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!Partner

!Partner Projects

|Safer Internet Day

• With support from Internet Matters, EE trained thousands of frontline staff at over 600 retail outlets to offer safety support on devices.{{Cite web |date=2018-02-06 |title=Safer Internet Day: How to Take Control of Your Child's Digital Safety |url=https://community.ee.co.uk/t5/Community-Blog/Safer-Internet-Day-How-to-Take-Control-of-Your-Child-s-Digital/ba-p/668124 |access-date=2022-09-27 |website=EE Community |language=en}}

Parental controls

• Internet Matters hosts parental control guides for BT broadband as well as the EE mobile network and PlusNet's SafeGuard.{{Cite web |title=Broadband & Mobile Network Parental Controls |url=https://www.internetmatters.org/parental-controls/broadband-mobile/ |access-date=2022-09-27 |website=Internet Matters |language=en-US}}

PhoneSmart Licence

• EE worked with Internet Matters to create the PhoneSmart Licence designed for children about to get their first smartphone. It helps children learn key safety skills before they start using their device.{{Cite web |title=Get your PhoneSmart License |url=https://eephonesmart.co.uk/ |access-date=2022-10-04 |website=About The PhoneSmart Licence and EE |language=en}}

|Hosting resources

• Sky hosted Internet Matters' resources at a 3-day onsite Code Camp for those working at Sky and NowTV.{{Cite web |title=Sky - Internet Matters Founding Member |url=https://www.internetmatters.org/about-us/our-partners/sky-internet-matters-founding-member/ |access-date=2022-09-27 |website=Internet Matters |language=en-US}}

|Sharing resources

• TalkTalk included online safety advice in welcome booklets for new customers, which outlines features such as parental controls.

Digital Heroes

• Internet Matters helped create an award for projects that focused on empowering and safeguarding young people online.{{Cite web |title=TalkTalk - Internet Matters Founding Member |url=https://www.internetmatters.org/about-us/our-partners/talktalk-internet-matters-founding-member/ |access-date=2022-09-27 |website=Internet Matters |language=en-US}}

|Social promotion

• Throughout the year, Virgin Media regularly promotes Internet Matters campaigns and controls on social media.{{Cite web |title=Virgin Media - Internet Matters Founding Member |url=https://www.internetmatters.org/about-us/our-partners/virgin-media-internet-matters-founding-member/ |access-date=2022-09-27 |website=Internet Matters |language=en-US}}

|BBC Own It

• Launched in 2018, BBC Own It provided advice to children aged 8–12. As of 2022, it has switched focus to providing advice for parents of these children.
• It launched the BBC Own It app to help children make good choices. This has been discontinued.{{Cite web |title=The BBC Own It app is being retired |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/ownit/about-us/app-retired |access-date=2022-09-27 |website=www.bbc.co.uk |language=en}}
• Internet Matters have provided written content to provide parents on the Own It website.{{Cite web |title=4 tips to help your child cope with cyberbullying |url=https://www.bbc.com/ownit/its-personal/help-your-child-with-cyberbullying |access-date=2022-09-27 |website=www.bbc.com |language=en}}

|Research

• Huawei sponsored Internet Matters' Living for the Future research about technology and the family home. It looked at challenges and opportunities presented by new technologies and how that intensified during the COVID-19 lockdowns.{{Cite web |title=Research report - Living the future: The technological family and the connected home |url=https://www.internetmatters.org/about-us/research-report-living-the-future-the-technological-family-and-the-connected-home/ |access-date=2022-09-27 |website=Internet Matters |language=en-US}}

|Connecting Safely Online

• In 2020, alongside Youthworks and with help from Meta (then Facebook), Internet Matters launched Connecting Safely Online. This hub was designed to support young people with SEND and their parents to help keep them from 'falling through the net' on social media.{{Cite web |date=2020-07-08 |title=Connecting Safely Online - A new online safety hub for vulnerable families |url=https://www.internetmatters.org/hub/news-blogs/connecting-safely-online-a-new-online-safety-hub-to-empower-young-people-with-send/ |access-date=2022-09-27 |website=Internet Matters |language=en-US}}

|Staff training

• Samsung joined other partners for Safer Internet Day in 2019 to provide training and information to its in-store staff to share online safety information with consumers.

Online safety workshops

• Internet Matters worked with Samsung to help them deliver free online safety workshops for parents and carers to keep children safe online across Samsung devices.{{Cite web |title=Samsung - Internet Matters Corporate Partner |url=https://www.internetmatters.org/about-us/our-partners/samsung-internet-matters-corporate-partner/ |access-date=2022-09-27 |website=Internet Matters |language=en-US}}

The Online Together Project

• With Samsung, Internet Matters launched The Online Together Project in 2021,{{Cite web |title=Creating respectful relationships online: The Online Together Project- in Partnership with Internet Matters {{!}} Samsung United Kingdom |url=https://www.samsung.com/uk/explore/kings-cross/discover/lifestyle/internet-matters/4/ |access-date=2022-09-27 |website=Samsung uk |language=en-GB}} a series of quizzes designed to challenge stereotypes and prejudice online.{{Cite web |title=The Online Together Project created by Samsung and Internet Matters |url=https://www.internetmatters.org/the-online-together-project/ |access-date=2022-09-27 |website=Internet Matters |language=en-US}} It launched with a gender stereotypes quiz with more quizzes slated to be added in the long-term.

|Digital Matters

• ESET funded the creation of online safety learning platform, Digital Matters in 2022.{{Cite web |title=About Us |url=https://www.internetmatters.org/digital-matters/about-us/ |access-date=2022-09-27 |website=Digital Matters |language=en-US}} The platform is designed for teachers to use in the classroom, specifically in PSHE lessons around online safety. It is currently for students in Key Stage 2.

|Research

• In 2022, TikTok supported Intentional Use: How agency supports young people's wellbeing in a digital world completed by Internet Matters. The research explored the role of agency in young people's wellbeing.{{Cite web |title=How agency supports young people's digital wellbeing |url=https://www.internetmatters.org/resources/intentional-use-report/ |access-date=2022-09-27 |website=Internet Matters |language=en-US}}

TikTok Playbook

• In October 2022, Internet Matters launched the TikTok Playbook. They worked with TikTok to create a comprehensive guide to TikTok for teachers.{{Cite web |title=The TikTok Playbook for Teachers |url=https://www.internetmatters.org/tiktok-playbook/ |access-date=2022-09-27 |website=Internet Matters |language=en-US}}

|Online gaming advice hub

• Along with other online safety hubs, Internet Matters created their online gaming hub to offer advice to parents on video games.{{Cite news |title=Gaming Advice Hub - Internet Matters |language=en-US |work=Internet Matters |url=https://www.internetmatters.org/resources/online-gaming-advice/ |access-date=2022-09-28}}

|Play Together/Play Smart

• Internet Matters and EA worked together to campaign for parents to get involved in their child's video games by playing together. The campaign featured English television and radio personality and former professional footballer, Ian Wright.{{Cite web |title=Advice to help kids game safely and responsibly {{!}} Electronic Arts & IM |url=https://www.internetmatters.org/about-us/our-partners/electronic-arts-internet-matters-corporate-partner/play-together-play-smart/ |access-date=2022-09-28 |website=Internet Matters |language=en-US}}
• As part of the campaign, research was carried out on how children and their parents interact with video games.{{Cite web |title=Gaming research infographic Play Together / Play Smart |url=https://www.internetmatters.org/resources/play-together-play-smart-gaming-research-infographic/ |access-date=2022-09-28 |website=Internet Matters |language=en-US}}
• For the 2021 festive season, Internet Matters and Electronic Arts worked with comedian Katherine Ryan to encourage parents to set up parental controls on video games consoles before gifting them to their child.{{Cite web |date=2021-11-23 |title=EA encourages parental controls this festive season |url=https://www.internetmatters.org/hub/news-blogs/why-we-are-encouraging-the-set-up-of-parental-controls-this-festive-season/ |access-date=2022-09-28 |website=Internet Matters |language=en-US}}

Research

• Electronic Arts and Internet Matters worked together to research the impact of the above campaigns, producing a report that showed an increase in parent engagement: "Independent research shows that 55% of parents who saw the campaign acted by switching on parental controls – a truly meaningful and significant change in behaviour. Meanwhile, a staggering 81% of parents are now more likely to talk to their children about being safe online when using their games console, while 75% of parents and carers are more likely to set up parental controls on their child’s games console before giving the console to them in future."{{Cite web |date=2022-02-03 |title=EA encourages more parents to set up parental controls |url=https://www.internetmatters.org/hub/news-blogs/play-together-play-smart-campaign-encourages-more-parents-set-up-parental-controls/ |access-date=2022-09-28 |website=Internet Matters |language=en-US}}