Kjartan Ólafsson presented on the EU Kids Online study of 25,000 children aged 9–16 and their parents in 25 European countries. The first phase of EU Kids Online (2006–09) built a network of European scholars and resulted in a series of reports, a research database and a book assessing the state of evidence-based policy for children’s technology use.13 The pan-European survey was conducted during phase II (2009–11). In the past few years, the network has grown to include over 33 countries.
Outputs of the network include a research toolkit that has been used in Russia, Brazil and Australia to measure the risks and opportunities children encounter in their daily internet use.14 The cross-national studies allow for comparisons across age, gender, socioeconomic status and geography. By including parents, comparisons of parental mediation strategies and levels of parental awareness of children’s experiences become possible.