BuddyGuard helps children & parents with social media challenges
The Social Media
Children today ”live” in their smartphones
It's where children interact and make new connections, learning and exploring the world.
The social media is the new Playground
It's where children interact and make new connections, learning and exploring the world.
The Challenges
The social media has many challenges for children, such as:
Inappropriate content
90%
Exposed to pornography
guardchild.com, 2019
Cyber bullying
59%
Bullied or Harassed Online
Pew Research Center – Cyberbullying, 2018
Cyber Predators
82%
Sex crimes involving minors initiated in Social Media
KeyLogger review – Online predators statistics & facts, 2018
The Parent - Child Paradigm
The social media challenges lead to new and complex coping issues for both children and parents who are now required to continuously monitor their children's activities online Thus, creating tension around the use of a smartphone.
Parents are Feeling Helpless
On the one hand, parents need confidence in their ability and that of their children to cope with these challenges, without compromising their children's personal space and privacy.
No Trust
Parents want their children to be Educated not Policed
Children are Feeling Powerless
On the other hand, many children have a high awareness of the various social media challenges but they don’t always recognize them in real time and they often don’t share with their parents or other adults.
Children want to Feel Independent
Our Approach
At BuddyGuard, we believe that the solution lies in an evidence-based psycho-educational approach that engages in dialogue with both children and parents and strengthens and guides them in real time.
This approach promotes an open and safe environment that encourage the creation of Epistemic Trust
Using this approach is also critical in identifying the challenges themselves, because in many cases it is difficult to identify potential dangers on social media and the challenges are not always obvious.
Our Solution
AI Challenges Detection
Using Machine Learning to identify challenges in real time
Parents Support Tools
Promote Interaction with The child
Provide Information
& Management tools
Smart Chat Bot
Creates an appealing & guiding dialog with the child and parent based on psych-educational best practices
Knowledge Base
Challenges Intelligence
Challenges research
How-To guides
Interaction
Create high level of engagement through Gamification, Rewards and social empowering
About Us
BuddyGuard is a venture born within the IDCBeyond program of the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya which promotes 21st century problem-solving entrepreneurs with a positive impact on society.
With a deep understanding of the devastating damages that can be caused to children and youth as a result of unsafe / unhealthy use of social networks and the ineffectiveness of existing approaches and solutions, we have decided to tackle the question of the safety and health of children in social media spaces in a scientifically proven way that can be implemented and meet real users needs.
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