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Nominet Every child counts: the IWF’s latest technology breakthrough

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The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) is a not-for-profit organisation, backed by the global internet industry. It helps victims of child sexual abuse worldwide by identifying and removing online images and videos of their abuse. Through its Hotline and Reporting Portals, it provides 2.6 billion people with a safe place to report suspected illegal pictures and videos.

However, the IWF can’t achieve this without the resources to develop cutting-edge services and technology. Nominet’s funding enables the IWF to take on ambitious projects, to invest in its technology team, and build capacity to deliver transformative change to the organisation and its mission to protect children and build a safer internet.

We’re proud to announce the latest feature in its technology stack, made possible by our funding.

The new multichild feature allows the IWF to now count all the victims seen in sexual abuse images, ensuring that every child is recognised in the data, where previously there would have been no record.

Multichild is integrated into the IWF’s Intelligrade system, a tool that enables the charity to accurately grade and categorise the severity of individual child sexual abuse images, while automatically generating unique hashes (digital fingerprints).

In Intelligrade, these hashes are enriched with contextual metadata, such as the age of the child in the image and the severity of the abuse seen. Previously, if an image featured more than one child, only information about the youngest child was able to be recorded.

This incredible development has meant that every child in an image can now be represented in the data. And information – such as sex, gender and skin tone – can be recorded accordingly.

So far this year, more than 60,000 additional children who would have previously been ‘invisible’ have been incorporated into a dataset that provides vital intelligence to the tech industry, policy makers and police for the purpose of protecting children around the world.

We spoke with the IWF’s CTO, Dan Sexton, to find out more about this technology and how it will improve the lives of victims – as well as the IWF analysts – and how it this has been made possible through Nominet’s funding.


This advancement to IWF’s Intelligrade system follows another Nominet-funded innovation – clustering technology. This development enables the system to link similar images together, helping analysts assess multiple child sexual abuse images 112% faster. Now, with the introduction of the multichild feature, the IWF is even better equipped to combat the sharing of child sexual abuse images.

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