Le plan d'action, lancé en 1999, vise aussi à garantir un environnement sûr pour d'autres situations de communication en ligne, telles que la fourniture de contenu via une connexion à large bande ou dans le cadre de communications mobiles, les jeux en ligne, le transfert de fichiers de poste à poste et toutes les formes de communications en temps réel comme les sites de correspondance en ligne et les messages instantanés.
The Safer Internet day is promoted by the Safer Internet Awareness Campaign. It results from the work of two projects funded from the EU's Safer Internet programme: SafeBorders and Safety, Awareness, Facts and Tools (SAFT). The programme, which has been running since 1999 also seeks to ensure a safe environment for other on-line situations such as for content delivered via broadband and mobile communications, online games, peer-to-peer file transfer, and all forms of real-time communications such as chat rooms and instant messages.