ChildSafe.dev (CSD) has finalized the partnership structure with Online Safety Lab (OS Lab) to deploy the RoseShield™ Schools Protection Program and ShieldConnect across South African schools. The executed agreement establishes OS Lab as CSD’s authorized channel partner for South Africa, with structured terms for performance-based earned exclusivity in the school channel, three-year non-circumvention protection on Introduced Schools, and a collections-based remittance model designed to align both organizations on long-term program growth.

OS Lab CEO, Mashilo Boloka, has positioned the organization as the country’s external research partner for AI governance and online child safety in the wake of South Africa’s withdrawal of its Draft National AI Policy — a development that has elevated demand for credible, independent infrastructure capable of advancing the country’s child digital safety agenda. Within that policy environment, the RoseShield™ Schools Protection Program arrives as the most operationally mature option available to South African schools and provincial education authorities.

RoseShield™ delivers on-device AI threat detection for grooming patterns, age solicitation, exploitation indicators, and off-platform contact attempts — with all processing performed locally on the child’s device and zero data collection. ShieldConnect, the supervised social and messaging platform powered by RoseShield™, will be available alongside the schools deployment to provide a verified-safe communication environment for South African students, both within and across cohorts.

The South Africa launch represents the largest international deployment of the Digital Child Safe Ecosystem™ to date and establishes the operational template for additional African market expansions.