Aimed at practitioners whose work involves protecting children from online sexual abuse and exploitation, the four-week programme, funded by Swansea University’s End Violence Against Children unit, looks at how groomers and children communicate online.
Dragon-S, is an applied research project, designed to tackle two challenges faced by prevention and prosecution agencies working to prevent online grooming, which have been identified by researchers. There are:
A lack of understanding of how groomers communicate online.
Agencies being overwhelmed by the volume and communicative sophistication of groomers.
Using a combination of international expertise in linguistics and artificial intelligence, End Violence Against Children says the project uses two interrelated, research-based digital tools including an online grooming detector called DRAGON-Spotter and an online grooming prevention tool called DRAGON-Shield.
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