TikTok announced on the 16th that it has signed partnerships with the Blue Tree Foundation and Taktin Tomorrow to create a safe digital environment for youth and promote mental health.
This agreement was promoted for the purpose of proactively responding to various risk factors that youth face in online spaces, such as digital over-reliance, cyber violence, and digital sex crimes, and creating a safer platform environment.
The Blue Tree Foundation is a non-profit organization that focuses on preventing school violence and healing victims, while Taktin Tomorrow focuses on protecting children and adolescents’ sexual rights and improving laws and systems. The two organizations will work with TikTok to provide advice on monitoring harmful content on the platform, search guides, and youth safety regulations.
In addition, practical educational programs such as digital etiquette education for youth and their guardians and guidance on how to respond in case of damage will be prepared. TikTok plans to operate educational sessions to strengthen the digital utilization capacity of activists from the Blue Tree Foundation and Taktin Tomorrow, and open an agency-linked counseling channel at the TikTok Safety Center so that users can receive professional counseling.
In addition, TikTok plans to continue to run campaigns throughout the year to ensure that teenagers and parents can use the platform with confidence.
“As technology changes, the issues faced by young people are also changing,” said Lucy Chesterton, Partnerships Director for TikTok’s Trust and Safety team in Asia Pacific. “Through this collaboration, we will better understand the risks posed by the online environment for young people and develop practical measures to protect them.”
Gil-Sung Park, Chairman of the Blue Tree Foundation, said, “This partnership is a new starting point based on many years of collaboration,” and added, “We expect that the joint efforts of both organizations to create a safe online environment will lead to real change.”
Lee Hyun-sook, the standing representative of Taktin Tomorrow, said, “A safe digital environment can be built more effectively when government regulations, voluntary corporate responsibility, and cooperation from civil society are combined,” adding, “I hope this case of cooperation will establish itself as a positive model.”
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