom’s presence as a voice of reason, wisdom and balance in the most urgent issues of the era. When Saudi Arabia submits such a decision, it does not protect its children alone, but rather is presented to the whole world a road map to build a moral, safe, and fair space space.
This step is added to the Kingdom’s bright record of humanitarian and development initiatives, starting with food and environmental security projects, through sustainable development and the confrontation of poverty, to its founding of a new era of digital space security.
The digital danger has remained latent in small details: open games applications, unprotected educational platforms, social media without control, and the content that goes beyond childhood to worlds that are not tolerated by the mind of a child or his soul.
Perhaps when he launched this initiative, His Highness launched this initiative to look forward to the size of the challenge that would face humanity if it did not establish strict protection and legislation systems, protecting this category of digital violations in all its forms, from bullying, extortion and deception, to commercial, sexual and cognitive exploitation.
The decision of the Human Rights Council was unanimously, a council whose members rarely bring together without reservations or divisions, to reveal the size of international confidence in the Saudi vision. It embodies that when the Kingdom talks about reform, development and human being, it does this with real tools, realistic projects, and international partnerships that only know the language of achievement and application.
The protection of the digital child is not a purely technical issue, but an educational, moral, psychological, and legal issue as well. It is a protection for the future of humanity from educational, cognitive and moral damage that may produce deformed generations and values if they are left alone in this open space.
Here, the greatness of the Crown Prince’s vision, which links digital transformation with moral development, is evident, and confirms that any development that does not protect a person is an incomplete development.
Saudi society today, as it celebrates this achievement, demands that these steps be accompanied by internal policies at the level of the family, the school and religious and cultural institutions, to raise the digital child in an awareness manner consciously. We have to realize that the UN decision is a legal protection umbrella, but the moral and educational ceiling starts from our homes. The father who leaves his child without guidance in smart devices, and the mother who gives him the tablet to silence his screaming, both of which participate in one way or another in the risks he is exposed to. Here comes the role of society in translating these decisions into daily awareness and high -end behaviors in digital education.
Today, the Kingdom has presented a new lesson in the global moral leadership, when it linked its national goals to all humanity interests.
This decision not only protects children, but also establishes a world more mercy, fair and fair. A world starts from a small screen in the hands of a small child, but it opens a large window towards values and principles that make bright tomorrow, God willing.
