Category: News
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Australia has taken a courageous stand for child safety. In November 2024, Parliament passed landmark legislation banning social media access for children under 16, with enforcement beginning December 10, 2025. Platforms including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, X, and Reddit must prevent under-16s from creating accounts or face fines up to $50 million. This isn’t just…
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Australia’s phone numbering system is refreshingly simple: four area codes for landlines (02, 03, 07, 08) and one prefix for all mobile phones (04). But this simplicity creates a problem for schools. There’s no safe, dedicated way for students, teachers, and staff to communicate using phones—especially for the millions of students under 18. Our School…
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As the School Contact proposal continues to take shape as a regional communication system for safer, more structured interactions between students, teachers, and parents, one exciting question arises: Which countries could eventually participate in this unified network? While our initial vision focuses on the United States, Canada, and eventually Mexico, there is a group of…
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And How School Contact Will Protect Their Privacy In the near future, students will continue to move across borders more frequently than ever before. It will be increasingly common for Canadian students to attend school in the United States, whether for a semester, a year, or an entire program. Even when these students relocate, one…
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A Digital Identity for Every Student, Teacher, and Family Imagine a Mexico where every student, teacher, and parent can communicate securely through verified digital identities — from the first day of Primary School to graduation from Preparatoria. That vision can now become a reality. The Need for a National Education Identity Across Mexico, education is…
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A future powered by voice is coming to education. Discover how verified 10-digit student and teacher IDs will make voice assistants secure, personalized, and transformative for every classroom.
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In today’s fragmented school communication landscape, messages flow through dozens of unverified systems — from district-specific email servers to personal inboxes. This patchwork of tools creates confusion, security risks, and missed connections between families and schools. The School Contact Initiative changes that. It introduces a verified, role-based email and identity framework that can unify communication…
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The Hidden Danger in Every Child’s Pocket A smartphone isn’t just a tool — it’s a portal.Through that portal, millions of minors connect to the world, often without real protection. Behind every text message, call, or social media notification, there’s a risk: data collection, predatory contact, cyberbullying, or exposure to content that no parent or…
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America’s First Step Toward Modern, Secure Education Communication We Can’t Modernize Education Without Fixing Its Communications Infrastructure America’s schools have spent decades upgrading classrooms, testing platforms, and student data systems — but the one thing we’ve never modernized is how we talk to each other. Today, every district, school, and teacher uses a patchwork of…
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Policy, Privacy, and Blockchain Security in School Contact In the modern digital classroom, communication is constant — between students, teachers, parents, and administrators. But with that communication comes a growing responsibility: protecting privacy, ensuring accountability, and maintaining public trust. The School Contact Initiative is meeting that challenge head-on with advanced Administrative Compliance Tools that combine…