ZEEKO PRESS RELEASES

November 2018

Dublin, November 2018. Ahead of Seasonal Sale Events Research by Zeeko Indicates 1 in 3 Boys aged 8 are Playing Over 18 Online Games

Ahead of upcoming seasonal sale events, such as Black Friday, Cyber Monday and the Christmas sales, research findings announced today by Zeeko (www.zeeko.ie), indicate that 1 in 3 boys aged 8 are playing over 18 games online.

October 2018

Dublin, 16 of October 2018. The Irish Edtech start-up, today announced the launch of a new and interactive Peer-to-Peer educational platform to transform the way internet safety is taught to primary school children in Ireland.

Zeeko, headquartered at NovaUCD, the Centre for New Ventures and Entrepreneurs at University College Dublin (UCD), has already taught internet safety to over 100,000 children in over 800 schools across Ireland through its traditional presenter seminars model.

September 2018

Dublin, September 2018. Educating our children on the finer points of being safe online has to be one of the key challenges of our times.

Educating our Children on the finer points of being Safe Online has to be one of the key challenges of our times. But while few would disagree on the urgency of this issue, there are surprisingly few organisations or companies providing appropriate Education materials and content to help children become digitally literate.

July 2018

Dublin, July 2018. Zeeko, headquartered at NovaUCD, welcomes the Government Action Plan on Online Safety as launched by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar.

The Action Plan is centred on five goals to ensure Public Safety Online (i) for all (ii) better supports for citizens (iii) stronger protections for people (iv) influencing national and EU policy (iv) building Government’s understanding of online safety issues. The implementation of the plan is driven by a whole government approach.

April 2018

Dublin, 24th April. Zeeko, headquartered at NovaUCD, announced the findings of its digital trend report Children’s Online Behaviour in Ireland 2016-18.

The data used in this survey was collected from May 2016 to February 2018 in primary and secondary schools throughout Ireland. In this report Zeeko provides a comprehensive analysis of children’s online behaviour over a 16 month time frame, namely an entire school year (2016/2017) and one semester (2017/18). Zeeko has surveyed 244 schools (173 primary, 71 secondary), and a total of 35,867 children(18,131 males and 17,736 females). This is the one of the most extensive studies on children’s digital behaviour in Ireland to date.

January 2018

Dublin, 10th January 2018. A risky form of online behaviour called sexting i.e. the act of exchanging sexually explicit content online in the form of images, videos and text has become a prominent feature of Irish adolescents’ communication.

Zeeko, headquartered at NovaUCD, announced the results of its Secondary School Digital Trend Report, a study aimed at better understanding the current digital trends among teenagers in Ireland. The study surveyed 3,231 secondary school pupils, 1,408 females and 1,823 males from 30 schools.

November 2017

Dublin, 7th November 2017. Zeeko, an Irish EdTech start-up, today announced that it has secured just over €100,000 in funding through the Horizon 2020 SME Innovation Associate Programme

The company is using the funding to launch a new research project, initially involving school children in Ireland, to evaluate the side effects of virtual reality (VR) technology on children’s health.

May 2017

Dublin, 17th May 2017. Today the World Health Organisation has suggested that a dramatic rise in the use of computers and social media is wreaking havoc on the health of young people.

Zeeko, an Irish EdTech start-up which works with parents to teach their children to stay safe online, believes that education is key to internet safety.

January 2017

Dublin, July 2018. Zeeko, headquartered at NovaUCD, welcomes the Government Action Plan on Online Safety as launched by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar.

The Action Plan is centred on five goals to ensure Public Safety Online (i) for all (ii) better supports for citizens (iii) stronger protections for people (iv) influencing national and EU policy (iv) building Government’s understanding of online safety issues. The implementation of the plan is driven by a whole government approach.

January 2016

Dublin, January 2016. Zeeko, an Irish Start Up based at Nova UCD which works to educate parents and teachers to teach their children to stay safe online, today, Friday, 8th January 2016 announced the successful completion of the crowdfunding campaign it launched earlier this week.

The funds raised will enable Zeeko to publish the Zeeko Internet Safety Guide and put a digital copy into every Primary School in Ireland.