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2022 Corporate Responsibility Report

Joint commitment with partners

We have taken on the task of driving forward the social discussion on digital responsibility. To do this, we participate in various alliances and partnerships such as the Corporate Digital Responsibility initiative run by the Federal Ministry for the Environment and Consumer Protection. In 2021, we signed the code of conduct of the initiative, thereby committing ourselves to upholding specific principles. We also published our own Corporate Digital Responsibility framework in 2022.

We signed the Charter of Digital Networking back in 2014. With our involvement in its sponsoring association, we are also underscoring our commitment to responsibility in shaping the digital society.

We have longstanding partnerships with many organizations, associations, and initiatives with whom we work as part of our social commitment.

During the reporting year, we supported Helpline Ukraine, the free phone hotline for refugees from Ukraine, by donating line capacity for additional voice traffic. The project was supported by Nummer gegen Kummer e.V., a youth counseling line and long-standing partner of ours, in cooperation with the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ).

Other partnerships in which we are involved include the following:

In addition to urging society to stand up against online hate speech, our No Hate Speech campaign focuses strongly on providing support for those victimized by hate speech. We have entered into additional partnerships to this end. And we present additional partners in our Topic special.

We promote various initiatives and programs aimed at protecting children and young people in cyberspace. For example, we are a member of the association fragFINN, which provides a safe online surfing environment for children between the ages of six and twelve. The search engine on fragFINN.de and its pertinent browser app img turn up only websites that are suitable for children and have been reviewed by media educators. We also support JusProg e.V., a non-profit association that works to improve protection for children and young people online. Its youth-protection program JusProg, which is available for download and use free of charge, filters out age-inappropriate online content.