Children face a complex digital everyday life and during the summer holidays, screen time can increase, and thus their vulnerability.
Now Telia and Bris are updating the Mobile Driving License with a new section on artificial intelligence (AI), to strengthen children’s knowledge of how technology works and clarify its risks and opportunities. The Mobile Driving License also provides adults with better support in conversations with children about a safe and secure digital life.
The Mobile Driving License is a knowledge-raising service from Telia and Bris that has been supporting children and guardians to a safe and secure start with their first mobile phone since 2020. The content is a tool for important conversations about life online and covers everything from safety, viruses and online trolls to games, screen time and social media.
The service is now being updated to reflect the digital everyday life, where AI is part of many children’s internet use. The new section explains how AI is used in apps and services, how algorithms affect content and behavior, and how children can think about privacy, source criticism and boundaries when encountering AI-powered functions.
The service also focuses on strengthening children’s ability to be a good friend online and contribute to a friendlier internet. The platform consists of interactive quiz questions that children and adults can explore together and use as a basis for conversations about digital safety. In connection with the new section, Telia and Bris are launching a campaign to increase awareness of the Mobile Driving License.
The mobile driving license is available to everyone free of charge at mobilkorkortet.se and anyone who completes all parts will receive a digital mobile driving license as proof of their knowledge.
Charlotta Brask, Sustainability Manager at Telia Sweden
As one of Sweden’s largest telecom companies, we have a responsibility to contribute to increased digital safety. Through the collaboration with Bris and the update of the Mobile Driving License, we want to give both children and their adults concrete tools to manage children’s increasingly connected and complex everyday lives
Maria Frisk, Secretary General of Bris
AI is already present in children’s everyday lives – in school, in search engines and in games. Therefore, it is important that adults have enough knowledge to be able to guide and support children in a safe way. With the new AI section in the Mobile Driving License, we want to make it easier to take the calls at home
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