Athens, Greece - Recent Experts in Greece have called for enhancing regulation to prevent adolescent internet addiction, which is becoming increasingly common among younger age groups in the country. Artemis Tsitsika, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Athens University and president of the Greek Society of Adolescent Medicine, has dedicated many years to researching and treating adolescent mental health. She stated that the issue of internet addiction has grown increasingly serious over the past few years. In January, the Social Action and Innovation Center in Greece issued a report titled "Stances and Behaviors of Children in Online Environments," revealing that the internet penetration rate among children aged 9 to 12 in Greece is nearly 100 percent. The center also found that 22.8 percent of the children surveyed had encountered inappropriate content online, while one-third were unaware of how to block or report such content. However, experts have also emphasized the importance of providing children with access to the internet in the digital era. To ensure a safe online environment and prevent internet addiction among adolescents, the Greek government has recently announced a plan to launch an application called "Kids Wallet," which helps control young people's social media use, provides digital age verification, offers browsing controls, and allows for greater parental oversight. A Greek official has revealed that the government aims to have the application pre-installed on smartphones sold in Greece by the end of 2025. Shotlist: Athens, Greece - Recent: 1. Traffic, entrance to hospital; 2. Sign of Children's Hospital of Athens; 3. People entering hospital; 4. Artemis Tsitsika, assistant professor of pediatrics and president of Greek Society of Adolescent Medicine, at work; 5. SOUNDBITE (English) Artemis Tsitsika, President, Greek Society of Adolescent Medicine (partially overlaid with shot 6): "Well, the age of addictions in general are focused mainly on middle adolescents. But as we see, as the phenomenon really develops, even younger ages come up with internet addiction. Primary school and other ages that we really have not seen in the previous years."; [SHOT OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE] 6. Tsitsika at work; [SHOT OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE] 7. Various of report; 8. SOUNDBITE (English) Elli Kaplani, senior researcher, Social Action and Innovation Center: "Another concerning finding was that many children reported to share different various personal information on their social media or gaming profiles and this information varied and may include a photo with their face, their name or surname, their school or their phone number, and this is some information that may put them at risk or at the same facilitate grooming."; 9. Reporter talking with Antonis Klapsis, vice president of Social Action and Innovation Center; 10. SOUNDBITE (English) Antonis Klapsis, Vice President, Social Action and Innovation Center (partially overlaid with shot 11): "(It's) out of the question to ban the use of the internet for minors, for children, I think it goes without saying that in this digital era that we are living, it is imperative that children do have some access to the internet. But the thing here is that we need to find some sort of regulation when it comes to children using the internet."; [SHOT OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE] 11. Report; [SHOT OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE] FILE: Athens, Greece - May 2019 12. Various of Greek parliament building; Greek national flag. [Restriction - No access Chinese mainland]