Topic: 2026 – Digital Equity for Children
Country: Brazil
Delegate Name: Ethan Ortman
Digital equality is something that our nation has taken great strides in during recent times, with us signing The Digital ECA into law during September (“Brazil: Digital ECA (Brazil’s Child and Adolescent Statute)”) to be put into effect during March. We are assuring that the future generations will be safe and flourish with these Digital ECA laws, and making sure they are digitally protected is a perfect beginning step for all of us. Our services are already preparing for when this law goes into full effect, and all of our other South American neighbors should follow suit for when they implement their own services and laws.
We are one of the first Latin American countries to implement these laws (5RightsFoundation), which is already an important stepping stone in itself. But we still feel like we are doing what should be the bare minimum for other countries. Despite being an Upper-Middle class nation (World Bank Group), we still have little enforcement or full implementation of this law due to other internal, political crises, high debts, and border issues with Venezuela (Matos). We hope to ensure these laws will bind with other countries and their own laws.
Our new laws should be the perfect blueprint for all other nations, for we have taken a lot of time and care in reforming and reflecting our decisions in these laws. Our new laws make it so certain items of exposure, like gambling, harassment, pornography, and other harmful ideologies, require app stores to have access to the user’s age in order to recommend the correct material, prohibiting lootboxes in video games, parental controls on devices, and the removal of predatory advertising of products. If a user sees anything dangerous or of note on the internet, it is necessary to report it to the authorities if possible (“Brazil: Digital ECA (Brazil’s Child and Adolescent Statute)”). We do hope that, at the very least, abridged versions of this are what many countries will use in their future.
Our overall goal is to make sure that all people, especially children, are safe on the internet via our Digital ECA laws and other needed enforcement measures. We, as the country of Brazil, hope that all other nations help out their youth with these internet legislations.
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