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Launched by the Digicel Foundation on Safer Internet Day 2025, this nationwide programme has trained 34,000+ students across 150 Jamaican schools and 2,000+ senior citizens in digital literacy and online-safety skills, and is now expanding to reach parents and teachers.
The Digicel Foundation Jamaica has invested a cumulative US$22.5 million across more than 575 development projects reaching over 570,000 Jamaicans since its founding, giving it an established institutional and funding base for new initiatives.
Launched on Safer Internet Day (11 February 2025) as a year-long nationwide initiative, Safer Internet Together (SIT) aims to build digital literacy, online-safety awareness and cyber-hygiene skills across age groups.
SIT is delivered in partnership with 150 schools islandwide, plus dedicated digital-literacy and AI-awareness workshops for seniors held during Senior Citizens' Month. In July 2026 the Foundation announced it was broadening the programme to include parents and teachers, aiming to equip adults to guide and monitor children's online behaviour.
Within its first year, SIT reached more than 34,000 students across the 150 partner schools, more than 2,000 senior citizens, and over 100 additional community members.
As a corporate-foundation programme still in its second year, SIT's reach figures come from the Foundation's own and press reporting rather than an independent evaluation, and no third-party assessment of learning outcomes has yet been published.
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