New Report from World Childhood Foundation on The Role of Data launched March 24th 2026.
Artificial Intelligence begins with data. Data is everywhere — in the surveys we run, the reports we write, the statistics we track. It is also the foundation of artificial intelligence, shaping the quality and accuracy of any AI tool we use.
For many organisations working to protect children, the path to working with data feels unclear, lined with technical terms and complicated regulations. Across the field, there is a recognition that the data we need is too often incomplete, inaccessible, or invisible. With tech-facilitated sexual abuse of children continues to rise rapidly, understanding this building block of AI has never been more urgent. And still, the step from managing data to using it for AI development feels long.
The report “The Role of Data – Leveraging AI to combat child sexual abuse” represent our attempt to better understand the data landscape, and bridge that step.
In the report, we explore how data from five sectors of the Swedish society might be used to develop or apply AI in efforts to prevent child sexual abuse. It has been a venture into new territories of understanding, uncovering the practical, legal, ethical, and organizational barriers that make it difficult to access or share data. And importantly, it examines which of those barriers are real, and which are based on assumptions, habits, or lack of coordination.
Read the full report here.
The report was produced within the project Stella Polaris, funded by the Swedish Postcode Lottery.
