The Safer Internet day is promoted by the Safer Internet Awareness Campaign. It results from the work of two projects funded from the EU's Safer Internet programme: SafeBorders and Safety, Awareness, Facts and Tools (SAFT). The programme, which has been running since 1999 also seeks to ensure a safe environment for other on-line situations such as for content delivered via broadband and mobile communications, online games, peer-to-peer file transfer, and all forms of real-time communications such as chat rooms and instant messages.
Le plan d'action, lancé en 1999, vise aussi à garantir un environnement sûr pour d'autres situations de communication en ligne, telles que la fourniture de contenu via une connexion à large bande ou dans le cadre de communications mobiles, les jeux en ligne, le transfert de fichiers de poste à poste et toutes les formes de communications en temps réel comme les sites de correspondance en ligne et les messages instantanés.