Awo Aidam Amenyah is Child Online Africa’s founder and Executive Director, a child and family focused charity working in Ghana and beyond through strategic partnerships. In this role, Awo leads the team of professionals and volunteers committed to influencing policies and changing practices in favour of child well-being keeping the child in Africa safe while they are online.

Since 2013, Awo has been at the forefront of the call on government and other stakeholders to put in place measures safeguard children within the cyberspace and this call resulted in a revolution regarding Child Protection interventions in Ghana. The teams work influenced the National Cyber Security Policy and Strategy in Ghana in 2015 and the Africa Union’s Agenda 2040 in 2018 to prioritize Child Online Protection.

Awo is DQ World Training Partner, a member of the National Child Online Protection Steering Committee (Ghana) and Child Online Protection implementation partner for ITU.The passion to make things happen for the child in Africa compelled her to start the rallying call for Safer Internet Day celebrations in Ghana since 2015, evolving into Safer Internet Day Africa in 2019 which saw 12 other African countries participating.Africa Week of Action for Child Online Protection. In her quest to sustain the continental level discussion and the anger of slow pace of action saw the saw her summitting successfully on Mt. Kilimanjaro (19341Ft AMSL) in August 2019 as a social cause to raise awareness on Child Online Safety and Wellbeing in Africa

The Purpose, Passion and Pursuit to have children and young people Protected, Provided for to be able to Participate responsibly in the digital space. I cannot imagine not doing what I do, I love working with/for children.