Course: Safety By Design

With 3.8 billion active users of social media globally, and an additional one billion internet users projected to come online in the coming years (WEF 2020, p. 3), designing online …

An international issue It is not only Australia that is investing in bringing user safety and rights to the forefront of online product, service and platform design and development. User …

You may find these additional resources useful to learn more about the concepts addressed in Week 4 of the Safety by Design course: Carr, J 2021, Safety by Design takes …

You may find these additional resources useful to learn more about the concepts addressed in Week 3 of the Safety by Design course: Barbaschow, A 2021, New ‘Safety by Design’ …

Resources for this week Glossaries These two glossaries contain information on a wide range of online safety and cyber security terms and may be a useful learning resource throughout the …

When the participant has completed an assessment tool module, their responses are used to generate a tailored report. Watch this video and read the following for a brief overview of …

Congratulations on completing the Safety by Design course! Before you embark on your next step in the user safety journey, let’s hear from Professor Matt Warren once more as he …

As we wrap up this course, let’s review the major themes of Safety by Design. Watch this short video, in which Matt Warren summarises the major themes of the Safety …

How do you effectively design, develop and deploy online products and services with user safety and rights front and centre? This is the big question posed at the beginning of …

Now that we know more about the Safety by Design assessment tools, it’s time to take the tools for a test drive. You may be a member of an organisation …

There are three steps involved in using each of the assessment tools: Some important notes about using the tools The assessment process can be completed over several sessions. Participants get …

To ensure that online harms are reduced through the effective implementation of Safety by Design, it is important to consider the wider technology ecosystem. Applying a Safety by Design approach …

Watch the Australian eSafety Commissioner talk about the importance of nurturing tech ventures, and the investor resources that have been developed to support financial entities and investors in assessing whether …

This short video message from your course guide, Professor Matt Warren, gives a brief overview of the fourth and final week of the course. This week we will focus on …

Congratulations on completing Week 3 of the Safety by Design course. Watch as Professor Matt Warren recounts the main points that were covered this week.