'Needed interventions': Google teams up with local business to promote online safety in Africa

Impact Accelerator (IA), a social impact-focused accelerator and capital advisory business, launched a platform aimed at promoting internet safety in South Africa and the rest of the continent, thanks to funding from Google.

Through the new Africa Online Safety Platform, people can access research, educational content, funding opportunities, and ways to get help when faced with cybercrime.

"The African internet safety ecosystem is hindered by several issues, key among them is the lack of a central repository of all the online safety research that has been conducted on a broad spectrum of issues in Africa.