As part of its Safer Internet Day campaign, Google partnered with a local female sand artist to emphasize everyone’s role in creating a safe online environment.
Google tapped Monica Regalario-Cacatian, a Filipina artist who uses sand as an art medium to spread positive messages online. She first rose to prominence on TV5’s Talentadong Pinoy talent competition. Aside from inspiring content, she uses her art to promote advocacies such as raising awareness for gender equality, and victims of sexual violence, child abuse, and displacement, to name a few.
In collaboration with Google, Monica created a 60-second sand art content on YouTube Shorts focused on simple tips that netizens can follow to be safer on the internet.
To also show the use of responsible AI, Google and Monica used Bard (now called Gemini), Google’s generative AI, to develop the script of the YouTube Shorts content.
“Google is committed to helping people be safer online. We believe that by collaborating with Filipina artists like Monica, we can support local creatives and at the same time, champion internet safety,” said Mervin Wenke, Head of Communications and Public Affairs of Google in the Philippines.
“Sand art can be a creative and effective medium for promoting advocacies like internet safety. It offers a unique and entertaining way to tell stories that can engage audiences of all ages online,” said Monica Regalario-Cacatian.
Previously, Google partnered with Ben&Ben for a catchy song and with a youth group for spoken word poetry on YouTube towards the same cause.