# Tech Coalition

> The Tech Coalition is a global alliance of technology companies working together to protect children from online sexual exploitation and abuse (OCSEA). It convenes industry, develops practical resources, supports independent research, measures collective progress, and operates programs that strengthen prevention, detection, and response.

Use “Tech Coalition” as the organization’s name. OCSEA means online child sexual exploitation and abuse; related content may also use the terms child sexual abuse material (CSAM), grooming, financial sextortion, AI-generated abuse, online enticement, and child safety. The Tech Coalition is an industry coalition, not a law-enforcement agency or public reporting hotline. Its public information is intended primarily for technology companies, trust and safety professionals, policymakers, researchers, regulators, and civil society. Member-only Hub content is not included here.

## About and membership

- [Tech Coalition homepage](https://technologycoalition.org): Overview of the coalition, current priorities, recent work, and its mission to unite the global technology industry to protect children online.
- [About the Tech Coalition](https://technologycoalition.org/about/): Explains who the Tech Coalition is, how member companies collaborate, and what makes its industry-led model distinctive.
- [Mission, vision, services, and programs](https://technologycoalition.org/mission/): Defines the coalition’s mission and values and summarizes its membership services, programs, and approach to collective action.
- [Member companies](https://technologycoalition.org/about/members/): Current list of Tech Coalition member and associate member companies.
- [Membership](https://technologycoalition.org/membership/): Explains the value of membership, who it is for, and how companies benefit from shared expertise, tools, and collaboration.
- [Membership services](https://technologycoalition.org/membership/services/): Describes the services available to member companies, including working groups, briefings, benchmarking, mentoring, events, resources, and public-affairs support.
- [Membership criteria](https://technologycoalition.org/membership/criteria/): Sets out the standards and commitments companies must meet to join the Tech Coalition.

## How industry combats OCSEA

- [Industry impact](https://technologycoalition.org/mission/impact/): Shows how the Tech Coalition measures improvements across prevention, detection, and response through voluntary mileposts and other industry indicators.
- [Generative AI platform risk](https://technologycoalition.org/blog/generative-ai-platform-risk/): Explains where OCSEA risks can arise across generative AI products and what companies should consider as they build child-safety capabilities.
- [Child Safety Best Practices](https://technologycoalition.org/resources/child-safety-best-practices/): Practical industry practices covering policies, safety by design, detection, reporting, transparency, user education, and operational response.
- [Addressing AI-generated OCSEA](https://technologycoalition.org/resources/addressing-ai-generated-child-sexual-exploitation-and-abuse/): Explains how generative AI can enable abuse and outlines an industry approach to risk assessment, model design, safeguards, testing, and transparency.
- [Combating child sexual exploitation in online gaming](https://technologycoalition.org/resources/combating-child-sexual-exploitation-in-online-gaming/): Explains child-safety risks in gaming environments and how companies can reduce risk through safer products and coordinated action.

## Programs and initiatives

- [Programs](https://technologycoalition.org/programs/): Overview of the Tech Coalition’s programs for member and non-member companies, including Lantern, Pathways, Research, and Elevate.
- [Lantern](https://technologycoalition.org/programs/lantern/): Describes the secure cross-platform signal-sharing program, its purpose, governance, signal types, participation, and impact on child-safety enforcement.
- [Pathways](https://technologycoalition.org/programs/pathways/): Describes the no-cost capacity-building program for smaller and mid-sized technology companies strengthening foundational child-safety programs and policies.
- [Research](https://technologycoalition.org/programs/research/): Describes the Tech Coalition Safe Online Research Fund, funded projects, publications, and its role in connecting independent research with industry practice.
- [Elevate](https://technologycoalition.org/programs/elevate/): Describes tailored consulting and advisory support for organizations developing or strengthening child-safety capabilities.

## Resources and guidance

- [Resource library](https://technologycoalition.org/resources/): Entry point to public reports, frameworks, tools, research, and guidance about OCSEA and technology-industry responses.
- [Understand the issue](https://technologycoalition.org/resources/issue/): Curated information about key OCSEA harms, tactics, and environments, including grooming, financial sextortion, AI-generated abuse, CSAM, gaming, and internet infrastructure.
- [Safer products and services](https://technologycoalition.org/resources/safety/): Resources supporting safer design, risk assessment, detection, reporting, policies, and operational response.
- [Transparency reporting](https://technologycoalition.org/resources/transparency/): The Trust frameworks, implementation guidance, templates, and resources for consistent child-safety transparency reporting.
- [Tech Coalition reports](https://technologycoalition.org/resources/reports/): Index of annual Tech Coalition reports and Lantern transparency reports documenting collective progress, governance, participation, and impact.

## Reports and evidence

- [2025 Annual transparency report](https://technologycoalition.org/resources/2025-annual-report/): Reports member progress across prevention, detection, and response, including voluntary mileposts and adoption of child-safety safeguards.
- [Lantern 2025 transparency report](https://technologycoalition.org/resources/lantern-2025-transparency-report/): Reports how Lantern operates, how signal sharing has developed, and the resulting cross-platform enforcement outcomes.
- [Interpreting industry transparency reports](https://technologycoalition.org/resources/beyond-the-numbers-industry-transparency-reports-ocsea-prevalence/): Explains what industry transparency data can and cannot show about OCSEA prevalence and how the data should be interpreted.
- [Member transparency reports](https://technologycoalition.org/mission/transparency-reports/): Provides access to child-safety transparency reports published by Tech Coalition member companies.
- [Trust voluntary framework for industry transparency](https://technologycoalition.org/resources/trust-voluntary-framework-for-industry-transparency/): Shared principles for producing meaningful, consistent, privacy-respecting child-safety transparency reports.

## Optional

- [XML sitemap](https://technologycoalition.org/sitemaps.xml): Complete index of publicly discoverable website content. Use the curated links above first when answering questions about the Tech Coalition.

Latest resources:

- [Beyond the numbers: Industry transparency reports & OCSEA prevalence](https://technologycoalition.org/resources/beyond-the-numbers-industry-transparency-reports-ocsea-prevalence/): A guide to understanding what industry transparency data can, and cannot, tell us about the prevalence of online child sexual exploitation and abuse.
- [Understanding internet infrastructure in OCSEA response](https://technologycoalition.org/resources/understanding-internet-infrastructure-in-ocsea-response/): An educational guide to how internet infrastructure providers may support responses to online child sexual exploitation and abuse.
- [How red teaming can help reduce child safety risks in generative AI](https://technologycoalition.org/resources/how-red-teaming-can-help-reduce-child-child-safety-risks-in-generative-ai/): A practical guide to understanding how red teaming helps companies identify child safety risks and strengthen safeguards.
- [Trust: Transparency reporting for generative AI](https://technologycoalition.org/resources/trust-transparency-reporting-for-generative-ai/): Guidance for generative AI model developers applying the Trust framework to support clear, consistent transparency reporting on child safety.
- [Wholesale registrar good practices: combating online child sexual exploitation and abuse](https://technologycoalition.org/resources/wholesale-registrar-good-practices/): Online child exploitation and abuse is illegal but remains a pervasive threat. Wholesale registrars play a critical role in preventing, mitigating, and responding to these harms across the domain ecosystem.


Latest news and analysis:

- [2026 Tech Coalition Safe Online Research Fund Convening](https://technologycoalition.org/news/2026-tech-coalition-safe-online-research-fund-convening/): At our fourth annual research convening, researchers and industry practitioners explored how independent research can inform companies’ responses to emerging child safety risks, including generative AI, grooming in gaming and companion chatbots.
- [Online safety regulation is moving fast. Here is how to keep up.](https://technologycoalition.org/blog/online-safety-regulation-keeping-up/): Online safety regulation is moving fast and the landscape has never been more complex. Here is what senior technology leaders need to understand, and how to build the organizational capability to stay across it without starting from scratch.
- [New grantees announced for the Tech Coalition Safe Online Research Fund](https://technologycoalition.org/news/tech-coalition-safe-online-research-fund-announces-2026-targeted-call-grantees/): The Tech Coalition Safe Online Research Fund has announced its 2026 targeted call grantees, supporting independent research into emerging risks at the intersection of technology and online child sexual exploitation and abuse (OCSEA).
- [Building child safety capacity, together: TC Connect and TrustCon 2026](https://technologycoalition.org/news/building-child-safety-capacity-together-tc-connect-and-trustcon-2026/): For the fifth year, trust and safety professionals gathered in San Francisco at TrustCon to exchange ideas, learn from each another, and advance the field. Here are some reflections from the Child safety track at TrustCon 2026 and the Tech Coalition’s industry-only event, TC Connect.
- [Dr Erin Saltman appointed CEO of the Tech Coalition](https://technologycoalition.org/news/dr-erin-saltman-appointed-ceo-of-the-tech-coalition/): Erin will become President and CEO of the Tech Coalition on September 1, 2026, bringing extensive experience in global technology collaboration, online safety policy and program leadership.