ChildSafe.dev signed a strategic partnership with Online Safety Foundation Uganda (OSFU), bringing RoseShield™ on-device child safety technology to schools in Kampala for the first time. The partnership launches with a structured pilot at Sayidina Abubakar Secondary School — with OSFU's Dr. Sulaiman Kawooya, Director of E-Safety, leading ground-level implementation alongside ChildSafe.dev's technology team.

The pilot arrives at a critical moment for Uganda's capital. Uganda's 2024 National Census found that children under 18 make up 50% of the country's 45.9 million people. Kampala carries the highest secondary school enrollment rate in the country at 52%, according to UNICEF — and as internet access expands rapidly across Kampala's school network, children's exposure to online grooming, exploitation, and harmful content is growing without corresponding protection infrastructure in place.

RoseShield™ is built for exactly this environment. Its on-device AI architecture requires no consistent cloud connectivity, making it deployable in schools with variable internet infrastructure. All threat detection — grooming patterns, age solicitation, explicit content, off-platform contact requests — processes locally on the device, with zero data collection. The pilot will establish the deployment model and MEL framework for scaling across Kampala's broader school network, with national deployment a stated objective of the partnership.

Uganda's approximately 15 million school-age children represent one of the most significant addressable markets for child digital safety technology on the African continent. The OSFU partnership positions ChildSafe.dev as the first on-device child safety platform with an operational institutional footprint in East Africa — and establishes the evidence base for replication across the region. ChildSafe.dev's strategic business development and partnership layer for African deployment remains an important part of its overall strategy.