Draft Policy Framework
Prelude
This Charter draws on Egypt's official commitment to the protection and promotion of children's rights which is firmly grounded in a comprehensive and binding legal and regulatory framework at both the national and international levels:
At the constitutional level, Article 80 of the Constitution of the Arab Republic of Egypt guarantees the rights of every child under the age of eighteen and mandates their protection from all forms of violence, abuse, exploitation and neglect.
- This commitment is operationalized through Child Law No. 12 of 1996, as amended by Law No. 126 of 2008, which constitutes the primary national legislation governing child protection, including provisions addressing risks arising in digital environments.
- Complementary legislation further strengthens this framework, notably the Anti-Cybercrime Law No. 175 of 2018, which criminalizes online harms including exploitation and abuse.
- The Personal Data Protection Law No. 151 of 2020 provides enhanced safeguards for the processing of children's data.
- Additional regulatory provisions, including the Telecom Regulation Law No. 10 of 2003 and relevant cybersecurity frameworks, contribute to ensuring safe digital and communication environments.
- At the international level, Egypt is a State Party to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocols, the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (Palermo Protocol), all of which impose binding obligations to protect children from exploitation and harm, including in digital contexts.
This Charter also builds upon Egypt's national artificial intelligence governance framework, including the Egyptian Charter for Responsible Artificial Intelligence (2023), Egypt's National Artificial Intelligence Strategy, Second Edition (2025-2030), and relevant national guidance concerning trustworthy and responsible Al. It further takes into account international frameworks concerning artificial intelligence and children's rights, including General Comment No. 25 on children's rights in relation to the digital environment, UNICEF's Guidance on Artificial Intelligence and Children, the UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, and relevant ITU Child Online Protection frameworks.
Collectively, these instruments establish a robust legal foundation upon which this Charter builds to address emerging challenges related to artificial intelligence and digital technologies.
1. Introduction and Background
Artificial Intelligence is increasingly shaping the lives of children in Egypt and around the world. Children encounter Al systems through education platforms, online services, recommendation systems, social media, games, digital assistants, generative Al tools, and public services. These systems can create significant opportunities for learning, inclusion, accessibility, creativity, health, and protection. At the same time, they may expose children to new and complex risks, including harmful content, disinformation, algorithmic bias, privacy violations, manipulation, deepfakes, cyberbullying, exploitation, over-reliance on automated outputs, and unsafe interactions with Al chatbots or companion systems.
Children may also face specific digital and Al-related risks, including content risks such as harmful, hateful, misleading, or age-inappropriate content; consumer risks such as fraud, profiling, privacy violations, and security breaches; conduct-related risks such as cyberbullying, excessive or unbalanced screen time, and image-based abuse; and contact-related risks such as grooming, luring, exploitation, and other forms of online abuse.
Egypt recognizes that children are not ordinary users of technology. They are distinct rights-holders whose physical, cognitive, psychological, social, and emotional development requires special protection and guidance being themselves intense users of technologies. Their evolving capacities must be respected, but they must not be treated as adults simply because they are able to access digital services or interact with Al tools. All children under the age of 18 remain entitled to the full protection of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and relevant national laws.
This Charter builds on Egypt's overall national Al architecture including: the Egyptian Charter for Responsible Al, the second edition of the National AI Strategy, the Guide to Egypt's National Al Governance Framework, the National Guidelines for Trustworthy and Responsible Al, in addition to the above-mentioned legal instruments. It also extensively draws on UNICEF's Guidance on Al and Children, and is inspired by the OECD Al Principles, the ITU-led Joint Statement on Artificial Intelligence and the Rights of the Child, and relevant Council of Europe human-rights-based Al governance approaches.
The purpose of this Charter is to articulate Egypt's national direction for child-centered Al: an approach that enables innovation while ensuring that every Al system used by, designed for, or likely to affect children is safe, inclusive, transparent, accountable, privacy-preserving, rights-respecting, and aligned with the best interests of the child.
2. Purpose, Scope and Objectives
2.1 Purpose
This Charter provides a national policy framework for the responsible governance, design, development, procurement, deployment, monitoring, and use of Al systems that may affect children in Egypt. It translates child-rights principles into actionable Al governance requirements for government, business, education, civil society, families, and technology actors.
The Charter aims to ensure that Al systems in Egypt are used to protect, guide and empower children, not expose them to harm. It further aims to support Egypt's transition from general responsible Al principles to a dedicated child-centered Al governance layer within the national Al governance framework.
2.2 Scope
This Charter applies to:
- Al systems designed for children;
- Al systems used by children, even if not originally designed for them;
- Al systems that indirectly affect children, including systems used in education, healthcare, social protection, content moderation, public services, telecom services, law enforcement, platform governance, and digital identity;
- public authorities that procure, develop, deploy, or regulate Al systems affecting children;
- private sector actors that design, develop, provide, market, deploy, or operate Al systems or digital platforms used by or affecting children;
- educational institutions, civil society organizations, research institutions, parents, caregivers, and all actors involved in children's digital environment.
Definition of Child
For the purposes of this Charter, a child means any person under eighteen years of age in accordance with Egyptian law. The Charter recognizes that children of different ages, maturity levels, and developmental stages may require differentiated safeguards and protections.
Relationship to Existing Laws
This Charter complements and operationalizes existing Egyptian legislation and governance frameworks relevant to children, data protection, telecommunications, cybersecurity, consumer protection, and responsible Al. It does not replace any obligation established under applicable law.
Applicability
This Charter applies to Al systems designed for, used by, directed towards, or reasonably likely to affect children in Egypt, whether directly or indirectly. It also applies to foreign entities where Al systems or services are made available to children in Egypt, process children's data in Egypt, or otherwise produce material effects on children in Egypt, subject to applicable Egyptian law.
2.3 Objectives
The objectives of this Charter are to:
- Uphold children's rights in Al governance and Al system design.
- Ensure that Al systems affecting children are safe, secure, privacy-preserving, fair, transparent, accountable, and age-appropriate.
- Promote the responsible use of Al to enhance children's learning, development, inclusion, health, protection, and well-being.
- Prevent, mitigate, and remedy harms caused or amplified by Al systems.
- Strengthen national institutional coordination on Al and children.
- Support evidence-based, needs-based, and priority-driven research to guide decision-makers in Al policy.
- Prepare children, teachers, parents, regulators, and society for present and future Al developments.
- Position Egypt as an active contributor to international cooperation and standards on child-centered Al.
3. Foundational Principles for Child-Centered Al
This Charter is grounded in three interrelated foundations: Protection, Provision, and Participation. These reflect the child-rights approach contained in the uploaded guidance and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
3.1 Protection: Do No Harm
Al systems must be designed, developed, deployed, and monitored in ways that protect children from harm, exploitation, abuse, discrimination, manipulation, unsafe content, privacy violations, and harmful automated decisions. Al must not intensify existing vulnerabilities or create new forms of risk for children.
3.2 Provision: Do Good
Al should be used, where appropriate and evidence-based, to support children's rights, learning, accessibility, inclusion, health, creativity, protection, and well-being. Al should expand opportunities for children, especially those facing disability, poverty, geographic disadvantage, low connectivity, displacement, or other forms of vulnerability.
3.3 Participation: Meaningful Participation
Children should be recognized as active rights-holders and stakeholders in Al governance. Their views should be meaningfully sought, considered, and given due weight in the design, evaluation, governance, and monitoring of Al systems that affect them, in accordance with their age, maturity, evolving capacities, safety, and best interests.
4. Core Values
Drawing on the Egyptian Charter for Responsible Al and adapting it to the child-specific context, this Charter is structured around the following values: human-centeredness and child-centeredness, evolving capacities, safety and security, fairness and non-discrimination, transparency and explainability, accountability and human oversight, privacy and data protection, inclusion and accessibility, and respect for human and child rights. The Egyptian Charter for Responsible Al identifies core national values including human-centeredness, transparency and explainability, fairness, accountability, and safety and security.
4.1 Human- and Child-Centeredness
Children's best interests shall be a primary consideration in all Al-related decisions that affect them. Al systems must be designed to support children's development and well-being, not to replace human care, education, protection, or judgment where human responsibility is required.
4.2 Evolving Capacities
The design, deployment, and use of Al systems affecting children should take into account children's evolving capacities, including their age, maturity, developmental needs, and context of use. Safeguards relating to access, autonomy, consent, information, content exposure, interaction, and parental or caregiver involvement should be calibrated accordingly while maintaining protections afforded to all children.
4.3 Safety and Security
Al systems affecting children must be safe, secure, robust, and resilient. They must be protected against misuse, manipulation, cyberattacks, harmful outputs, and unsafe interactions.
4.4 Fairness and Non-Discrimination
Al systems must not discriminate against children on any basis, including gender, disability, socio-economic status, geography, language, culture, connectivity level, family situation, or other circumstances. Age-appropriate design is not discrimination; rather, it is a required safeguard.
4.5 Transparency and Explainability
Children, parents, caregivers, educators, and relevant authorities must be informed when Al systems are used. Explanations must be age-appropriate, clear, accessible, and meaningful.
4.6 Accountability and Human Oversight
Clear responsibility must be assigned across the Al lifecycle. Human oversight is required for decisions that materially affect children, including in education, health, welfare, safety, justice, or access to essential services.
4.7 Privacy and Data Protection
Children's data must be treated as highly sensitive. Processing of children's data must follow data minimization, purpose limitation, security, lawful consent, and strict controls against profiling, behavioral targeting, and exploitation.
4.8 Inclusion and Accessibility
Al systems should be designed to include and benefit all children, including children with disabilities, children in rural and underserved areas, girls, refugee and migrant children, and children on the far side of the digital divide.
4.9 Rights-Based Innovation
Innovation should be encouraged where it advances children's rights, well-being, and development. Innovation that exposes children to unmanaged risks or violates their rights must be prevented, restricted, or prohibited.
5. General Guidelines
5.1 Ensure Regulatory Frameworks, Oversight and Compliance for Child-Centered AI
Egypt shall continue integrating child rights into Al, digital, data protection, telecom, cybersecurity, education, and child protection frameworks. Child-centered Al governance should not be treated as a separate or isolated issue, but as a layer within Egypt's broader Al governance architecture.
Regulatory frameworks should cover Al systems across their lifecycle, including design, data collection, development, testing, procurement, deployment, monitoring, incident reporting, and redress. Public authorities should ensure that Al-related governance instruments are reviewed periodically in light of technological developments and emerging risks.
5.2 Ensure Safety for Children
All Al systems that children use or that affect them must be assessed for potential harms. Special attention should be given to generative Al, Al chatbots, recommendation systems, automated moderation systems, synthetic media tools, surveillance technologies, educational Al systems, and Al systems used in public services.
Safety measures should address harmful and illegal content, cyberbullying, grooming, exploitation, scams, deepfakes, Al-generated abuse material, disinformation, manipulation, harmful self-harm or eating-disorder content, and unsafe emotional dependency on Al systems.
5.3 Protect Children's Data and Privacy
Children's data shall be subject to enhanced protection. Data about children must not be collected, processed, shared, retained, inferred, or used for Al training unless there is a clear lawful basis, strict necessity, proportionality, and appropriate safeguards.
Egypt's Personal Data Protection Law and the Personal Data Protection Center provide an important foundation for enforcing children's privacy protections in Al contexts. The uploaded research document notes that Egypt's Personal Data Protection Law classifies children's data as sensitive and imposes strict rules on consent, licensing, and oversight by the Personal Data Protection Center.
5.4 Ensure Non-Discrimination and Fairness for Children
Al systems affecting children must be designed and tested to avoid bias, exclusion, and discriminatory impacts. Datasets, models, outputs, and decisions must be reviewed for representativeness, fairness, and relevance to Egypt's cultural, linguistic, social, and developmental context.
Special attention should be given to Arabic-language Al, local dialects, children with disabilities, children in lower-connectivity environments, and children whose experiences may be underrepresented in global Al training data.
5.5 Provide Transparency, Explainability and Accountability for Children
Al systems must clearly disclose when children are interacting with Al. Al systems should not be marketed, branded, or designed in a way that causes children to confuse them with humans or develop unsafe emotional dependency.
Age-appropriate explanations should be provided to children and their caregivers regarding how Al systems work, what data they use, what risks they create, and how children or caregivers can object, report, or seek redress.
5.6 Respect Human and Child Rights Through Responsible Al Practice
Businesses and public authorities must respect children's rights throughout the Al lifecycle. They should adopt internal governance processes, due diligence procedures, child rights impact assessments, reporting channels, safety teams, escalation procedures, and mechanisms for remedy.
5.7 Support Children's Best Interests, Development and Well-Being
Al systems should support children's holistic development, not undermine their cognitive, emotional, social, physical, educational, or moral development. Systems should be designed to enhance creativity, autonomy, competence, critical thinking, and social development.
Al systems should not displace human relationships, teacher judgment, parental care, social interaction, play, or other developmental experiences essential for children.
5.8 Ensure Inclusion of and for Children
Child-centered Al requires both inclusion for children and inclusion of children. Al systems should be accessible to diverse children, and children should be consulted meaningfully when systems affect their lives.
Participation must be safe, inclusive, age-appropriate, culturally sensitive, continuous, and distinct from market research or product testing.
5.9 Prepare and Skill Children for Present and Future Al Developments
Children should be equipped with Al literacy, digital literacy, data literacy, media literacy, critical thinking, creativity, problem-solving, safety awareness, and knowledge of their rights in digital and Al environments.
5.10 Create an Enabling Environment for Child-Centered Al
Support infrastructure, research, innovation, institutional coordination, capacity building, investment, evidence generation, and international cooperation to enable child-centered Al. This includes addressing the digital divide and ensuring that rural, low-income, and vulnerable children can benefit from safe and meaningful Al opportunities.
6. Technological Safeguards and Safety-by-Design
6.1 Principle of Safety-by-Design
Al systems that are designed for, used by, or likely to impact children must embed safety, child protection, privacy, cybersecurity, and rights considerations from the earliest stages of design and throughout the entire Al lifecycle. This approach requires moving from reactive moderation after harm occurs to preventive safeguards built into systems by design. Appropriate safeguards should be proportionate to system capabilities, context of use, age group, and the severity of potential risks.
6.2 Age-Appropriate Design and Access Control
Al systems should apply age-appropriate design, access controls, and proportionate age assurance mechanisms where necessary to protect children from harm. Age assurance should respect privacy, avoid excessive data collection, and be proportionate to risk.
Relevant safeguards may include age-adapted interfaces, age-appropriate explanations, content classification, parental control tools, child-safe settings by default, and access restrictions for high-risk Al systems.
6.3 Content Safety and Filtering
Platforms and Al providers should implement effective systems to detect, classify, reduce, block, and remove harmful content affecting children. This includes harmful Al-generated content, synthetic media, deepfakes, disinformation, cyberbullying, grooming, scams, and content promoting self-harm, violence, exploitation, or other harms.
Content moderation should combine automated tools with human oversight, especially where children's rights, safety, or freedom of expression may be affected.
6.4 Safeguards for Generative Al and Chatbots
Generative Al systems and chatbots used by or accessible to children must include guardrails against harmful outputs, manipulation, unsafe advice, emotional dependency, anthropomorphic design, and exploitative interactions.
Such systems should clearly disclose that they are Al systems, avoid presenting themselves as human companions, apply age-appropriate interaction limits, and include escalation mechanisms where child safety risks are detected.
Safeguards should also address impersonation, synthetic media, content provenance, watermarking where appropriate, and the prevention of emotionally manipulative Al interactions with children.
6.5 Privacy-by-Design and Data Minimization
Al systems affecting children must apply privacy-by-design and data minimization. Children should not be required to provide unnecessary data to access digital or educational services. Children's data should not be used for profiling, behavioral advertising, exploitative personalization, or Al training without lawful basis and strict safeguards.
6.6 Security, Robustness and Misuse Prevention
Al systems affecting children must be tested for security, robustness, resilience, and misuse risks. Technical safeguards should address adversarial manipulation, prompt injection, model and data poisoning, unauthorized access, account compromise, impersonation, phishing, fraud, malicious content generation, and exploitation of system vulnerabilities. Providers should implement appropriate monitoring, vulnerability-management processes, secure configuration, access controls, incident response procedures, and mechanisms for secure updates and remediation.
6.7 Provenance, Watermarking and Traceability
Al-generated content that may affect children should be subject to appropriate transparency, labeling, provenance, and traceability mechanisms. This may include watermarking, content authenticity tools, and mechanisms to identify Al-generated or manipulated media where such content may mislead, harm, exploit, or manipulate children.
6.8 Leveraging Al for Child Protection
Al may be used responsibly to support child protection, including detecting harmful content, identifying cyberbullying and grooming patterns, supporting reporting systems, helping identify exploitation risks, and enhancing rapid
response mechanisms. Such use must comply with privacy, fairness, human oversight, and child rights safeguards.
6.9 Procurement Safeguards
Public authorities procuring Al systems that may affect children should ensure that such systems comply with child-rights, safety, privacy, cybersecurity, transparency, accountability, and accessibility requirements before acquisition and deployment.
7. A National Governance Model with Clear Multi-Stakeholder Roles and Responsibilities
Effective governance of Al systems affecting children requires a whole-of-society approach. Responsibility is shared among government, business, academia, civil society, educators, parents, caregivers, and children themselves, while recognizing that the State bears the primary duty to protect, respect, and fulfil children's rights.
7.1 Government Entities
Government entities are responsible for laws, policies, standards, enforcement, public procurement, oversight, remedies, awareness, public services, and national coordination. They should ensure that Al systems used in public services affecting children meet child-rights, safety, transparency, privacy, and accountability requirements.
7.1.1 The National Council for Artificial Intelligence
The National Council for Artificial Intelligence provides strategic direction for Al governance in Egypt, endorses national Al policies and standards, coordinates cross-government efforts, and ensures that child-centered Al is integrated into Egypt's broader responsible Al framework.
7.1.2 Role of MCIT and the Egyptian Center for Responsible Al
MCIT and the Egyptian Center for Responsible Al support operationalization of responsible Al governance, policy development, standards alignment, capacity building, research, foresight, stakeholder coordination, and implementation support. The Egyptian Center for Responsible Al can support the development of tools, guidelines, assessment templates, and sectoral guidance for child-centered Al, including child rights impact assessments and safety-by-design requirements.
7.1.3 Ministry of Education and Technical Education
7.1.4 Role of the National Council for Childhood and Motherhood
The National Council for Childhood and Motherhood should ensure that child protection, child rights, reporting systems, hotlines, awareness, and social protection perspectives are fully integrated into Al governance. NCCM should contribute to child-centered impact assessments, incident referral pathways, awareness campaigns, and training of frontline actors dealing with children affected by Al-enabled harms.
7.1.5 Role of the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority and EG-CERT
The National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority has a central role in the governance of telecom networks, digital services, connected devices, online safety measures, and regulatory requirements that affect children's digital environment. NTRA should contribute to child-centered Al governance through different technical tools including connectivity, safe browsing and parental controls. EG-CERT should have an explicit role in child-centered Al governance through cybersecurity assessment of high-risk Al systems, monitoring and incident response.
7.1.6 Role of the Personal Data Protection Center
The Personal Data Protection Center should supervise compliance with national data protection requirements whenever Al systems process children's personal data or sensitive data. It should support privacy impact assessments, licensing requirements, consent safeguards, data minimization rules, and enforcement mechanisms related to children's data.
7.2 Private Sector and Technology Providers
Businesses that design, develop, deploy, market, or operate Al systems affecting children must respect children's rights throughout the Al lifecycle. They must implement safety-by-design, privacy-by-design, child rights impact assessments, transparency mechanisms, reporting channels, risk mitigation, and effective human oversight.
They should go beyond minimum compliance and treat child-centered Al as a trust, safety, and market responsibility.
7.3 Telecom Operators and Digital Service Providers
Telecom operators and digital service providers play a key role in child-safe connectivity, online safety tools, reporting systems, content controls, cybersecurity awareness, safe access mechanisms, and cooperation with regulators. They should coordinate with NTRA and EG-CERT on cybersecurity threats, incident handling, early warning, and awareness measures where Al-enabled risks affect children.
7.4 Educational Institutions and Teachers
The Ministry of Education and Technical Education should play a central role in evaluating the safe use of Al in educational environments and promoting age-appropriate Al literacy and responsible use of Al tools in schools.
Schools, universities, and education authorities are responsible for ensuring that Al tools in education are safe, evidence-based, pedagogically sound, privacy-preserving, and aligned with children's best interests. Teachers should be trained not only to use Al for education, but also to identify and respond to Al-related risks, including misleading content, hallucinations, deepfakes, unsafe chatbot interactions, cyberbullying, and misuse of generative Al. Al systems used in education should support, rather than replace, human judgment in teaching, assessment, student support, and educational decision-making.
7.5 Parents and Caregivers
Parents and caregivers have an important role in guiding children's use of Al, supporting digital literacy, encouraging safe behavior, understanding privacy risks, and engaging with education and awareness resources. Their role complements, but does not replace, the responsibilities of governments and businesses to create safe Al environments.
7.6 Civil Society
Civil society organizations contribute to awareness, advocacy, independent monitoring, child protection support, community engagement, reporting pathways, inclusion of vulnerable children, and policy feedback.
7.7 Academia and Research Institutions
Academia and research institutions should conduct evidence-based and participatory research on Al and children, support foresight, evaluate national interventions, develop tools for safe and inclusive Al, and provide policy advice to decision-makers.
7.8 Children and Youth
Children should be recognized as active stakeholders. Their participation in Al governance, design, testing, evaluation, and policy discussions should be meaningful, safe, inclusive, age-appropriate, and continuous.
Effective implementation of this Charter requires cooperation among government entities, regulators, international organizations, standards bodies, businesses, academia, civil society organizations, parents, caregivers, and children themselves in the development and continuous improvement of child-centered Al governance practices.
8. Impact Assessment, Monitoring and Redress
8.1 Child Rights Impact Assessments
Al systems that are designed for children, used by children, or likely to materially affect children should be subject to child rights impact assessments before deployment and at regular intervals thereafter. The charter encourages assessments that examine safety, privacy, fairness, transparency, explainability, psychological impact, developmental impact, accessibility, inclusion, risks of manipulation, and potential harms to vulnerable children.
Child Rights Impact Assessments should be periodically reviewed and updated, particularly following significant changes in system functionality, deployment context, risk profile, or target population.
8.2 Monitoring and Oversight
Organizations should establish appropriate monitoring and oversight mechanisms to ensure the continued safety, reliability, and compliance of Al systems affecting children throughout their lifecycle. High-risk Al systems should be subject to proportionate technical and organizational assessments covering safety, fairness, privacy, transparency, robustness, and security.
8.3 Incident Reporting and Redress
Children, parents, caregivers, educators, and institutions should have accessible channels to report Al-related harms. Reporting systems should be child-friendly, safe, confidential, and connected to competent authorities.
Redress mechanisms should allow children and caregivers to challenge Al-related decisions, seek human review, obtain explanations, request correction, and access protection or support services where harm occurs.
9. Al Literacy, Capacity Building and Awareness
9.1 Al Literacy for Children
Children should be equipped with the knowledge and skills needed to understand Al systems, use them responsibly, identify risks, question outputs, protect their data, understand bias, and avoid over-reliance on automated systems.
Al literacy should include ethics, privacy, safety, misinformation, academic integrity, environmental impacts of Al, and children's rights in Al environments.
9.2 Training for Teachers
Teacher training should move from "Al for education" toward "Al for education and child protection." Teachers should be prepared to use Al tools responsibly while also safeguarding children from Al-related risks.
9.3 Capacity Building for Frontline Actors
Capacity-building programs should include teachers, social workers, hotline operators, regulators, telecom actors, cybersecurity professionals, police, prosecutors, judges, public procurement officers, and Al developers.
9.4 Public Awareness
Egypt should continue expanding public awareness through national platforms and campaigns, including child online safety, cybersecurity, privacy, safe Al use, deepfake risks, scams, misinformation, and chatbot risks.
10. Foresight and Horizon Scanning
Establish or assign a foresight function to monitor future Al trends affecting children. This includes generative Al, agentic Al, Al companions, Al-enabled cybercrime, deepfakes, neurotechnology, robotics, IoT-enabled Al, educational Al, and future labor-market shifts.
Foresight outputs should inform policy updates, regulatory sandboxes, public procurement rules, school guidance, awareness programs, and international engagement.
11. International Cooperation and Global Engagement
Al systems affecting children operate across borders. This requires that child-centered Al governance be based on international cooperation, global standards, interoperable governance approaches, and cross-border coordination.
It is recommendable to contribute to international standards dealing with safety-by-design, child online protection, Al risk management, data protection, age assurance, transparency, Al literacy, and child rights impact assessment.
11.1 Cross-Border Risk Mitigation
Cooperate internationally to address harmful Al-generated content, child exploitation, deepfakes, cybercrime, scams, grooming, and cross-border platform risks. This includes cooperation among regulators, cybersecurity bodies, law enforcement, CERTS, child protection agencies, and international organizations.
11.2 Capacity Building and Development Cooperation
Support international capacity building on child-centered Al, particularly for developing countries and the Global South. This includes sharing national experience, participating in regional consultations, supporting public-sector capacity, and contributing to knowledge exchange on operationalizing responsible Al for children.
12. Monitoring, Review and Continuous Improvement
Given the rapid pace of Al development, this Charter should be periodically reviewed to ensure continued relevance. Updates should take into account:
- emerging technologies;
- new risks and incidents;
- evidence from national research;
- international standards and guidance;
- feedback from children, families, educators, civil society, regulators, and industry;
- lessons learned from implementation.
Conclusion
This Charter provides a child-centered layer within Egypt's responsible Al governance model. It translates global principles into national action, combines legal, institutional, technical, educational, and societal measures, and reinforces Egypt's role as a proactive contributor to international Al governance.
By adopting this Charter, Egypt seeks to ensure that Al systems affecting children are safe by design, rights-respecting by default, inclusive by purpose, accountable by structure, and aligned with the best interests of every child.
The Charter is meant to be used as a guide to all stakeholders involved in Child affairs and AΙ.
