ACOSA Summit
The Africa Child Online Safety Summit brings stakeholders from across the continent together to advance child online safety through dialogue, evidence and collaboration.
Upcoming summit
AI, Children and Age-Appropriate Digital Participation
Governments, technology companies, civil society, researchers, development partners and young people meet in Dakar to shape a safer, more inclusive digital future for children.
Convened by ACOSA · In partnership with Polaris Asso
About the summit
Each edition examines how the digital environment is changing for children and what practical, African-led responses should look like. Discussions draw on African evidence and keep children's rights at the centre.
Organisations exchange research, tools and experience from very different national contexts.
Policymakers, regulators and practitioners work through what protective frameworks should look like.
Partnerships formed at the summit carry the work forward between editions.
Previous summits
Completed2025 · Nairobi, Kenya
Empowering Africa's Digital Generation
19 – 20 November 2025
The second edition in Nairobi, convened by ACOSA, moved from inaugural dialogue toward practical recommendations.
Completed2024 · Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
19 – 20 November 2024
The inaugural gathering in Addis Ababa that established ACOSA as a pan-African platform for child online safety.
Partnership, sponsorship, speaking and participation opportunities for the Dakar Summit are open now.
