The Family Online Safety Institute Welcomes Saturn to Membership
July 2, 2024
The Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) has announced that Saturn will become its newest member company. Saturn is the first calendar app built specifically to support the modern high school experience, helping students navigate their time with a centralized calendar view to support their academic, extracurricular, and social lives. FOSI is a non-profit that works to make the online world safer for kids and their families.
Washington, D.C., July 2, 2024 – Today, the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) announces that Saturn will become its newest member company. Saturn is the first calendar app built specifically to support the modern high school experience. Saturn is a comprehensive scheduling tool that helps students navigate their time with a centralized calendar view designed to support the complexities of academic schedules, extracurricular activities, and social lives.
“We are thrilled to have Saturn join the FOSI community,” said Stephen Balkam, FOSI CEO. “With their focus on student safety and productivity, Saturn will significantly contribute to our ongoing efforts to enhance online safety and digital citizenship for children and their families.”
Saturn prides itself on being a utility that gives users time back in their day by alleviating the stresses of time management. With Saturn, high schoolers can spend less time scrolling and more time doing the things they love with the people they care most about.
Saturn is designed to prioritize student safety throughout the product. The app employs multi-layered verification processes aimed to connect users to their specific school community on Saturn. Saturn also maintains Community Guidelines, and monitors content and user reports on the app to facilitate content that upholds a vibrant, informative, and safe environment for all users. When Saturn or its users identify inappropriate content, Saturn may report it to the relevant school or to Law Enforcement.
“As we continue our work in online safety, we’re thrilled to announce our partnership with FOSI and its members, and look forward to learning from their best-in-class research, efforts and practices,” said Dylan Diamond, co-founder & CEO of Saturn. “Our goal is to empower young people by giving them the tools to be the most productive version of themselves while promoting online civility from the get-go. FOSI’s excellent track record, expertise, and member base in this field is unique and will be a differentiator for Saturn as we continue to advance this mission.”
About FOSI
The Family Online Safety Institute is an international, non-profit organization that works to make the online world safer for kids and their families. FOSI convenes leaders in industry, government and the non-profit sectors to collaborate and innovate new solutions and policies in the field of online safety. Through research, resources, events and special projects, FOSI promotes a culture of responsibility online and encourages a sense of digital citizenship for all. FOSI's membership includes many of the leading Internet and telecommunications companies around the world.
About Saturn
Saturn is the first calendar built for Gen Z, starting in high school. The app has been designed from the ground up to support all of the irregularities of high school schedules. It’s a powerful utility that makes calendaring fun and delightful, alleviating the stresses of time management and helping students become more productive and engaged members of their communities. This past school year, Saturn helped millions of students at nearly 20,000 U.S. high schools.
