Netsafe

In preparation for Netsafety Week 2026, we invited students from across Aotearoa New Zealand to design a bookmark inspired by this year's theme: "Online Safety is a Team Sport – Play Your Part."

We're excited to celebrate our winning designers, whose creativity and understanding of online safety stood out among the entries received.

Each of our top three winners will receive a $50 book voucher, and their bookmark designs will be professionally printed and distributed through public libraries across New Zealand during Netsafety Week (17–23 August 2026).

A huge congratulations to our winners and thank you to every student, teacher, and school who took part. Your designs help share an important message about creating safer online communities for everyone.

💜 Online Safety is a Team Sport – Play Your Part.

Keep an eye out for all the good things coming this Netsafety Week 2026 : https://netsafe.org.nz/netsafety-week-2026

Supporting young people through online harm starts with a conversation.

Our new free Responding to Online Harm Introductory training is now live on our website.

Developed with practitioners and subject matter experts and shaped by feedback from young people, the training helps build confidence in recognising online harm and responding to young people when they reach out.

Interactive and self-paced, the training can be completed in less than an hour.

Complete the training in June and go in the draw to win a $250 Fuel Voucher.

Plus, there are prezzy cards up for grabs until August, and organisations can get additional rewards, just make sure you submit your details at the end of our reflection module.
• 10+ completions: tailored online workshop
• 15+ completions: free morning tea pack

Start the training today:
https://netsafe.org.nz/business-and-community -you-work-with-young-people?utm_source=social&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=rtoh_training_launch_2026

🌈 Happy Global Pride Month!

Pride is a time to celebrate diversity, identity, and the right for everyone to be themselves.

Creating safer online spaces means fostering communities where people feel respected, supported, and able to participate without fear of harassment, discrimination, or harm.

This Pride Month, let's all play our part in building a more inclusive internet, one where everyone can connect, learn, and belong.

💜 Because everyone deserves to feel safe online.

Netsafety Week 2026 is coming this August
🗓 17–23 August 2026

This year’s theme, Online safety is a team sport — play your part, is all about coming together to help create safer online spaces across Aotearoa New Zealand.

There are so many ways to get involved. From hosting a small activity to sharing resources or joining one of our events, every action helps.

Take a look at our draft programme and register your interest here : https://netsafe.org.nz/netsafety-week-2026

⚠️ Stalking is a pattern of repeated and unwanted behaviour that causes fear or distress. It can happen both online and offline through phones, social media, location sharing, fake accounts, messaging, and other digital spaces.

From today, stalking will officially become a criminal offence in Aotearoa New Zealand. Under the new law, repeated behaviour directed at another person that is likely to cause fear or distress may be considered stalking, including behaviour carried out online or through digital technology.

Online stalking can include:
• repeated unwanted messages or contact
• monitoring someone’s activity or location
• fake accounts or impersonation
• threats or intimidation online
• sharing or threatening to share private information or intimate images
• attempts to access someone’s accounts or devices 📱

Netsafe has worked alongside Women's Refuge New Zealand
, Shine, The Light Project, Auckland Women's Centre to develop guidance, support, and practical safety information to help people better understand stalking behaviours and where to seek help. 💜

Visit our stalking resource page here : https://netsafe.org.nz/online-abuse-and-harassment/stalking

🎧 Resources from the Digital Guardian Guide

The Screen From Our Side is a youth-led podcast sharing real, unfiltered perspectives on growing up in a digital world.

Created by rangatahi in Dunedin, the series explores the realities of life online from social media and identity to online harm, wellbeing, gaming, and emerging technologies like AI.

Through honest conversations and lived experiences, young people share how digital spaces shape connection, pressure, creativity, and everyday life online.

Explore the podcast series and more free resources through the Digital Guardian Guide https://digitalguardian.guide/ or by listening to the full playlist here on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6zEmvw4VkV58wQDuWrLIe2