 Facebook in partnership with Wato to Watch Network hosted the Facebook for Saifa Internet Forum to demonstrate how the company and its family of apps are committed to online safety. The Facebook for Saifa Internet Forum brought together young people, safety experts, influencers and parents to discuss online child safety and explore ways to better understand the challenges and opportunities that children and young people face online. The forum follows this year's Saifa Internet Day that aimed to unite people globally to inspire and raise awareness on online safety for children and young people under the theme, Together for a Better Internet. Speaking at the forum, Facebook's head of public policy, Massin Degwa said that every day millions of people across Africa use Facebook and Instagram to share content with their communities. Now, for Facebook, when we look at the issue of safety, we are looking at certain key issues. One is we try to ensure that in line with our company mission which is to give people the power to build community and to build strong communities as well. The part for them to build communities and also for people to come closer together, we recognize that the platform allows for people to be able to express themselves and have a voice, but at the same time in having their voice, sometimes we have incidents where that may also result in safety concerns for others. And so the question every day is for us to balance voice and safety. Now, the way we ensure safety on Facebook, our other on the Facebook platforms is one to make sure that we have proper rules that tell you how to conduct yourself when you're online on our platforms. We call them the community standards. Now, our community standards are like the rule book of how to behave when you're online. It looks at issues around what constitutes, for example, a protected characteristic that should not be attacked. For example, when you're talking about hate speech, what are things that you should not say that could be regarded as hate speech when you're attacking, for example, a protected characteristic like gender, nationality, things like that, and then maybe pairing it up with a call to action to attack somebody, those kinds of things are addressed. At the same time, Watoto Wachinitwok, executive director, Linian Karyuki, see that with many young people using social media and being online daily at Watoto Wachinitwok, their focus is on using digital literacy education that focuses on encouraging the young people and their parents to emulate good online safety habits. I'm scared of the kids using social media, but there should be times that you... I would say that parents should not be scared of their kids using social media, but there should be times that you can actually interact with the kids, sit with them, let them show you exactly what they post on social media, have interactions to know exactly what is their everyday life. There are some things that they will be doing or there are some things that they will be sharing, they will not want you to actually see. But I think that they are very simple regulatory processes you can take. A typical example, if you Google Family Link, it's a simple program that can allow you to be able to watch what your children go to, the links they go to before they actually get to bad websites. But I was talking about sites that are very harmful to their mental being. And also they are very simple tools you can use for mobile antiviruses or laptop antiviruses like ESET where you can have parental control and set the programs that the kids can use