Ms Fiona Jennings:

I have three examples. One is our GroSafe project that is funded by Research Ireland in association with TU Dublin. It employs AI technologies around building a technology-enabled solution to develop societal resilience against child grooming. There is a digital game built around this as well as a knowledge-management system, a reporting feature and a signposting service. That is currently in development. We are before the international panel review next week. We are in the final three and we hope to make it to the final one. Our N-Light project is also underpinned by AI technologies. That is going to automatically interpret the feeling and sentiment of child web text messages. It involves machine learning that has been trained by our own data from our Childline web chat service. Again, that is going to allow us to better understand how children are talking about these issues from their perspective. This really puts that “voice of the child” piece into action.

Another project is going to be looking at is a regulatory sandbox for online redress, Webwise. My colleague Ms McGarrigle is a project partner.