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Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission. Digizen - Home. Learning from experience. How does the Cybersmart program stay up-to-date with the way children and young people use technology? This is an landscape that is changing at the speed of light, and it’s critical to know what the current issues really are, who they’re most important to, and how they might successfully be addressed within the educational framework we provide. We speak with literally thousands of children and young people each year as part of our internet safety awareness presentations in schools. This level of face-to-face interaction gives a perpetual stream of up-to-the-minute intelligence about what’s ‘in’ and what’s not, and what kind of things kids are actually doing. We also conduct formal research: the ACMA has released a number of widely acknowledged studies into how Australian families use media and technology, including our 2009 study “Click and Connect: Young Australians’ use of social media”.

A number of key findings stand out: Why? Privacy Victoria - Home.