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February 09, 2007

Spain-Italy: Correct use of the Internet

Hi everybody!

Here we are again! This is our last post about our project. We have finished the research about the correct use of the Internet. A group of ten years old students prepared the pool helped by their teacher. After the correction of the pool they studied the results and tried to obtain some conclusions.
Finally they have written this "10 rules for the correct use of the net".
We think this experience has been very interesting and the students too. They are conscience of the importance of the correct use of the Internet.
Thank you for the organization of this Blogathon!
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February 08, 2007

Spain-Italy: Correct use of the Internet

Here we have the results of the poll. 48 students of 10 years old did it. Tomorrow we´ll publish the conclusions of the research. We´ll try to carry out 10 ideas for the correct use of the Internet.

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February 07, 2007

Latvia - Russia: "Why we need netiquette?"

Members: Russia, МОУ Гимназия 80, Chelyabinsk and Latvia, Penkule primary shool, Dobele region
Overview Netiquette, or Net etiquette, has become an essential part of communicating over the Internet. All to often people forget that they are, in fact, communicating with other people and not just some remote computer. A standardized set of rules--known as netiquette--has been developed to aid in human-to-human communication using simple text via a computer. Additionally, with the clever use of text characters, a general set of emotion-expressing icons and acronyms has been developed to further aid online communication.
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February 06, 2007

Belgium - Austria

Das ist eine Zusammenarbeit der österreichischen Schule Gwiku Haizingergasse und der Europäischen Schule Brüssel III.
Am Anfang arbeitete jede Schule in Gruppen zusammen, um die Inhalte zu konkretisieren. Es entstanden dabei sehr interessante Fragen, wie z.B.
Wie können Bilder manipuliert werden? Warum werden Bilder manipuliert? Wie sieht die Rechtslage aus?
Welche Bilder dürfen manipuliert werden? Und viele weitere Fragen. Diese Informationen wurden mit Hilfe der moodle- Plattform, welche in der Wiener Schule installiert ist, ausgetauscht. Danach gestalteten die Schüler jeweils eine eigene PowerPointPräsentation. Aus den so entstandenen Ergebnisse, wurde eine eigene gemeinsame Präsentation erstellt.
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Cyberbullying: An Emerging Threat to the "Always On" Generation

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The readers of this blog might be interested in learning about two free, non-profit, educational resources that may help those who are trying to understand and deal with the issues of bullying and cyberbullying. As I am a parent and teacher myself, I created these resources with children, parents and teachers in mind.

www.bullying.org is a multiple award-winning Web site that was created to help people address the issues of bullying within a safe, positive international community. www.bullying.org is a supportive community where people can learn that they are NOT alone in being bullied and teased, that being bullied and teased is NOT their fault and that they CAN do something positive about it. People can contribute their personal stories, poems, images, oral stories (audio files), music and videos.

We have a team of reviewers who ensure that only first names may be used on the Web site and that no e-mail addresses or contact information may be shared or displayed on the Web site. Our reviewers review the content to ensure that original submissions and replies contribute in a helpful way to supporting the Web site's goals; that "You are NOT alone. (Being bullied is NOT your fault and that there are many positive things that you can do about it."

www.bullying.org also has a "Helpful Resources" section that features a huge listing of articles, books, legislation and policies, research and multimedia resources. Many people have identified this section as being the largest collection of bullying-related online resources in the world. www.bullying.org also has the world's first and largest online moderated support groups for adults and youth. The Web site receives nearly one million visitors and contributors from around the world each month and is often listed as the number one “bullying” referenced Web site in the world by www.google.com and many other Internet search engines. This high ranking has been accomplished primarily by word-of-mouth among parents, teachers and young people.

www.bullying.org has been chosen for the ChildNet International Award which goes to projects that make the Internet a better place for youth, as well as being a finalist in the Stockholm Challenge Award which has been called the Nobel Prize of the IT (Information Technology) world. www.bullying.org has been featured by media around the world.

As www.bullying.org quickly became an international portal of information about bullying, I realized that a new behaviour was emerging online. I defined it in the following way, "Cyberbullying involves the use of information and communication technologies such as e-mail, cell phone and pager text messages, instant messaging, defamatory personal Web sites, and defamatory online personal polling Web sites, to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behaviour by an individual or group, that is intended to harm others."

As cyberbullying was a new behaviour, I decided to create a new Web site to address it.

www.cyberbullying.org was the world's first Web site specifically dedicated to the emerging issue of cyberbullying. You may be interested to learn that we have been repeatedly cited as the first to coin and define this term.

If you and your audience would like more information about the issue of cyberbullying, what it is, how it can be prevented, and what can be done if someone has been cyberbullied, I would invite you and them to visit www.cyberbullying.org.

Bullying.org is the creator and facilitator of the annual international "Bullying Awareness Week" which now takes place in November each year. In 2006, it will be held from November 19th to the 24th.

We have done presentations about the issues of bullying and cyberbullying around the world.

If you would like more information about the issue of cyberbullying, please visit
http://www.cyberbullying.ca/pdf/Cyberbullying_Information.pdf

You will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer in order to open and download this information.

Please feel free to share this with others, as you may deem appropriate.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you should have any questions or need further information.

Most sincerely,

Bill Belsey

President,
Bullying.org (non-profit)

e-mail: help@bullying.org

www.bullying.org
"Where You Are NOT Alone!"

and

www.cyberbullying.org
"Always On? Always Aware!"
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Testing tools for filtering and parental control

Safer Internet Day! We offically presented the results of the filtering study performed in till December 2006 (www.sip-bench.eu). We found that the tools are really needed considering some of the awful things that are on the Internet these days, that indeed cross the border of human decency. And whilst a tool may not be the golden bullet yet, it is definitely an important complement to the guidance by parents and other educators. Today we also start the campaign to again find 100 to 200 testers who want to test one of the 30 Internet content filtering tools, across European borders. ... People who want to test 1, 2 or 3 tools for free, and provide online feedback on how easy or difficult it is to install and configure the tools. Last year the study was a huge success and the results are on the website www.sip-bench.eu. Let's hope that also this year many parents and teachers find their way to the website and test-drive the tools. Johan.

COLOURS IN INTERNET

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Presentation school in Pszczew

International PARTNER

Escola Secundária de Tomás Cabreira, Portugalia
1. Wybralismy wspólnie temat naszego projektu (power of image)
2. Uzgodniliśmy sposób w jaki będziemy realizować nasz projekt i jak będziemy się komunikować
3. Podzieliśmy naszych uczniów na grupy pracujące nad innymi tematami
4. Wybralismy 4 tematy dotyczące fotografi - ryzyko umieszczania pełnych zdjęć w internecie (inne osoby mogą je przekształcic ze szkoda dla osoby na zdjęciu) - jakie kolory wpływają na uzytkowników Internetu w pozytywny sposób, a jakie w negatywny (jakie obrazy sprawiaja, że nastolatki czują sie bardziej bezpiecznie) - jakie jest ryzyko umieszczanie zbyt śmiałych zdjęć na portalach młodzieżowych (zagrożenie pedofilami) - rzeczywistość wirtualna i jej wpływ na młodych ludzi
5. Stworzylismy prezentacje przedstawiające uczestników projektu
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Bebo.com - The Thinking Nation

Bebo launches workshop series in support of European Safer Internet Day

London – 06 January 2007: Bebo, the UK’s number one social networking site*, has today announced that it will conduct a series of Knowledge Transfer Workshops as an extension to European Safer Internet Day*.

Each workshop will bring together experts from organisations representing learning disabilities, anti-bullying and emotional support including; The National Consultative Committee on Racism and Interculturalism (NCCRI), Beatbullying and relevant law enforcement agencies in different parts of the UK and Republic of Ireland. The workshops aim to empower teachers and educationalists with knowledge and greater understanding about Social Networks and the internet.

“There is a true revolution of personal expression underway and Bebo is building a positive and inclusive online community. Social networks provide a unique platform for people to connect with others in new and innovative ways. Bebo is at the forefront of this phenomenon worldwide, but realises that in order for Social Networks to reach their potential there needs to be a greater understanding amongst the wider community,” stated Bebo’s Head of Corporate & Social Responsibilty, Dr Rachel O’Connell.

“European Safer Internet Day is focused on promoting safer use of the internet by drawing users' attention to the skills required to use computers and the internet as safely as possible. Bebo believes that by working closely with teachers and educationalists we can bridge a very real knowledge gap and empower them, enabling them to further support young people to use the internet safely whilst promoting positive regard, tolerance and inclusion”.

Initial workshops will be piloted in London followed by localities in Northern and Southern Ireland. They will then be rolled out to additional cities across the UK. The collective feedback from each workshop will form the basis of future training and it is Bebo’s intention to work with its stakeholders to produce take-away educational materials that can be distributed throughout schools and educational institutions in the UK and Ireland during 2007.

Today’s announcement builds on the introduction of Bebo’s anti-bullying measures and the ongoing augmentation of its safety features. Bebo is leading the safety field amongst Social Networking companies and is fully committed to building a safer online environment for its users. In addition to working in partnership with law enforcement Bebo is a member of the Home Office Internet Task Force and the DfES’s (Department for Education & Skills) Cyberbullying task force.

The danger of putting full body pictures on the net

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POLISH SCHOOL: ZESPÓŁ SZKÓŁ GIMNAZJUM W PSZCZEWIE
Portugal School : Escola Secundária de Tomás Cabreir
1. Wybralismy wspólnie temat naszego projektu (power of image)
2. Uzgodniliśmy sposób w jaki będziemy realizować nasz projekt i jak będziemy się komunikować
3. Podzieliśmy naszych uczniów na grupy pracujące nad innymi tematami
4. Wybralismy 4 tematy dotyczące fotografi - ryzyko umieszczania pełnych zdjęć w internecie (inne osoby mogą je przekształcic ze szkoda dla osoby na zdjęciu) - jakie kolory wpływają na uzytkowników Internetu w pozytywny sposób, a jakie w negatywny (jakie obrazy sprawiaja, że nastolatki czują sie bardziej bezpiecznie) - jakie jest ryzyko umieszczanie zbyt śmiałych zdjęć na portalach młodzieżowych (zagrożenie pedofilami) - rzeczywistość wirtualna i jej wpływ na młodych ludzi
5. Stworzylismy prezentacje przedstawiające uczestników projektu

Safer day

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http://www.gimpos.neostrada.pl
I am inviting everyone cordially for the web page of the school

Projet réalisé

Nous y sommes quand même arrivé à le finaliser pour le blogathon ! Aujourd’hui, le 06 février 2007, avec voie haute je dit que le projet est fini. Un grand MERCI à l’équipe de travail « IT Task Force » du forum « 911 ordi », vous étiez formidables.

Nous sommes quand même arrivé(e)s à terminer ce dossier assez compliqué à bonne date. Le « bus du savoir et du partage du savoir » est arrivé à son premier « terminus ». Le voyage n’a duré que trois (3) semaines) et certains d’entrevous y ont pris goût à mes voyages éducatifs organisés, tel que « jfgagnon », qui m’a proposé de suite d’entamer une nouvelle aventure.

Le plaisir d'apprendre audessus les frontières géographiques !

CANADA: Addressing online hate with “a mission in critical thinking”

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Governments and educators are concerned about the growing use of the Internet to spread hate and propaganda. Most worrisome is its impact on young people – who are already growing up in a culture in which stereotypes and putdowns are a regular theme in their popular entertainment.

According to research by Canada’s leading media education organization, Media Awareness Network, 12% of Canadian students have encountered hateful Web sites and the majority of students (82%) have never talked to an adult about hate sites or racist content on the Net. Now more than ever, students need to be able to judge for themselves the legitimacy of the information and ideas they encounter. To do this, they need guidance in developing critical-thinking skills—and parents and teachers need education strategies to help young people learn to recognize online bias and propaganda. Allies and Aliens: A Mission in Critical Thinking

Since misinformation and subtle forms of racism may be difficult to recognize, the free educational game Allies and Aliens: A Mission in Critical Thinking is designed to help young people understand the basics of bias, stereotyping and propaganda techniques on the Internet. In Allies and Aliens players become agents on an intergalactic mission for earth. As players interact with alien characters and visit Web sites on the "Galactic Web", they come across varying degrees of prejudice and discrimination. These interactions help young people playing the game to understand how such messages can promote hate.

The game also helps kids understand the difference between fact and opinion, and the importance of authenticating online information, ultimately sharpening young peoples’ research and verification skills.

Allies and Aliens is accompanied by an extensive Teacher's Guide (PDF) which is also available free online.

USA: Crossing Borders - Acceptable Use Policies around the World

Living and learning internationally via the Internet certainly provides the means to learn from one another on educational topics that are vital to ensuring healthy learning environments. One of the most valuable facets of this type of global sharing is the ability for some areas of the world to preview the rise of new technologies, their associated issues, and subsequent solutions, as these technologies are adopted and spread throughout. For example, when it comes to the rapid advancement of cyber communication tools, there is a real need to learn from those who have already experienced the “latest and greatest”, and collaborate on ways to address the negative consequences that arise. Unfortunately growing safety and responsible use issues are sometimes overwhelming, and in our attempt to address each one comprehensively, basic foundational structuring of new policies is often overlooked. As schools in the U.S. deal with growing problems stemming from advancements in cyber technologies, there has been renewed interest among educators in updating the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) to cover newly emerging issues and to provide each student with a meaningful document to learn from.

What is an AUP? It is a written agreement that outlines the terms and conditions of Internet use at school. It sets the rules of online behavior, privileges, and appropriate uses, and it covers the consequences or penalties when these terms are violated. Students, parents, and teachers usually sign it—and all should know that it will be kept on file and used as a legal and binding document (in the U.S). However, it should be used as more than a legal document to keep students in line online. It should be used as the very basis for teaching safety and responsible use.

i-SAFE has always been a proponent of creating meaningful AUPs for schools, and we are often asked to provide guidance on how to implement these policies. Beyond the basics of what participants are not allowed to do, the AUP should cover consequences for actions and issues. We recommend the development of a school action team to handle AUP violations or online issues. This team can consist of administrators, teachers, school resource officers, counselors, technology techs, etc. The goal of the team is to handle issues that come up and administer discipline. The need for a team approach is very handy when dealing with certain common issues such as cyber harassment for which there is never one specific answer but rather responses that are based on each situation.

Cyber harassment is just one of the fast growing issues that are plaguing our schools. Unfortunately many schools are realizing their AUPs do not cover such transgressions. More often than not, cyber harassment that begins off school grounds becomes a school issue as the school climate and safety/well being of those at school are adversely affected.

A solid AUP can make a world of difference in ensuring responsible cyber citizens in the school environment. i-SAFE has challenged U.S. schools and districts to examine their Acceptable Use Policies and work to make them more meaningful. We are also eager to learn from the experiences of others in the global cyber community. What role does the AUP play in your schools and how is content created, revised, and or updated? What are the newly emerging technologies targeted at youth that will soon reach us and will need to be addressed in these policies in the near future?

Please visit www.isafe.org to view the work of i-SAFE's Internet Safety Education and Outreach program, or contact terids@isafe.org regarding i-SAFE collaboration in your nation.

Germany: It’s about safety & security.

This day shows impressively what the nature of the internet is like. The whole wide world one mouse click away. This posting is embedded in news from Greece, Thailand, Taiwan, Lithuania... and many more. The world wide and open character leads to one fact: the net offers all the good things but all the bad things, too. This is why we at AOL put big efforts in internet security.

In 2005 we founded the “AOL Sicherheitsrat” here in Germany. This safety & security council is an autonomous advisory board set up to improve our work on safety & security issues and then share the findings. By this we are a lighthouse in terms of internet safety & security. On Dec 18th 2006 the council made it’s first public report. The board was working on ideas for a safer internet for children, protection against accusable content and matters injuring the human dignity. It also discussed copyright issues, privacy and data protection to name a few.
You can download the whole report (in German) here.

With AOL we are now combining our forces to offer great content and services. But as I said: being the lighthouse in terms of internet safety & security is our mission and we are on a good way!
Last but not least we will give you this two links to an online quiz game, set up by Klicksafe, an initiative in which we are partners, and AOL:
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Safer Internet Day Panama

We want to thanks to the authorities of Insafe, especially to Mrs. Janice Richardson for the opportunity in participating in this Safer Internet Day.

In the same way that we join the oceans and the continents, this time, our Republic has the opportunity to check hands virtually with the entire planet, all , under the same concept, creating a better and safer Internet free of harmful contents that do not contribute to the education and to the knowledge.

Adolescents are capable of using the sophisticated research resources of the Internet, accessing everything from the United States Library of Congress's collection of magazines and newspapers to letters and archives from around the world.

Just as most teenagers are interested in chatting on the phone, many will want to be involved in chatting online. However, these areas are often the playgrounds of paedophiles, criminals, and unscrupulous marketers who may target your child.

We are concerned, we want to help for a better and safer Internet, but without parents help, teachers and government agencies, can be very difficult.

Panama has the political will, for which we understand that together we can, together we can do it


Lic. Martín H. Trabucco
Safer Net Panamá Foundation
President

Official Safer Day 2007

http://www.innovacion.gob.pa/safernet2007/gacetilla.php

Official Activities Program

http://www.innovacion.gob.pa/safernet2007/conferencia.php


WHAT PANAMA HAS TO SAY ABOUT........


1) The infantile pornography in Internet is a phenomenon that affects all of us.

Do you think that the paedophiles should be exhibited publicly?

2) Internet is a constant advance in technologies and provides to us the freedom of being able to interact without borders.

Do you think that the Internet providers should have major control and/or filters to prevent the contents of infantile pornography from gaining access publicly?

3) The prevention begins in each of our homes.

In addition to the actions that the National Government takes forward, Do you supervise your childrens when they are connected to Internet?

4) Actions that the government should take forward.

According to your opinion: what would be the actions that the government should take forward, to attend of the best way to this problem?

5) Principal risks that Internet presents for our children.

To your understanding: what are the principal risks that Internet presents for our children?


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Latvia : "Why we need netiquette?"

Members: Russia, МОУ Гимназия 80, Chelyabinsk and Latvia, Penkule primary shool, Dobele region
Overview Netiquette, or Net etiquette, has become an essential part of communicating over the Internet. All to often people forget that they are, in fact, communicating with other people and not just some remote computer. A standardized set of rules--known as netiquette--has been developed to aid in human-to-human communication using simple text via a computer. Additionally, with the clever use of text characters, a general set of emotion-expressing icons and acronyms has been developed to further aid online communication.
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Latvia: "Drošs internets"

Padomā šodien par savu drošību internetā!


Kāda gluži parasta meitene internetā saņem piedāvājumu fotografēties kailai... Cita jauniete pavisam vienkāršā un ikdienišķā forumā saņem svešinieka seksa piedāvājumu... Vēl kāds nezināms cilvēks cenšas uzzināt personīgu informāciju par kādu puisi, lai to izmantotu tikai sev zināmiem nolūkiem...

Protams, nav tā, ka internetā var atrast vien viltu un ļaunumu. Lielajā tīmeklī patiešām ir daudz laba – var sazināties ar draugiem jebkurā diennakts laikā, uzzināt ko vairāk par mīļāko rokgrupu, sportistu vai savu hobiju, vai arī apzināt mācību iespējas savā sapņu profesijā.Tāpat arī, šķērsojot virtuālās robežas, ir iespējams sazināties ar draugiem, domubiedriem visā pasaulē. Tomēr reizēm ir nepieciešams aizdomāties, kas slēpjas aiz krāšņajām frāzēm par izdevību iegūt jaunas paziņas un dzīvespriecīgi izkrāsotajām reklāmām, esi modrs un iemācies kā lietot internetu drošāk, lai tas sniegtu Jums tikai pozitīvas emocijas.

Varbūt tieši šī diena – 6. februāris, Vispasaules Drošāka interneta diena – ir īstā, lai par to aizdomātos. Vismaz pārējā pasaulē Tavi vienaudži šim mērķim veltīs kādu stundiņu... Ar ko sākt? Par ko un kā aizdomāties? Te nu ir divi ceļi. Pirmais no tiem – padomā par saviem paradumiem internetā: kādas mājas lapas Tu apmeklē, kādi tur ir populārākie temati, kā cilvēki tur sazinās – rupji vai pieklājīgi, kas ir Tavi virtuālie draugi, cik viņi ir atklāti pret Tevi. Vai varbūt vispirms pajautā sev KĀPĒC es apmeklēju tieši šo mājas lapu? Ko es gribu?

Otrs ceļš jau ir praktiska rakstura: aizej uz savām iecienītākajām mājas lapām un novērtē savu drošību tajā. Vai tur prasa personiska rakstura informāciju par Tevi un pamato, kādēļ tas tiek darīts, vai pārējie mājas lapas apmeklētāji ir labdabīgi, neizsaka draudus, neliek justies vainīgam, neizsaka nepiedienīgus piedāvājumus vai citādā veidā izturas slikti? Vai portāla administrācija ir rūpējusies par savu apmeklētāju drošību? Padalies pieredzē – varbūt, kāds mācīsies no tevis, varbūt tu kautko iegūsi no citu jauniešu pieredzes!

Ja esi atradis kaitīga vai nelegāla rakstura informāciju internetā – ziņo mums (http://www.drossinternets.lv/pub/report.php?lang=lat) un piedalies drošāka interneta veidošanā!

Launch of EU Kids Online

EU Kids Online (see www.eukidsonline.net)

A new project launched today [6th Feb 2007] promises to give a picture of children's internet use across Europe, reporting on all available research on use, risk and safety issues for children, young people and their families.

EU Kids Online is the first systematic European comparison of research on children and young people’s experience of the Internet and online technologies. It is funded by the EC Safer Internet Plus Programme.

Professor Sonia Livingstone, director of EU Kids Online, based at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), said: “There is a growing body of research showing that the internet can be risky for children and teenagers, though it also has lots of benefits. Compared with other European countries, British parents are aware of this, but they still need more guidance, especially as they don’t always know what their children are up to and because the risks themselves are changing all the time.”

Dr Leslie Haddon, co-director of EU Kids Online at LSE, said: “In this project, we are collecting all the research findings across Europe on this important topic in one place, so we can begin to compare findings across countries. But so far, this makes it obvious that a lot more research is needed”.

What does the research show?

By comparing available research in 18 countries, over 200 separate projects have been identified and linked to a publicly searchable repository (see www.eukidsonline.net). This provides a new and valuable resource for researchers, policy makers and the public. Research highlights include:

The 2006 Eurobarometer survey shows large variation across countries:
* 18% European parents/carers believe their child (under 18) has encountered harmful or illegal content on the internet.
* British parents are less likely to believe this than parents in Denmark, the Netherlands or Sweden, or those in Poland or Slovenia – possibly those most advanced in and those newest to the internet have the greatest concerns.
* From comparing three very different countries, it seems British parents claim to regulate their children’s use of Internet more: 62% of UK parents have rules about not giving out personal information online, but only 35% of Polish parents and 14% of Portuguese parents do so.
* Paradoxically, UK parents also seem to have more confidence in their children: 75% thought that their children would know what to do if a situation on the Internet made them feel uncomfortable (figures for Poland and Portugal are 56% and 48%).
* Possibly, safety awareness raising efforts in the UK have been more effective than in some other countries, as these have been coordinated across multiple stakeholders (government, child protection, industry, parenting organisations, etc).

Further, the 2006 Mediappro project found internet use varies greatly across Europe:
* 50% of British children (aged 12-18) claim to use Instant messaging, rising to 73% in Belgium, 82% in Estonia and 88% in Poland.
* In Denmark, 7% of children claim to have a blog, while the figures for the UK and Poland are 14% and 18% respectively, rising to 35% in Belgium.
* School rules also differ: 57% of Danish children claim their schools have rules governing Internet use, compared to 73% of Polish children, and two thirds in the UK.

What don’t we know?
* We still don’t know whether differences in European children’s experiences reflect genuine variations in risk or, instead, differences in how risks are perceived by parents and others.
* There is almost no research on whether children and young people have been exposed to racist, violent or gory material, or to gambling or self-harm sites.
* However, the 2006 Irish Webwise survey of 9-16 year olds found 26% had visited hateful sites, 35% had visited pornographic sites, 23% had received unwanted sexual comments online, and 7% had met an online contact offline.

In the UK, there are grounds for concern:
* Ofcom’s 2006 research shows 16% 8-15 yr olds have come across something ‘nasty, worrying or frightening’ online.
* The UK Children Go Online project found in 2004 that 12-19 year olds who take communication risks online tend to be more likely to be risk-takers who are less satisfied with their lives offline.

In the USA, some risks are increasing:
* The Online Victimization of Youth report found increased exposure to sexual material among 10-17 year olds (34% compared with 25% in 2003) and online harassment (9% vs. 6% in 2003), though they also found reduced unwanted sexual solicitations (13% vs. 19%). In that survey, 4% had been asked for nude/sexually explicit photos of themselves online.

But maybe children are getting more ‘internet literate’:
* The SAFT survey in Norway and Ireland found that in 2006, children were more critical of the internet and gave out less personal information than in 2003.
* Directing more safety awareness at children themselves may be the best way forward, since parents often don’t know just what their children are doing online.

Background information

EU Kids Online is at http://www.eukidsonline/net. Countries included are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands and The United Kingdom.

The 2006 Mediappro project (which surveyed 7393 teens aged 12-18 in 9 countries), see http://www.mediappro.org/

The 2006 Eurobarometer survey (which surveyed 29,248 parents/carers in 28 countries), see http://europa.eu.int/information_society/activities/sip/eurobarometer/index_en.htm

Ofcom’s Media Literacy Audit of Children is at http://www.ofcom.org.uk/advice/media_literacy/ml_audit/
The US National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s Report ‘Online Victimization of Youth, see http://www.missingkids.com/en_US/publications/NC167.pdf

UK Children Go Online, see http://www.children-go-online.net/

SAFT, see http://www.saftonline.org

Webwise, see http://www.webwise.ie/

Argentina: Crossing Borders

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El nuevo paradigma de comunicación que comenzó a desarrollarse a partir de la masificación de internet generó una evolución en las relaciones interpersonales que plantearon nuevos desafios a la sociedad moderna.

Sin embargo, la subsiguiente revolución hacia la conexión continua y multimedia produjo un abismo que dejó a la sociedad sin posibilidades de acompañar el ritmo evolutivo de la tecnología, creando al mismo tiempo un acento en las diferencias generacionales. Padres y maestros se ven abrumados por las posibilidades de comunicación que otorga la tecnología, y que los niños aprovechan en su totalidad.

Hoy la tecnología cumple un rol comunicador entre jovenes, niños y adolescentes. Espacios de "social networking" son indispensables para "existir" en la red, así como también para reafirmar la personalidad y el sentimiento de individualidad, o sea, utilizar los espacios de redes sociales como un lugar para "ser" y sobre todo, para "ser diferente".

Sin embargo, la diferencia generacional, obliga a que padres y maestros comprendan este fenómeno y puedan acompañar a los niños durante su proceso de desarrollo personal, intimamente ligado a la red y a sus posibilidades.

Desde ASIRA comprendimos que la forma de alcanzar este objetivo es a través de la capacitación y la concientización de los tres actores principales de esta historia: padres, maestros y niños. En febrero de 2007 comenzó el desarrollo de una campaña de comunicación a través de la cual podremos hacer llegar nuestro mensaje a la sociedad argentina. Para ello se desarrollaron spots televisivos y se encuentra en fase de creación material gráfico.

Deseamos aprovechar las posibilidades que ofrece la tecnología a los más chicos y para lograr esto, debemos mostrarles el camino y enseñarles a detectar que peligros se pueden esconder detrás del anonimato de la red.

El camino es largo. Pero sabemos que no estamos solos y contamos con el apoyo de organizaciones que comparten la misma pasión que nosotros: forjar una Internet mas Segura para los niños.

Javier Isasa
Presidente
ASIRA

A continuación podrán descargar los dos spots televisivos:

Spot 1

Spot 2

The Netherlands: Kids (and some adults;-) on Crossing Borders

How does the Internet make your world bigger?

Het internet maakt jouw wereld groter en verlegt jouw grenzen! Kom mee 'bloggen'over de rol van Internet in jouw leven. JOUW BLOG TELT!

Sandra, 11 jaar- nou door Internet met je eigenlijk telkens meer gaan doen
Sasha, 11 jaar- Ik vind het leuk om te msn-en
Robert- 10 jaar - Kennis!
Tamara- 11 jaar- Meer contact en interactie!
Robin- 11 jaar- Spellen zijn heel leuk, maar doe geen rare dingen
Tamara-11 jaar - Je moet het Internet gewoon als het echte leven zien!
Dana- 14 Jaar- Door MSN, dan hoef je jouw vrienden niet mee naar huis mee te nemen om ze te spreken
Iris- 13 jaar- Als je iets moet opzoeken voor je huiswerk is het heel handig!
Genne, 14 jaar- Met muziek downloaden, leuk!
Anne, 23 jaar- Mogelijkheid om alles uit te zoeken, contacten te leggen
Merel, 14 jaar - Je kan contact maken met iedereen
Neeltje, 29 jaar - Alles qua info is voortaan te vinden op Internet. Hierdoor koop ik steeds minder informatieboeken!
Masti, 33 jaar- Je krijgt informatie over landen, reizen, email, 2de hands produkten
Karen, 13 jaar - Je kan allemaal informatie opzoeken, vanuit de hele wereld. En je kan msn-en met de hele wereld
Marieke, 32 jaar - Nog meer landen, waar ik op vakantie wil!


Internet en Veiligheid gaan hand in hand samen. Wat betekent dit voor jou?

Masti, 33 jaar - Minder Spam, goed werkende wachtwoorden
Neeltje, 29 jaar - Anonimiteit, geen pop-ups en geen spam
Merel, 14 jaar - Dat je er zelf voor kan zorgen dat het veilig is.

Wales: Crossing Borders

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New web technologies today allow us to create and share content, communicate with others, participate in online activities and share our knowledge, skills and creativity very easily. These technologies provide unprecedented opportunities for learning and development across all communities. They allow us to truly Cross Borders - personally, locally, nationally and internationally. As Internet access becomes more pervasive across countries, there will be greater communication and sharing, and this can help create better understanding across cultures and people. WISE KIDS believes in the need for Internet access for everyone regardless of their socio-economic background. We also believe very strongly in the need for programmes of education that ensure that Internet literacy, proficiency and safety becomes key skills that every child acquires. Equally importantly, WISE KIDS believes in the need for pro-active programmes of education that show our young people and other communities how to maximise opportunities that new technologies can present. Only then would we have succeeded in truly crossing all our borders, and allowing individuals, communities and businesses to become co-creators in this knowledge ecomony.

Thanks to the InSafe team for excellent work!

Best wishes,
Sangeet Bhullar

Executive Director,
WISE KIDS,
Wales, UK
http://www.wisekids.org.uk
email:info@wisekids.org.uk

Spain: Spam used to boost stock prices

Spam is no longer simply a tool for mass-mailing unsolicited advertising, it is now being used in some cases to drive up certain prices on the stock market. There has been a series of mass-mailings containing stock market information, advising users to buy stocks in certain companies. We have analyzed one of these cases and found that stock prices in one of the companies mentioned increased significantly over a period of a few days -even rising 12 percent in one day-, thanks to this type of spam.

This new use of spam would seem to be quite effective from what we have seen so far. There are two possible sources: either the companies themselves are trying to boost their stock value, or -and this would seem more likely-, individuals that have bought cheap stocks and are looking for a quick profit on selling them. The typical model of this financial spam includes an image in which the user can read the information. Another characteristic is that the subject of the messages has nothing to do with the content. The aim of all this is to try to avoid anti-spam filtering systems.

These attacks are interesting in the sense that they demonstrate how the Internet can manipulate real-world financial situations. Until now we have just seen a few cases, albeit with relatively successful results. It is not too far-fetched then, to imagine attacks of this nature in the future used not just for direct profit but also as a weapon against companies, similar to the way in which companies are blackmailed with threats to crash their IT systems.

EuroISPA supporting safe use of a rich and vibrant Internet

Not so long ago, finding information about other countries, their sites of renown and unique life styles or just trying to find where in a town a given street is located, necessitated a trip to libraries, embassies, travel agents and more. In recent years the Internet has changed all that. More precisely it’s the World Wide Web that has brought previously distant places right in to the home.

This simple but brilliant invention has allowed anyone, everywhere to open their world to everyone around the globe. Providing information, some factual, some fictitious, some anecdotal, some fantasy, some just a picture of an interesting place near their home or encountered while on holiday. But always it is there for everyone to reach. All this combines to shrink the world into a miniscule place. A world where a few paces of your fingers walking over the keyboard can bring you across more borders in 10 seconds than a supersonic jet could ever hope to bring you across in a thousand times that time.

The Web brings to us a wealth of wonderful information. It can open our minds to other countries, cultures and ways of living. This can also expose us to other norms, customs and ways of doing things. Some we may find interesting, some bizarre, some we may find offensive to our way of thinking. Travellers of the real world have learned to take precautions, especially when crossing far-away borders. This includes packing suitable clothes, getting inoculations against diseases, buying traveller’s cheques, carrying insect repellent and other means to keep themselves safe in unfamiliar places.

Similarly, we must teach our children to prepare themselves for the virtual world of abundant and diverse information. They must develop life skills that prepare them for strange encounters and make the right decisions to stay safe as they cross borders of experiences brought into their homes over their Internet connection. Developing this awareness amongst adults and children alike is the essence of Safer Internet day.

EuroISPA http://www.euroispa.org brings together ISP industry associations across European borders. Through our members we support many activities that assist to educate and promote safe and fulfilling use of the Internet while maintaining the freedom of expression (within the laws of the host country) that allows the Internet to be the rich, fascinating and growing resource it is today.

Paul Durrant (ISPA Ireland) ISPAI www.hotline.ie
EuroISPA Council Member

UK: Telefónica O2 Europe

February 2006. Telefónica crosses borders to UK, Ireland and Germany as O2 becomes part of Telefónica family.

May 2006. Irish Code of Practice published - UK self-regulation model has been crossing borders in Europe since 2004.

June 2006. O2 enters UK broadband market with purchase of Be, one of the most innovative and technically advanced UK broadband providers.

August 2006. Top internet sites cross the border to mobile - eBay launches on O2 Active.

August 2006. O2 Germany unveils integrated mobile and broadband services.

October 2006. TV crosses border to mobile – O2 launched first ever mobile TV trial in Ireland.

October 2006. Crossing borders is now cheaper with O2 – O2 and Movistar offer free incoming calls when travelling in Europe.

November 2006. TV crosses border to Internet technology – Telefónica O2 Czech Republic has 10,000 IPTV subscribers.

November 2006. O2 signs Media Literacy Carter to promote the development of the creative and critical skills needed to get the best from of digital media.

As convergence becomes a reality we all have a role in ensuring the public have the knowledge and confidence to enjoy the digital world.

January 2007. Crossing borders in Europe - O2 enters fifth European market with Slovakia.

www.o2.co.uk/saferinternetday

Italia: che funzione hanno le nuove tecnologie nella nostra vita?

La crescente importanza che internet e le nuove tecnologie assumono nelle nostre vite è testimoniata, per esempio, dal crescente utilizzo che facciamo del cellulare, strumento quotidiano considerato indispensabile dalla maggioranza degli italiani e da sempre più giovani e giovanissimi utenti.
Essendo il cellulare ormai parte delle nostre vite, raramente ci fermiamo a pensare alla funzione che questo strumento ha, cioé se integra un bisogno comunicativo più esteso o se è arrivato a sostituire il nostro modo di comunicare con gli altri, anche quelli che ci stanno più vicini.
Siamo noi che utilizziamo le nuove tecnologie per agevolare le nostre comunicazioni o le nuove tecnologie hanno preso il sopravvento sul nostro modo di comunicare e di relazionarci con gli altri?

EMEA: Crossing Borders at Microsoft

By Carrie Bogner, Senior Director of Citizenship, Online Services Group, Microsoft

I’ve been working in the IT business for more than 25 years now. It’s been a time of massive expansion in the availability and capability of technology for personal use. In the last 7 years my focus has been the online world and I’ve been lucky enough to witness and participate in some amazing uses of internet technologies to cross borders. I’d like to share a couple of ways I’ve been doing just that recently.


I grew up in Dodge City Kansas in the USA. My work takes me all around the world and I currently live in London. Much of my family remain in Kansas, but I’m not missing out on seeing my nieces and nephews grow up. Weekly web cam calls mean we’re in regular contact, sharing news and experiences and I get to play my part in our small family community no matter where in the world I find myself.


I’m also involved in a much much bigger global community that crosses borders to help child refugees – ninemillion (http://nine-million.spaces.live.com/). Through web sites, blogs, social networks, internet searches, online events and more, a global community of supporters are bringing the issue to the attention of the world and raising funds to provide education and sport opportunities for kids in refugee camps.


My job provides me opportunities to learn about and experience different cultures all around the world. When you cross borders, you get the chance to really appreciate the similarities and differences – and I get to see how they translate into the online world. We had some fascinating results from research last year that looked at uses of social networking around the world. Here are some highlights...


- In Brazil they are the most flirtatious, creating a very highly charged environment for social networking, and the most popular site there is called “All Cut”

- In China consumers are very etiquette driven, so if you update your site all your viewers must actually send a reply and if they don’t it’s considered rude

- In Canada it is heavily friend driven and migration has a big impact in that they’re staying in touch with their friends and family across the world

- In France it was quite distinctive in that it was much more about personal expression and blogging than about networking with people

- In the US they are beginning to see the emergence of Spaces and social networks as another form of entertainment

- In the UK consumers are seeing this emergence as a new form of social currency. Instead of handing out your mobile phone number to new friends, you would hand out your Windows Live Spaces address

I really believe there is so much our global community can gain from crossing borders through online services – broadening our horizons and building bridges between people and cultures in a way that was never before possible. But I also recognise that the internet and online services can be used for harm as well as good. It saddens me, but does not surprise me, that the worst of human-nature exists online, just as it does offline.


So I can’t stress enough how important it is that we all learn how to protect ourselves and our friends and families in the online world, just as much as we do in the offline world. We’ve got to learn what the risks are and educate ourselves and others about them.


Forewarned is forearmed as they say. Technologies such as phishing filters, content filters and contact management tools can help to protect people. But as with many things in life, learning to behave safely is just as vital, if not more so.


Here are some resources Microsoft has been proud to support, which parents, children and educators may find useful:-
• http://www.getsafeonline.org/ (English)
• http://www.websafecrackerz.com/ (English)
• http://www.internauten.de/ (German)
• http://www.acosoescolar.info (Spain)
• http://www.surfsafe.nl/ (Dutch)

You can also find information about online safety and security on the Microsoft web site at www.microsoft.com/protect


Safer Internet Day is a great day to show how committed we are to enabling people of all ages to travel the online globe as safely as possible. Insafe is providing a tremendous facility for people and organisations to combine their efforts in this area and we’re thrilled to be involved. Through partnerships, technology, educational materials, policies and enforcement, we can make a difference.


So if you do one thing today, on Safer Internet Day, do something to educate yourself or someone you know about online safety. That’s what I’m going to be doing!


My utmost respect and best wishes to everyone working to make the internet a safer place.
Carrie

Ireland - WATCH_YOUR_SPACE


Minister launches new internet safety campaign - WATCH YOUR SPACE

The Minister for Education and Science, Mary Hanafin, T.D., launched WATCH YOUR SPACE - a new campaign to raise awareness and promote safe, responsible practice by young people when online. The key messages of the campaign are:
- be creative !
- be yourself !
- be in control !

The campaign has a strong peer-to-peer perspective and centres on an interactive online service, www.watchyourspace.ie developed by the National Centre Technology in Education (NCTE).This site offers practical tips and advice and supports teenagers who use the web. A key feature is the advice given from teenagers to teenagers on how to cope with the fall-out from abuses and misuse of social networking and picture -sharing websites.

Webwise has developed a short video that will give you an insight into what teenagers are doing online, what they think the risks are, and what advice they share with each other about getting the most out of the new online interactive service.

<<< Click here to watch the video >>>


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Launching the new safety campaign Minister Hanafin said "we are now seeing an explosion of creativity. When online young people should ensure that they are creative, be themselves but above all be in control. Disclosing too much personal information can put young people at increased risks of commercial exploitation, bullying and harassment.  Some of the content on these sites ranges from careless to shocking and can include obscenity and bullying.

Advice on the site is very clear - "once you upload a picture to the Internet you have lost control of it. It can be copied, altered and displayed in different contexts without your consent. Stay in control by only uploading pictures that you are happy for everyone to see."

Minister Hanafin said "teenagers are actively creating personal profiles, reviewing books on Amazon, recording podcasts, blogging about their hobbies and recording songs about their experiences. They are filming the major events in their lives and sharing them with their friends and family using the web. This is great as long as it is done in a sensible, responsible and safe manner."
 
Watch Your Space has presentations of the key findings from studies of teenagers' use of the Internet by other teenagers. It is also integrated with an online helpline service from Childline. The website will be promoted through a poster campaign in schools and supported by an educational and informational pack being sent to all schools.
 
Minister Hanafin welcomed students from seven schools from around the country who won awards and commendations at this year's BT Young Scientist exhibition, with projects on how teenagers are using the internet.

"I am pleased to see the strong peer-to-peer perspective of this campaign - all this new media are, above all, young persons' media and young people have much to learn from each other about safe and responsible online practice."

Spain: Cartoons: a trap for children on the Internet?

The Internet hosts millions of pages created by people of all cultures, beliefs and customs. For this reason, just as you can find information about the latest subatomic particle discovered, there is also content -leaving aside the argument about whether it should be on the Internet or not- that clearly should not be accessed by people in their formative years. Web pages about violence, pornography, terrorism war, murder; sites inciting racism, anorexia and even suicide… it’s all out there on the Net and accessible to anyone that can use a browser or punch in a web address.

Given how new the Internet is, it is still early to determine exactly what the consequences are of young people being exposed to this type of content, but news stories that have already emerged pointing to a link between the Internet and certain murders or suicides suggest the need for rigorous control over the contents that can be freely accessed. The way in which children access unsuitable material on the Internet is one of the most important parts of the problem, as it is not simply an issue that depends exclusively on the intentions of the user. Countless web pages on a whole range of topics display pop-ups or contain links to pages that are plainly unsuitable for youngsters. Web pages about characters such as Pokemon, My Little Pony or Action Man contained hundreds of links to porn sites.

While it is quite normal for parents to regulate, to some extent or another, the time that children spend watching TV, the same doesn’t apply to the Internet. It seems necessary therefore, to make those who should supervise children using the Internet aware that the danger of accessing inappropriate content is a real one and that it is not just a question of instructing children and adolescents in how to use the Internet correctly, but also how to behave and the tools to use

Spain: Trojans accounted for more than half of all new malware in 2006

53.6 percent of the new malware samples in 2006 were Trojans. The number of new variants of Trojans appearing increased throughout 2006, especially during the last quarter.

Trojans are a type of malicious code used to obtain confidential data such as bank account passwords. The large number of new variants in 2006 is due to the fact that this type of malware is ideally suited to the current trend of using malware for fraud. Spyware, however, gathers information about the target user, such as web pages visited, searches made, etc, allowing companies that use it to generate more personalized and profitable advertising. Despite their differences, Trojans and spyware have a common objective: to aid criminals to obtain money.

Bots are the second malware category with most variants in circulation (14%), whereas backdoor Trojans come third with 13.6 percent. Bots are programs that go resident on computers, awaiting ‘commands’ from their creators, who can then take control of the affected system to carry out activities such as spamming. Backdoor Trojans are programs that let attackers access computers remotely.

Both bots and backdoor Trojans have proved to be very useful for those looking for financial gain, and that’s the reason for their proliferation. On occasions, they have served as platforms for cyber-criminals to spread other types of malware, through so-called botnets, which allow attackers to command all computers infected by a bot to download certain spyware or Trojan from a web page.

Spain: Desde enero de 2005 se ha detectado la aparición de más de 7.000 troyanos bancarios nuevos y únicos

Según los datos de PandaLabs, entre enero de 2005 y enero de 2007 han aparecido más de 7.0006 troyanos bancarios nuevos y únicos. Existen troyanos específicos para casi todas las entidades financieras que ofrecen servicios online en el mundo, por lo que no se trata de un problema aislado que afecte únicamente a unos pocos usuarios de determinados servicios financieros online.

Los troyanos bancarios están específicamente diseñados para interceptar los accesos que los usuarios hacen a servicios de banca online y robar así datos relativos a los mismos: logins, passwords, PINS, números de cuenta y de tarjetas de crédito, etc., con los que luego realizar todo tipo de delitos, como fraudes online o robos de identidad. Por lo tanto, la gran cantidad de troyanos en circulación conforman un panorama especialmente peligroso para todos los usuarios que realizan sus operaciones financieras a través de Internet.

Los creadores de troyanos bancarios aplican nuevas funcionalidades a sus creaciones para conseguir que tengan mayor eficacia. Por ejemplo, hace unos meses se detectó la aparición del troyano Banbra.DCY que realiza capturas en video de los datos introducidos por los usuarios a través de ”teclados virtuales” (el usuario no pulsa teclas para introducir sus claves, sino que pulsa con el ratón sobre un teclado gráfico que aparece en pantalla).

Los troyanos bancarios tienen otro peligro añadido, que es su forma de distribución, casi siempre realizada de forma oculta para los usuarios. Entre las técnicas que los autores de estas amenazas emplean pueden mencionarse los ataques dirigidos contra un usuario o grupos de usuarios concretos utilizando ingeniería social personalizada, o el aprovechamiento de vulnerabilidades de software que permitan la descarga oculta de códigos maliciosos -por ejemplo- al visitar páginas web.

Cyberhus, Denmark: Louise Gade on the blog...

Our politician for kids and young people in Aarhus, Louise Gade, has written about how to behave on the web:


Hello outthere......

Do you know how to be a good buddy on the internet ?. Do you know how to give a hug on the internet?

The internet gives us so many possibilities to meet good friends - perhaps a girl or boyfriend ;- ) and to learn a lot of new useful or funny information. But, but, but ............

Among even good friends and useful informations you should be aware of dangers and your own behaviour.

Are al informations correct or is any information meant to hurt anybody.

Is every friend in cyberspace a good friend - or does anybody try to cheat you.

Are you yourselves able not to hurt a person on the internet even when a person has disappointed you very much.

Try to give these questions a discussion with your friends - not only today - but often. Then you will have only good experiences on the net.

Spain: Seguridad ante fraudes con tarjetas de crédito

El la edad media, una orden cristiana, los templarios, fueron los inventores de un sistema para poder desplazarse a tierra santa sin dinero en efectivo, un concepto similar a lo que hoy sería el de una tarjeta bancaria. No es que desarrollaran la banda magnética, ni que inventaran los polímeros plásticos, pero sí un documento mediante el que se puede recuperar dinero en un sitio distinto al que se depositó. Fue un importante avance en su tiempo.

Hoy en día la filosofía de las tarjetas de crédito sigue siendo muy similar. Podemos desplazarnos a distintos sitios sin necesidad de llevar dinero, aunque el desplazamiento sea hasta la tienda más cercana. Ese documento, la tarjeta, acredita que el comerciante podrá cobrar a la persona que lo porta, tiene una determinada cantidad de dinero que le respalda.

Tal y como los templarios exigían, es necesario que el portador se identifique de alguna manera. Hoy en día la identificación telemática es compleja (por lo menos más que un simple anillo, que les bastaba a los templarios), y este es el principal problema que tienen los usuarios de las tarjetas: no existe conciencia de la importancia de la validación personal a la hora de utilizar la tarjeta de crédito.

En una tarjeta de crédito existen varios sistemas de seguridad, que en muchos casos pasan desapercibidos por los usuarios. Los más utilizados son tres conjuntos de números que deben mantenerse en secreto (sobre todo el PIN, o número de identificación del usuario).

La seguridad 100%, como siempre, es imposible de alcanzar. Por muchos sistemas de seguridad que se empleen, siempre existirá la posibilidad de que nos “copien” la tarjeta mediante un lector de bandas magnéticas, o muchas otras amenazas cada vez más complejas. Dentro de estas amenazas, sin duda las que están produciendo cada vez más perjuicios para los usuarios sol las relacionadas con es el uso masivo de tarjetas de crédito para compras por Internet.

Cada vez que tecleamos nuestros códigos de identificación para comprar algo en Internet, esos códigos viajan por la Red y pueden ser interceptados por usuarios maliciosos. Para ello, existen varias maneras de capturar electrónicamente los datos:

- Man-in-the-middle (hombre en el medio). Mediante esta técnica, el ladrón de los datos intercepta la comunicación entre el usuario y el sitio web real, actuando a modo de proxy. De esta manera, es capaz de escuchar toda la comunicación entre ambos. Para que tenga éxito, debe ser capaz de redirigir al cliente hacia su proxy en vez de hacia el servidor real. Existen diversas técnicas para conseguirlo, como por ejemplo los proxies transparentes, el DNS Cache Poisoning o envenenamiento de Caché DNS (Domain Name Server, Servidor de Nombres de Dominio) y la ofuscación del URL.

- Aprovechamiento de vulnerabilidades de tipo Cross-Site Scripting en un sitio web, que permiten simular una página web segura de una entidad bancaria, sin que el usuario pueda detectar anomalías en la dirección ni en el certificado de seguridad que aparece en el navegador.

- Aprovechamiento de vulnerabilidades del navegador en el cliente, que permiten mediante el uso de exploits falsear la dirección que aparece en el navegador. De esta manera, se podría redirigir el navegador a un sitio fraudulento, mientras que en la barra de direcciones del navegador se mostraría la URL del sitio de confianza. Mediante esta técnica, también es posible falsear las ventanas pop-up abiertas desde una página web auténtica.

- Algunos ataques de este tipo también hacen uso de exploits en sitios web fraudulentos que, aprovechando alguna vulnerabilidad, permiten descargar troyanos de tipo keylogger que robarán información confidencial del usuario.

- Otra técnica más sofisticada es la denominada Pharming. Se trata de una táctica fraudulenta que consiste en cambiar los contenidos del DNS ya sea a través de la configuración del protocolo TCP/IP o del archivo lmhost (que actúa como una caché local de nombres de servidores), para redirigir los navegadores a páginas falsas en lugar de las auténticas cuando el usuario accede a las mismas a través de su navegador. Además, en caso de que el usuario afectado por el pharming navegue a través de un proxy para garantizar su anonimato, la resolución de nombres del DNS del proxy puede verse afectada de forma que todos los usuarios que lo utilicen sean conducidos al servidor falso en lugar del legítimo.


Pero cualquiera de estos sistemas de robo de datos necesitan de una capacidad técnica de programación y de conocimientos que no siempre están al alcance de todo el mundo. Así que lo más sencillo para conseguir los datos de una tarjeta de crédito es engañar directamente al usuario, mediante la técnica llamada “phishing” Esta técnica consiste en el envío de correos electrónicos que, aparentando provenir de fuentes fiables (por ejemplo, entidades bancarias), intentan obtener datos confidenciales del usuario. Para ello, suelen incluir un enlace que, al ser pulsado, lleva a páginas web falsificadas. De esta manera, el usuario, creyendo estar en un sitio de toda confianza, introduce la información solicitada que, en realidad, va a parar a manos del estafador.

A pesar de este desolador panorama, las tecnologías actuales han evolucionado lo suficiente como para evitar la salida de un ordenador de determinados datos. Al igual que se puede prevenir la entrada de virus en un sistema analizando la información entrante, se puede vigilar la información saliente para evitar que los usuarios, en un descuido, puedan equivocarse.

El robo de información personal en un ordenador, tan peligroso cuando son datos sobre bancos, puede ser evitado. Si los usuarios instalan suites de seguridad completas, efectivas e inteligentes, ningún número secreto caerá en manos de usuarios remotos. Ahora solamente queda guardar la tarjeta en un lugar seguro: como alguien dijo, “No busques en la tecnología soluciones a la seguridad física”.

Spain: ¿Virus en consolas?

Han surgido noticias acerca de códigos maliciosos que afectan a numerosos dispositivos, más allá del concepto que se tiene del típico “virus para ordenador”. Podemos pasar revista a estas amenazas y encontraríamos los primeros en teléfonos móviles, a los que siguieron enseguida los coches con bluetooth. A continuación, apareció un virus para la consola de videojuegos Sony PSP, y a semana siguiente, para la Nintendo DS.

No creo que haya nada de extraño en esta proliferación de códigos, era lógico que tarde o temprano aparecieran. Como norma básica en el mundo de la seguridad, allá donde haya un sistema programable, pueden crearse códigos maliciosos. Y mucho más en un sistema tan complejo como una consola de videojuegos, en el que no solamente hay un sistema operativo completo, sino documentación para desarrolladores.

Esta situación no debe sorprender a nadie. Sí, era previsible, y no cabe la más mínima duda de que en poco tiempo surjan más códigos de este tipo. Pero siempre queda la tranquilidad de que es muy poco probable que puedan propagarse.

En principio, las consolas de videojuegos no son sistemas abiertos en los que cualquiera pueda introducir nuevo software tal y como se puede hacer en un ordenador personal. Los PC están pensados para adaptar su funcionamiento a las necesidades del usuario mediante la instalación de programas con diferentes fines, son lo que se llama sistemas de propósito general. Así, el mismo hardware que se utiliza para escribir una carta puede utilizarse para la catalogación de especies botánicas o para la contabilidad empresarial, mientras que una consola de videojuegos se ha diseñado desde el origen para una única función: jugar.

Además, en un sistema personal existen numerosos dispositivos a través de los cuales introducir información, que no son tan accesibles en una consola de videojuegos. Cierto es que las consolas de última generación utilizan dispositivos de comunicación muy comunes, como es el memory stick o las conexiones USB, IrDA y WiFi, pero no es tan sencillo como puede parece a primera vista poder llegar a “hurgar” en ellos tal y como se hace en un PC.

El software desarrollado para las consolas (los juegos) lo está de manera que cause la menor cantidad posible de problemas. En ningún caso van a intentar explotar una vulnerabilidad, intentar escribir en zonas no permitidas, y ni mucho menos están pensados para multiplicarse como haría un código malicioso.

Para que un usuario resultara infectado, debe se víctima de algún engaño, es decir, que le hagan instalar un software de manera malintencionada y sin decirle qué es lo que va a hacer ese software. Y aunque eso pueda hacerse fácilmente (¿Quién se negaría a introducir un cartucho o un memory stick que un amigo le deja para probar una demo o un juego nuevo?), lo único que serviría es para perder definitivamente a ese amigo.

Podemos, si acaso, pensar en una posibilidad más teórica: la descarga de un software a través del vínculo inalámbrico que ofrecen las nuevas consolas. Una descarga involuntaria de software a través de esa conexión puede suponer una infección. Pero, en este caso, nos encontramos con la misma situación de seguridad que en un ordenador normal, en el que descargar de software puede hacer que el equipo sufra las consecuencias de programas malintencionados o de errores inesperados.

Afortunadamente, la solución es muy sencilla: no fiarnos. Todo el software que incorporemos a nuestra consola debe ser siempre original, y certificado por el desarrollador. Tanto Activision, como Game Freak, Blade Interactive o SOE, de entre los muchísimos desarrolladores de juegos, tienen un especialísimo cuidado en que su software sea el mejor entre todos, el más rápido, el más espectacular y por supuesto, el que menos problemas cree a sus usuarios.

En definitiva, que nuestra consola, en el fondo, no es un juguete. Ni por precio ni por capacidad debemos olvidarnos de que es un ordenador y que hay que tener cuidado con el software que instalamos. Si lo hacemos así, podremos seguir disfrutando de ella y nos durará mucho tiempo, casi tanto como me ha durado a mí la Atari.

Spain: Security against credit card fraud

In the Middle Ages, the Knights Templar invented a system to enable pilgrims to travel to the Holy Land without having to carry ‘real’ money with them. This system would perhaps be an equivalent to the bank cards we carry with us today. Obviously we're not saying they invented magnetic strips or synthetic polymers, but rather a document that enabled the pilgrim to withdraw money in a different location to where it had been deposited. This was a major innovation at the time.

Today, the philosophy behind credit cards is very much the same. We can move from place to place without having to carry cash, even if we're only talking about going down to the local store. This document, the card, certifies that the vendor can charge the bearer of the card in the knowledge that it has a guarantee (of the bank, for example) up to a certain amount.

And as was the case with the Templar system, the bearer of the card needs to prove their identity. Today, such identification is a complex task (unlike the simple ring used by the Knights Templar) and this represents the main problem for bank card users: there is insufficient awareness of the importance of ID verification when using these types of cards.

There are several security systems for credit cards which users are often unaware of. The most widely used are three sets of numbers that need to be kept secret (in particular the PIN).

One hundred percent security is, as always, impossible to achieve. Regardless of the security system used, there is always a possibility of somebody cloning your card by using a magnetic strip reader or other even more complex dangers. Of these, threats related with the massive use of credit cards over the Internet are now the most costly to users.

Every time you enter your identification code to buy something on the Internet, this code travels across the Net and could be intercepted by malicious users. There are several techniques that enable them to do this:

- Man-in-the-middle. This technique allows data thieves to intercept the communication between the user and the real website, acting as if they were a proxy, and potentially listening to all communication between the two. In order for such an attack to be successful, the victim must be redirected to the attacker’s proxy instead of the real server. There are several techniques for doing this, such as using transparent proxies, DNS cache poisoning and URL obscuring.

- Exploits of Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities on a website, enabling the spoofing of the bank’s secure web page, in such a way that users will not be able to detect anomalies in the address nor the security certificate that appears on the browser.

- Exploiting browser vulnerabilities that allow the address that appears in the browser to be spoofed. This means the browser can be redirected to a spoofed website, while the address in the address bar will be the URL of the trusted site. This technique also allows spoofing of pop-ups opened from an authentic website.

- Some attacks of this type also use exploits on fraudulent websites, taking advantage of a vulnerability to download keylogger Trojans that steal confidential user information.

- Another more sophisticated technique is called Pharming. This involves changing the DNS content either through the TCP/IP protocol settings or the lmhost file (which acts as a local cache of server names), to redirect browsers to spoofed pages instead of the genuine ones when users access them through the browser. Moreover, if the victim of pharming is using a proxy connection to guarantee anonymity, the DNS name resolution of the proxy can be affected so that all users are directed to the false server instead of the legitimate one.

But any of these data theft systems require a level of programming ability and knowledge that is not within everyone's reach. So the simplest way of stealing credit card details is to trick the user directly using a technique called phishing. This technique involves sending emails which apparently come from reliable sources (such as banks, etc) and are designed to obtain confidential user information. To achieve this, they often include a link to spoofed web pages. Users then, believing they are in a reliable site, enter any information requested which actually falls into the hands of the fraudster.

Despite this rather depressing panorama, security technology has evolved sufficiently to prevent confidential information from being extracted from a computer. Just as viruses can be prevented from infecting a system, by the scanning of all inbound information, outbound information can also be scanned to prevent users, in a moment of carelessness, from making a costly mistake.

Theft of personal information from a computer, so potentially dangerous when this involves bank details, can be avoided. If users install complete, effective and intelligent security solutions, no secret numbers will fall into the hands of remote users. Then all you need to do is make sure you keep the card in a safe place -after all, surely you can’t expect technology to do that for you.

Spain: Filtrado de contenidos


A la hora de navegar por Internet, los usuarios se encuentran con el problema de seleccionar qué contenidos son seguros y cuáles no. Aunque en muchos casos estas tareas se dejan en manos de los antivirus y los firewall personales, debemos tener en cuenta que no siempre se está alcanzando los niveles de seguridad que realmente deseamos. Hoy en día hay tantos tipos de archivos que pueden resultar peligrosos que no es posible conocerlos todos.

El problema se agrava a la hora de seleccionar qué los archivos adjuntos que lleguen por correo electrónico. Aunque muchos ficheros lleguen de remitentes en los cuales confiamos, siempre queda la duda de qué hacer con ese fichero de extensión extraña que nos han mandado: ¿Será un documento de texto? ¿Es un fichero de vídeo? ¿Es código ejecutable por alguna aplicación extraña?

Para aclarar un poco este panorama, veamos cuáles son los tipos de archivo que deben ser bloqueados, analizados o, por lo menos, tenidos en cuenta a la hora de utilizarlos.

En primer lugar, hay que ser especialmente precavido con los ficheros ejecutables, en cualquiera de sus formas clásicas, sean EXE, COM o BAT. Todos ellos pueden tener cualquier tipo de código dentro, son los formatos directamente ejecutables. Están definidos así desde los primeros tiempos de la informática personal, antes de que IBM lanzara su modelo “PC” en 1981, cuando CP/M era el sistema operativo para los ordenadores personales. CP/M utilizaba siempre como ejecutables ficheros COM, y posteriormente, ya con DOS, se incluyeron los ficheros EXE y los BAT.

Con el avance de los sistemas operativos fueron incluyéndose nuevos tipos de ficheros con capacidad de lanzar código ejecutable, aunque por sí mismos no tuvieran capacidad de ejecutarse. Son, por ejemplo, los ficheros PIF (Program Information File) desarrollados para Windows (ya desde sus primeras versiones), que describían la manera de ejecutar un fichero. En ellos iban parámetros especiales, tales como la cantidad de memoria a emplear, el directorio a utilizar, cómo manejar la pantalla, etc.

El posterior desarrollo de los sistemas operativos y de las técnicas de programación llevaron consigo la aparición de ficheros con código ejecutable en otros formatos, como los ficheros OVR, OVL y, en la actualidad, DLL. Aunque no son ejecutables directamente, los módulos principales de los programas (los ficheros EXE) los cargan en memoria y acuden a ellos en determinados momentos.

Para facilitar el uso de los ordenadores personales, los ficheros con datos que no son ejecutables pasaron a tener un comportamiento especial. Se les asocia con una determinada aplicación de manera que a la hora de consultar esos datos se abra automáticamente la aplicación que los generó. Así, por ejemplo, si en Windows hacemos doble clic sobre un fichero que no es ejecutable, como puede ser un fichero BMP, Windows reconoce su extensión como asociada a un programa, normalmente Paint, y lo abre junto con los datos cargados.

En el ejemplo anterior, un fichero BMP no contiene más que información, por lo que no puede llegar a ser peligroso, pero hay otros ficheros con datos que sí pueden ser peligrosos al abrirlos junto con el programa asociado. Es el caso de los ficheros con macros, como los DOC de Word, XLS de Excel, etc.

Filtrado de páginas web

Otro importante aspecto de los filtros reside no ya en los ficheros que recibimos o descargamos, sino en el contenido de la página web que estamos visitando. En Internet existe tal cantidad de tipos de páginas distintas que es completamente imposible para un usuario implementar algún tipo de filtro en la navegación.

En este momento, muchos lectores se preguntarán por la necesidad de implementar limitaciones a la navegación. Las razones son muchas, fundamentalmente para evitar que otras personas no vean desde nuestro ordenador páginas web que no queremos que vean. Este filtrado es especialmente necesario a la hora de dejar que niños y jóvenes estén conectados sin una vigilancia constante.

Aunque lo parezca, no estoy abogando por la censura, sino simplemente por un control de las páginas que pueda ver un niño. Por ejemplo, no creo que a ningún padre en su sano juicio le interese que su hijo pequeño pueda recrearse con fotos sobre atentados terroristas en las que pueden aparecer cadáveres destrozados, o que un adolescente entre en páginas con ideologías nazis o que hagan apología de la violencia.

Para evitar estos peligros, hay muchas páginas web que ya se encuentran catalogadas, y antes de acceder a ellas es posible verificar si su contenido es adecuado o no según unos criterios establecidos. Por ejemplo, podemos evitar la entrada a páginas web que tengan muertes, violencia extrema o sexo explícito. Para ello, evidentemente, es necesario contar con un programa que lleve a cabo el control de las páginas y evite el acceso a las no autorizadas.

Spain: Online games targeted by cyber-crooks

The new malware dynamic, which has seen a shift toward financial returns as the principal drive for malware creators, is increasingly targeting online games. Specifically, cyber-crooks are now after the login details for installing and accessing online games. Similarly, these criminals are trying to rob players of the ‘virtual assets’ obtained in the games, such as virtual money that can be used in the game to buy weapons, powers, etc. Given the effort required by players to obtain these items, there are many people prepared to pay for them as an easy way of reaching higher levels and increasing their reputation. In this way, the virtual economy of the game translates into real profits for the cyber-crook.

With the increasing number of games available online, there is a corresponding increase in the options for those willing to exploit this lucrative by-product of online games. There is now the risk that a whole new business model could be operated by cyber-mafias, stealing virtual assets, of apparently no real value, and selling them for real money to the highest bidder.

The malware that most frequently affects games are Trojans. The Lineage virus steals the login details of a player, allowing another player to relieve him of the virtual money used to buy weapons, privileges or abilities within the game. The different variations of the Legmir virus target players of “Legend of Mir”, stealing their passwords. Gaobot and its variants, although more widely known for their bot characteristics, also try to get in on the act, stealing the Cd-Keys of several games, and spreading to new potential victims. Similarly, they open a backdoor on infected computers making them vulnerable to future attack. Users of “World of Warcraft” could be affected by Trj/WoW.

Spain: Cómo detectar un bulo (hoax)

En Internet hay muchos tipos de contenidos que circulan libremente, generalmente buenos, pero hay que tener en cuenta que también circula otra serie de elementos malignos. Una de las cosas desagradables con la que podemos encontrarnos con mucha frecuencia son los hoaxes.

Un hoax es un e-mail que recibimos con un mensaje supuestamente muy importante, que pide que se reenvíe a todas las personas a las que se pueda para advertirles de un supuesto peligro sobre el que informa el mensaje. Sin embargo, el mensaje es falso y reenviarlo únicamente va a conseguir un tráfico de mensajes completamente innecesario, parecido a las cartas en cadena. El único propósito de los hoaxes es hacer perder tiempo e incrementar el tráfico de red hasta saturarla.

Los hoaxes son malware, al igual que los virus. De hecho, incluso podríamos establecer varias similitudes:

- Un virus es un código malicioso camuflado en un programa inofensivo; un hoax es un mensaje falso camuflado bajo el aspecto de un mensaje importante, basado en una historia real.

- Un virus se propaga por correo electrónico; los hoaxes también

- Un virus interrumpe la productividad al afectar al ordenador; un hoax también, al hacer que el usuario lo lea y lo reenvíe, además de sobrecargar servidores de correo por todo el mundo.

Hay una gran diferencia entre un hoax y un virus. Los virus suelen propagarse de manera que el usuario no lo perciba, pero como el hoax no es un programa, no puede hacerlo. Debe ser más astuto: la técnica es engañar al usuario para conseguir que lo reenvíe.

Para identificar un hoax basta con seguir las siguientes pistas:

- Cualquier correo que te inste a reenviarlo a cuanta gente puedas, es un hoax.

- Los hoaxes solo funcionan si pueden convencer al usuario de que son fiables. Suelen hacerlo citando a alguna fuente de confianza, bien conocida o al menos con nombre reconocido.

- Un hoax se propaga a base de reenvíos de correo, y la mayoría de correos añaden el símbolo “>” al texto reenviado, así que los hoaxes suelen estar llenos de “>>>>>”.

- Pueden incorpora firmas falsas, pero generalmente vienen sin firmar.

- Suelen anunciar grandes catástrofes, que generalmente ocurrirán por culpa de un virus increíble (del que no se tienen noticias en ninguna empresa desarrolladora de antivirus).

- Por si acaso no es bastante con amenazar con destruir el ordenador, en muchos casos añaden características de cartas en cadena, diciendo que si lo reenvías vas a conseguir inmensos favores del destino y, si no lo haces, la más negra de las miserias se cernirá sobre ti.

- Los hoaxes suelen tener una redacción muy mala, sin respetar la Gramática, ni la Ortografía. Quizá se hace así para que llamen más la atención. Se nota en muchos casos que han sido traducidos del inglés, pero por personas que ni saben inglés ni su idioma.

Denmark: Keep in mind your online identity

- Malene Charlotte Larsen, Phd. Student, University of Aalborg

Have you ever thought about the fact that what you put online about yourself could stay there forever or the way in which you portray yourself today might affect the way people see you in ten years?

Social networking sites like MySpace and Friendster have become extremely popular – especially among young people. In Denmark there is one particular site that has won the heart of almost every Danish teenager. The website is called Arto and it has more than half a million users (out of a 5,4 million population). It is estimated that 80 % of all Danes between the age of 12 and 18 years old have a profile on the website. I too have a profile on Arto even though I am not in the target group. However, I am a PhD Student from Aalborg University who is doing research on young people’s use of social networking sites. I use my profile as part of my research activities.

Being private online
I have had my profile on Arto for two years now and during that time I have seen how Danish teenagers portray themselves (and each other, by the way) through their profiles, picture galleries, video clips and so on. In my opinion there are many good things to be said about what they are doing and I have written a lot about that in my dissertation called “Youth, friendships and identity” which is based on my investigations on Arto. However, I must admit that once in a while I have thought “Why would he portray himself in that way?” or “Why did se choose that picture of herself to put on front of her profile?” I know that many parents, teachers or other adults who are none-users think this to an even grater extend.

What I have realized is that few of the young people think about the public aspect of being private online. They don’t consider the whole world or at least everyone with an internet access to be their audience - even though that is actually the case. They consider only their friends or the other users of the website to be the audience. Certainly, they do not give much thought to the fact that for example their parents, their teachers, sex offenders or the police could be lurking when the youngsters give out personal information or put up revealing pictures of themselves on the website.

Hitting the headlines
I few weeks ago I was interviewed by a journalist from a Danish newspaper. For weeks the journalist had been following a certain forum on Arto where young people among other things were discussing experiences with drugs. The journalist was appalled – especially by the fact that some of the youngsters openly wrote about what kind of drugs they had tried or even sought information about where to buy drugs. He pointed out that it was easy from their profiles to see the real identity of the young people; who they were and where they lived. I told him that of course I think it is a bad idea to do drugs and talk about it online, but I am sure that the involved teenagers had not thought about a journalist lurking the forum. The journalist wrote an article with the headline “Children tip each other about drugs”. However, he failed to mention the many other users who condemned and dissociated themselves from drug abuse during the discussion.

There is another recent example where young Arto users hit the headlines which I find worth mentioning. A newspaper wrote about the pictures that some of the female users upload on the website which the paper interpreted as ‘soft porn’. The article was called “Young girls strip naked” and in it the newspaper took a 14-year old girl’s profile as a baseline case. They showed both the girl’s user name and her profile picture – without her knowing – and introduced her as an example of a girl who strips and entices men on the website. The girl later wrote a blog post on the news paper’s website saying that she was in no way like the newspaper described her.

Everyone “googles” each other
Besides the possibility of unwillingly ending up as a news flash there is another aspect of being private online that young people should think about when using social networking sites or the internet in general. What one writes about oneself (or others) in a profile, a forum or a debate or the pictures and video clips that one uploads might stay on the internet for many, many years. One of my good colleagues, who is now a respected researcher, once had a friend who played a harmless prank on him on a website saying that he had 10 GB donkey porn on his computer. That was more than ten years ago, but still ‘donkey porn’ comes up as one of the hits when someone searches for his name online.

There is a reason why the expression “to google” has become a well-chosen phrase. Today, whenever an adult applies for a new job he or she can be almost certain that the employer will “google” him in order to find information that he didn’t include in his application. That is just the way it is; everyone “googles” each other today. Perhaps, as a young teenager who uses the internet and social networking sites frequently you should think about how you want to be perceived in ten from now. You should consider if you want to be associated with drugs, sleazy pictures, donkey porn etc.

So therefore, keep in mind your online identity.

Read more
Read more about my research on young people’s use of social networking sites on my blog: http://malenel.wordpress.com and read more about my research on www.arto.dk here (only in Danish).

« Un internaute averti en vaut deux » : the French awareness actions.

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The European Confiance project is an opportunity to valorize and coordinate existing awareness actions.
Few examples:

In France, thanks to B2i (Brevet Informatique et Internet), The French students learn to use ICT at School. One of the skills learning is “the Net responsibility” and the Confiance awareness tools “Vinz et lou sur l’Internet” help the teachers to teach the good behaviour on the Net.

Thanks to « le Tour de France » operation funded by the Ministry of Education, 300 primary schools and colleges participate to awareness training seminars. During its training activities, each teachers and students get posters, postcards and leaflets promoting the Confiance awareness messages.

During the next “Fête de l’Internet” (the 18th to the 24th of March), the theme is “Internet sans crainte”. All Net public access point will participate to this national campaign and will receive posters, postcards and leaflets promoting the Confiance awareness messages. Its awareness tools will dispatched to the public.


For more details, please contact :
Floriane NAUDIN
Confiance project
e-mail : floriane.naudin@ens.fr
www.internetsanscrainte.fr

Mecanismos de protección para los menores en el uso de Internet

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Internet ha revolucionado el mundo. El uso de la red ha abierto a los usuarios infinitas posibilidades de comunicación e información además de acelerar el desarrollo personal y económico de las sociedades que utilizan este potente medio. Sin embargo, a la vez que han aumentado los beneficios de Internet han aparecido nuevos riesgos que preocupan a los internautas y amenazan su seguridad.

¿Cuáles son los peligros?
La pornografía infantil, el engaño a menores, apología del terrorismo, el phising, la usurpación de marcas comerciales, los ataques a la propiedad intelectual, los correos electrónicos que contienen insultos, fraudes o chantajes, los virus y el spam son algunas de las principales amenazas a combatir. Y los niños y adolescentes son el primer colectivo que la sociedad debe proteger: ellos son los más vulnerables ante los peligros de la red.

¿Cómo proteger a los menores?
Es preciso alejarles de los contenidos violentos, racistas, xenófobos o pornográficos, del tráfico de estupefacientes, de las sectas, defenderles de los pederastas que pretenden contactar con ellos a través de Internet, del acoso o las amenazas que puedan recibir a través de los chats o emails además de los malware (virus y caballos de troya).
Para conseguir que los niños y adolescentes naveguen por la red de forma segura es necesario utilizar las herramientas de control que los proveedores y los navegadores proporcionan para este fin, pero estos medios no bastan por sí solos: profesores y padres deben conocer su existencia, su utilidad y aprender a utilizarlos para blindar a los menores.
Además de impulsar continuamente medidas de seguridad, Telefónica colabora con la Línea de Denuncia contra la Pornografía Infantil en Internet Protégeles (www.protegeles.com) y promueve, con el programa EducaRed de Fundación Telefónica, el uso educativo de Internet entre profesores, padres y alumnos.

Mecanismos de protección.
Al margen de la labor que desempeña para proteger a los menores, Telefónica dispone de otros mecanismos para defender a los usuarios de las intrusiones, diseña software avanzado, alerta a sus clientes de posibles fraudes, fomenta la seguridad en los accesos y colabora con la administración pública y con la Policía de los diferentes países en los que opera.
Casi todos los incidentes de spam registrados en Telefónica de España se deben a la existencia de equipos vulnerables que tienen agujeros de seguridad que no bloquean el envío de correos no autorizados, por lo que cada vez más es necesario que los usuarios de Internet protejan sus equipos y sigan ciertas recomendaciones.

Consejos
A la hora de utilizar Internet no se deben responder correos electrónicos de las entidades bancarias facilitando datos ni claves personales. No es aconsejable dar a conocer en foros, chats ni medios públicos la dirección de correo electrónico. Se debe sospechar de correos con faltas gramaticales u ortográficas –suelen ser malas traducciones de spammers. Observar qué páginas son seguras –las que tienen un candado o las que aparecen en la barra del navegador con https:// en lugar de http://.
Por último, ante eventuales problemas es preciso que los usuarios denuncien los ataques (Telefónica dispone de más de 20 direcciones de correo electrónico como abuse@telefonica.net).

Spain: Console viruses?

We have seen a succession of news stories about malicious code affecting numerous devices, going beyond the concept of the typical ‘computer virus’. We have had the first viruses for cell phones, followed by malicious code for cars with Bluetooth technology, then along came a virus for the Sony PSP videogame console, and a week later, one for Nintendo DS.

There is nothing unusual about the appearance of these viruses, sooner or later they were bound to appear. Basically, in the IT security world, wherever there is a programmable system, malicious code can also be created. All the more so in the case of complex systems such as video game consoles, which don’t just include a complete operating system, but also documentation for developers.

This situation should come as no surprise, and no doubt more threats of this type will emerge in the not too distant future. At least there is the consolation that it is unlikely they will be able to spread under their own steam.

In theory, videogame consoles are not open systems and new software cannot be entered into them in the same way as with a personal computer. PCs have been designed as general purpose tools, adapting functionality to the needs of the user by means of the installation of purpose-built programs. The same hardware can be used for, say, writing a letter as for cataloguing botanical species or for corporate accountancy; while a video game console has been designed for a sole purpose: playing games.

Similarly, unlike a game console, a personal computer also includes numerous devices through which information can be entered. It is true that latest generation consoles use common communication devices such as memory sticks or USB, IrDA and WiFi connections, but it is still not as simple as it seems to infiltrate these systems, and substantially more difficult than it is with a PC.

Software developed for videogame consoles (games) is designed to cause as few problems as possible. Under no circumstances will it try to exploit vulnerabilities, overwrite prohibited zones or multiply itself in the same way as malicious code.

For a user to become infected they would need to be the victim of some kind of deceit, i.e. being duped into installing software without knowing what it will really do. Although this in itself is easy enough to someone (who wouldn’t enter a cartridge or memory stick lent by a friend to try out a new game or demo?), what’s the point? The only thing it would serve to do is lose a friend.

Imagine another, perhaps more theoretical scenario: downloading software through the wireless link offered by the new consoles. Involuntarily downloading software through this connection could lead to infection. But in this case, the security situation is the same as in a normal computer, where downloading software could lead to the effects of malicious programs or unexpected errors.

Fortunately, the solution is simple: don’t be taken in. All software you run on the console should be original and certified by the developer. Activision, Game Freak, Blade Interactive and SOE are among the many game developers that take extreme care in ensuring that their software is the best, the fastest, the most spectacular and, of course, causes the fewest problems possible.

In short, the console itself is not a game. Regardless of price or capacity, it is still a computer and you have to take care with the software you install. If you do it will surely last for many years to come, maybe even as many as my Atari.

"Italia: Quali confini oltrepassare?

Le tecnologie di comunicazione e informazione raggiungono ogni giorno nuovi traguardi, superando confini e barriere di ogni tipo e offrendoci un potenziale enorme soprattutto sul fronte delle opportunità.
Il nostro rapporto con le nuove tecnologie online è in continua evoluzione, divenendo sempre più complesso e coinvolgente, costituendo parte integrante della nostra quotidianità: nel gioco, nelle attività creative, nelle relazioni sociali e nei modi di comunicare. Siamo immersi in una cultura digitale, che ci affascina enormemente e in cui possiamo essere protagonisti attivi...ma quali sono i confini che possiamo o meno oltrepassare?! Qual'è il limite tra legale ed illegale, tra diritto e dovere, tra libertà e prevaricazione, tra informazione e diffamazione?!

UK: The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) - the UK 'Hotline' for taking reports on illegal online content

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The IWF is the only authorised organisation in the UK operating an internet ‘Hotline’ for the public and IT professionals to report their exposure to potentially illegal content online.

Our aim is to minimise the availability of potentially illegal internet content, specifically:
• child abuse images hosted anywhere in the world
• criminally obscene content hosted in the UK
• incitement to racial hatred content hosted in the UK.

Through the hotline reporting system, we help ISPs to combat abuse of their services through a ‘notice and take-down’ service by alerting them to any potentially illegal content on their systems and simultaneously inviting the police to investigate the publisher.

We work in partnership with government departments, the police, the online industry and the public. As a result, less than 1% of potentially illegal content has apparently been hosted in the UK since 2003.

The internet provides a wealth of opportunity for all of us. However, such global technologies and innovative services can also be abused to facilitate the exploitation of children and the perpetuation of their sexual abuse.

Recent developments, for example, in social networking and online picture and video services enable a wide range of positive communications. These websites can allow easy, free, unlimited and anonymous posting of photographs which, sadly, provides an online medium for some internet users to abuse. Most of these sites are hosted overseas so the IWF passes details of those reports which breach UK law to the Hotline in that country, where such a service exists, and in every case, to Interpol via the UK Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre partners. If the sites are hosted within the UK the IWF works with the police and the content service providers to have the content removed and, if possible, the publisher prosecuted.

Young people should also be reminded that it is an offence to post online an indecent photograph of anyone under 18, including yourself. These photographs constitute child abuse images and, once on the internet, are accessible indefinitely.

The global nature of network abuse and child exploitation as well as the knowledge that child abuse websites regularly ‘hop’ server and host country, underlines the need for unified international efforts, transcending borders and legal jurisdictions. This would ensure action is taken quickly and effectively to have websites hosting child abuse content removed and those who publish illegal material traced and investigated.

The IWF continues its commitment to share experience, knowledge and practices with Hotlines around the world. We also look forward to helping to develop a European database of potentially illegal child abuse websites which will facilitate Europe-wide improvements in effectiveness and information sharing amongst hotlines.

For more information about the Internet Watch Foundation visit www.iwf.org.uk

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Spain: Equipamiento básico de seguridad en portátiles

- Un antivirus actualizado. Antes de salir de viaje, actualice su antivirus. Y cada vez que pueda disfrutar de una conexión a Internet, aproveche para actualizarlo. Un ataque por virus cuando estamos lejos de los responsables de informática de la empresa puede dejar KO a un ordenador portátil y, como consecuencia, los planes de su propietario.

- Un sistema de protección contra intrusiones. Tanto por redes físicas como por redes inalámbricas, los intrusos pueden aprovechar un momento de despiste o una vulnerabilidad para introducirse en nuestro ordenador y hacer de él su cuartel general.

- Un sistema de protección contra estafas. Podemos encontrarnos con que recibamos un correo intentando estafarnos, y estando en un viaje puede que respondamos con preocupación ante un problema en nuestro banco que no podemos resolver directamente, o ante situaciones extrañas con nuestras tarjetas de crédito.

- Un sistema anti spam. A la hora de descargar correo electrónico fuera de la red, evitar que el correo no deseado entre en el sistema es necesario para evitar pérdidas de tiempo innecesarias.

- Protección contra spyware. Nada más peligroso que un espía mientras llevamos a cabo gestiones remotas. Evitar estos intrusos hará que nuestras conexiones y nuestro trabajo no sean espiados por desconocidos.

- Un firewall personal. Bien configurado y sin concesiones a los extraños evitará que muchos hackers consigan entrar en el sistema.

- Sistema de filtrado a páginas web. Existen muchas páginas web con contenidos maliciosos que pueden desembocar en una catástrofe en el ordenador. Es imposible conocerlas todas, por lo que un sistema de filtrado de páginas evitará que sin darnos cuenta podamos acceder a algún sitio peligroso.

- Un sistema de protección contra intrusiones a través de la red inalámbrica. De esta manera, podremos conectarnos a las redes abiertas sin miedo a que alguien utilice este canal para inmiscuirse en la información almacenada en el portátil.

Spain: The virus yearbook 2006

We have published a list of those malicious codes which have stood out in one way or another in 2006:

- The most moralistic. This award goes to the spyware Zcodec which, among other actions, monitors whether users access certain web pages with pornographic content. This may simply be a way of determining whether the user is a frequent visitor to these types of pages in order to send personalized advertising. On the other hand, perhaps the author of the spyware just has voyeuristic tendencies.

- The worst job applicant. The Eliles.A worm sends out CVs all over the place. It even sends them out to users’ cell phones. It would seem that it has little confidence in its own job prospects.

- The most sensationalist. Sensational headlines have always made an impact, now they are even being used by viruses. Of all those that appeared in 2006, Nuwar.A wins hands down with its declaration of the start of the Third World War.

- The most tenacious. They say that all good things come to an end. It's a shame that the creators of the Spamta worms haven’t heard the saying. Otherwise, they might have stopped sending wave after wave of almost identical variants of this malicious code.

- The biggest snooper. In this case, it was not a difficult choice. WebMic.A is a malicious code that can record sounds and images, using a microphone and WebCam connected to the computer. Of course this is not the sort of uninvited guest you would like to have on your PC.

- The most mischievous. Nedro.B is a worm that seems to get bored after it has infected a computer. Perhaps that's why it decides to change icons, prevent access to tools, hide file extensions, delete options from the Start menu... and basically cause chaos. Maybe this seems entertaining to someone, but it certainly isn't for the users.

- The most chaste. Malicious codes that spread across P2P networks use enticing filenames in order to get users to download them voluntarily on to their computers. For this reason, many of these names have pornographic connotations. However, among the more than 37,000 different names used by FormShared.A, none of them make any reference to sex. That’s some kind of record.

Even though some of these may seem interesting, or even fun, users should steer well clear of the threats mentioned above or any others.

Spain: Phishing and 21st century tales

Nowadays, the Internet is a key reference for many aspects of daily life. It is one of the best ways of staying abreast of the latest news; it can be used for business transactions or even shopping, with web stores becoming increasingly popular.

However, as with all good things in life, the Internet is also a point of reference for illegal activities, such as child pornography, a problem that has been around for quite a while, but which has grown with intensity and speed with the advent of the Internet; or software and music piracy, which uses the Net to spread itself widely and rapidly.

When it comes to financial fraud though, the problem has not only increased, but has also acquired new forms. Swindlers, criminals and fraudsters of all shapes and sizes, from all sectors of society have been around for time immemorial. However, the Internet has helped create yet more, and with head-spinning speed.

The easiest way to obtain money is to steal it, and the quickest way to steal it is through Internet fraud. Phishing is now a classic form of stealing users’ bank details through emails, a con-trick which many unsuspecting users have fallen for.

Undoubtedly, users defrauded in this way would not have fallen into the trap if the attempt to swindle had been made differently. For example, imagine a well-dressed, dependable looking sort of individual approaching someone in the street outside the door of a bank's branch. This individual identifies himself as a member of staff from the bank (in spite of being in the street) and asks the other person for their credit card for status verification. It is highly unlikely that anyone would actually agree to this.

Credit card users are well aware of the risk of leaving a card in someone else's hands, just as children know that they should not accept candy on the street or open the door of the house to strangers. They know this for two basic reasons: because their parents have taught them so and because they have learnt this in many different children's tales.

Until recently, most people's social skills (such as not providing bank details) were actually based on children's stories. Unfortunately, there are no tales nowadays that warn of the dangers of the 21st century or teach the new social skills required today.

Children's tales are designed to educate children in a way that is not reliant on experience. It is much better to talk to a child about a shepherd who made threats about the arrival of a wolf than wait for the child to discover the consequences of lying, and for those around her to pay these consequences.

When Perrault published his tales, he always included a small text at the end of each tale, clearly explaining the moral of the story. If he were still alive today, it would no doubt be called “An Educational Guide for Parents and Educators”; however, in Perrault’s time, in the 17th century, morals were more popular than educational guides. The beginning of the moral of the tale “Little Red Riding Hood” is set out below:

“Here we can see how adolescents and, in particular, elegant and beautiful young ladies are unwise to heed certain people, and how it is not surprising that the wolf ends up eating so many of them.”

However, far from even a minor role these days, children’s tales have been all but forgotten. The tradition of oral teaching is practically non-existent and printed stories are used more to teach reading than for any moral purpose.

It would not be a bad idea to reproduce children's tales so that future generations do not fall for the fraudulent tricks that we adults are victims of. One could talk about hackers (“Little Red Riding Hood and the Hacker”), the problems of piracy (“The Emperor's New DVD”), identity theft (“Rumpelstiltskin”), frauds (“The Webmaster of Hamelin”) etc.

Shall we play?

Once upon a time there was a little girl who browsed the Internet in her home. She always had a very pretty red mouse with her computer, which is why everybody called her “Little Red Mouse”.

One day her mother said, “Little Red Mouse, I would like you to connect to the bank and make a transfer to the account Grandma has in the Cayman Islands”. Little Red Mouse connected and a pop-up immediately appeared requesting, for security purposes, that she enter her current account details.

Without hesitating, Little Red Mouse went for her credit card and connected to the site for security verification. When she entered the site, she saw that they were asking her for many things and started a chat with someone she thought was her grandmother, but in reality was the hacker who had fooled her with a web page similar to the bank’s…

- Grandma, why have you changed your server IP?
- For greater presence on search engines.
- Grandmother, why does the bank need my credit card?
- For greater security.
- Grandmother, why do you need the entry data for my current account?
- TO STEAL YOUR MONEY!!!

And Little Red Mouse had all her money stolen from her current account. When she went to the bank to demand her money, all the records showed that she had withdrawn it herself with her secret bank details. And as for the hackers, they lived happily ever after in the Seychelles.

Moral of the story: “We can see that not all web pages are as reliable as we might think, and the unwary who believe that banks verify data by email will end up in the jaws of the hackers-wolves.”

If we were to tell this story to our children, maybe in the future they would not let spyware be installed in their computer or send their bank account details to anyone requesting them in an email message. Can we not reassess the way in which we educate our children and young people?

Spain: Consejos para evitar el phishing

El phishing se basa en mensajes de correo electrónico que conducen a sitios Web maliciosos diseñados para robar los datos bancarios de los usuarios confiados. Roban contraseñas y claves para suplantar la identidad del usuario y los utilizan de forma fraudulenta. Utilizan el nombre y la imagen corporativa de compañías ya existentes, para así obtener la completa confianza del usuario para realizar el fraude. Por ello, es necesario cerciorarse de que realizamos las transacciones en Internet en entornos seguros y reales.

Lo primero a tener en cuenta es que su entidad bancaria nunca se va a poner en contacto con usted por medio del correo electrónico para pedirle ningún tipo de contraseña. Los mensajes de correo electrónico que reciba solicitándole datos o con un enlace que le lleve a una página donde le sean solicitados, bórrelos directamente, ya que es muy probable que se traten de mensajes fraudulentos.

Asegúrese de que la página Web que está visitando es realmente la de la entidad bancaria que deseamos. Hay que observar el dominio de la página para comprobar que no hay ningún tipo de variación con el correspondiente al dominio real de la entidad. Además, asegúrese de que está realizando una conexión segura. Para ello, debe observar que se encuentra en pantalla el dibujo del candado cerrado que nos indica la seguridad de la conexión y que la URL comienza con las letras https. También, en caso de duda, se puede comprobar que la certificación de la Web sea válida, haciendo doble clic en el candado.

Otra forma de asegurar la conexión en el sitio Web real de la compañía es escribiendo directamente en el navegador la dirección de la entidad a la que deseamos acceder, no a través de hipervínculos que puedan estar dirigidos a sitios Web fraudulentos que permitan el robo de datos.

Además, la revisión periódica del extracto de las cuentas bancarias sirve para cerciorarse de que no han existido movimientos irregulares de activos en su cuenta, que podrían haber sido provocados por un ataque de phishing. Si observa operaciones desconocidas e irregulares en su extracto, la mejor solución es contactar con la entidad bancaria con la que se han realizado las transacciones, de modo que se pueda detallar en qué han consistido las mismas.

Spain: El phishing y los cuentos del s. XXI

Internet es, hoy en día, la referencia a la hora de tratar numerosos aspectos de la vida diaria. Cuando surge una noticia, Internet es uno de los grandes medios para informarse. Si hay que hacer un trámite, se busca la manera de hacerlo por Internet; a la hora de comprar algo, la opción de la tienda web se contempla cada vez más.

Pero al igual que ocurre con las cosas buenas, Internet también es otra referencia en delitos y actividades ilegales. Por ejemplo, la pornografía infantil, que desde hace mucho tiempo ha existido, pero con Internet el problema ha ganado en intensidad y rapidez; o la piratería de software o música, que se sirve de la Red para extenderse rápidamente y llegar hasta el último rincón.

Sin embargo, cuando se trata de estafas económicas, el problema no solo se ha incrementado, sino que ha adquirido nuevas formas. Toda la vida han existido timadores de todo tipo, ladrones con y sin guante blanco y estafadores de cantidades diversas de dinero. Pero hoy en día, Internet ha propiciado que haya más y con mayor rapidez.

La manera más rápida de obtener dinero es robarlo, y la manera más rápida de robarlo es engañando por Internet. El phishing es ya un clásico del robo de los datos bancarios de los usuarios a través de correos electrónicos, timo en el que ya han caído muchos usuarios desprevenidos.

Estos usuarios estafados seguramente no hubieran caído en la trampa si el timo se hubiera hecho de otra manera. Supongamos que alguien perfectamente vestido, con un aspecto agradable, aborda a un usuario en la calle, en la puerta de una sucursal bancaria. Este individuo se identifica como personal del banco (a pesar de estar en la calle) y le pide alguien por la calle su tarjeta de crédito para comprobar su estado. Es muy posible que prácticamente nadie se prestara a hacerlo.

Los usuarios de tarjetas de crédito saben el peligro que supone una tarjeta en manos ajenas, al igual que a los niños saben que no pueden aceptar caramelos por la calle o abrir la puerta de casa a desconocidos. Lo saben por dos motivos fundamentales: porque sus padres se lo han enseñado y porque lo han aprendido en muchos cuentos que se narran a los niños.

Hasta hace poco tiempo, muchas de las habilidades sociales de las personas (como, por ejemplo, no proporcionar datos bancarios) se basaban en estos cuentos infantiles. Sin embargo, hoy en día no hay cuentos infantiles que adviertan de los peligros del S. XXI ni enseñen nuevas habilidades sociales, necesarias en nuestro tiempo.

Los cuentos infantiles buscan una manera de educar a los niños que no tuviera que basarse en la experiencia. Es mucho mejor hablar a un niño sobre un pastor que amenazaba con la llegada de un lobo que esperar a que el niño descubra las consecuencias de las mentiras y su entorno pague las consecuencias.

Cuando Perrault publicó sus cuentos, siempre incluía al final de ellos un pequeño texto explicando claramente la moraleja del cuento. Si hubiera vivido hoy en día, se llamaría “Guía didáctica para padres y educadores”, pero en el siglo XVII, cuando vivió Perrault, se llevaban más las moraleja que las guías didácticas. Aquí extraigo el principio de la moraleja del cuento “Caperucita Roja”

“Vemos aquí que los adolescentes y más las jovencitas elegantes, bien hechas y bonitas, hacen mal en oír a ciertas gentes, y que no hay que extrañarse de la broma de que a tantas el lobo se las coma.”

Sin embargo, hoy en día los cuentos han pasado no ya a un segundo lugar, sino a un absoluto olvido. La tradición oral está muy perdida, y los cuentos impresos se utilizan más para fomentar el aprendizaje de la lectura que para su fin moralizante.

No estaría mal rehacer los cuentos infantiles para que las próximas generaciones no vuelvan a caer en las estafas que los adultos sufrimos. Podrían hablar de hackers (“Caperucita y el Hacker”), de los problemas que plantea la piratería (“El nuevo DVD del emperador”), del robo de identidades (“Rumpelstinkin”), de las estafas (“El webmaster de Hamelin”), etc.

¿Jugamos?

Érase una vez una niña que navegaba por Internet en su casa. Siempre utilizaba en su ordenador un ratón de color rojo muy bonito, por lo que todo el mundo la llamaba “Ratoncita Roja”. Un día, su madre le dijo “Ratoncita Roja, necesito que te conectes al banco y le hagas una transferencia ala cuenta que la abuelita tiene en las Islas Caimán”. Ratoncita se conectó y de repente, apareció un pop-up que le pedía, por motivos de seguridad, que introdujera los datos de su cuenta corriente.

Ni corta ni perezosa, Ratoncita Roja fue a por su tarjeta de crédito y se conectó al sitio para la verificación de seguridad. Cuando entró, vio que le pedían muchas cosas, e inició un chat con la que creía que era abuelita, pero en realidad era el hacker que le había engañado con una página web similar a la del banco..

- Abuelita, ¿por qué has cambiado la IP del servidor?
- Para tener más visibilidad en buscadores
- Abuelita, ¿por qué necesita el banco mi tarjeta de crédito?
- Para ser más seguros.
- Abuelita, ¿por qué necesitas los datos de entrada a mi cuenta corriente?
- ¡¡¡PARA ROBARTE EL DINERO!!!

Y la cuenta corriente de Ratoncita Roja fue saqueada, y perdió todo su dinero. Cuando fue a reclamar al banco su dinero, en todos los registros aparecía que el dinero había sido retirado por ella misma, con sus datos bancarios secretos. Y los hackers fueron felices y comieron perdices, caviar y champán en las islas Seychelles.

Moraleja: “Podemos comprobar que no todas las páginas web son tan ciertas como creemos, y los incautos que creen que los bancos verifican sus datos por correo electrónico caerán en las fauces del los hackers-lobos”-

Si le contáramos este cuento a nuestros hijos, quizá en el futuro no dejarían que se instalara spyware en el ordenador, ni dejarían sus cuentas bancarias a cualquier correo que se las pidiera. ¿No podríamos revisar en qué aspectos formamos a nuestros hijos y adolescentes?.


Spain: The risks of Instant Messaging

Instant messaging (IM) services like MSN Messenger, Yahoo!Messenger, AIM, etc. are becoming more widely used both at home and in the workplace, and their popularity provides an excellent means of propagation for malware.

The inherent risk to these services lies in the fact that they are not only used to exchange messages, but also files, folders, and even entire disk drives. This makes IM services an increasingly exploited open door for attackers. Instant messaging services make things extremely easy for attackers, since users are not authenticated through an IP address, but an email address linked to a password. This means that even if the victim has a mobile IP address, the server that links the people connected will send each user the contents assigned to their names. As a result, the attacker does not need to know the victim’s IP address, it is enough for their name to be included in a contact list to infect them.

The fact that logging into an instant messaging service does not require IP authentication can also lead to identity theft problems. If an attacker accesses the server using the password of one of the contacts, there will be nothing to warn the targeted user that the person they are speaking to is not who they are supposed to be. If you share files with that contact, the attacker will be able to access them freely. What’s more, in corporate environments where IM is used, confidential data could be shared with an attacker in the belief that they are someone else. Identity theft is not as difficult as it might seem. It is enough for the target user’s password to be common or easy to remember to access their account. Even if that is not the case, given that the majority of protocols used by these services transmit unencrypted information, it is very simple to spoof an established connection between two users and obtain certain data.

We are giving you a series of instant messaging tips worth following. First, use safe passwords: passwords that are not too short, mix uppercase and lowercase letters as well as numbers, and which are not related to biographical information (dates of birth, anniversaries, names, etc.). Secondly, in this kind of communication, you should never disclose personal or confidential information, such as passwords, account numbers, etc. Don’t chat to people who are not on your contact list. Similarly, don’t download files or click on links that come from unknown senders, and, even if they do come from known senders, take precautionary measures before taking any actions. If you are using a public computer, do not use the automatic sign-in feature, as any other user of the computer could access your messaging account. Finally, in the case of home users, be particularly careful when children use instant messaging services; not only because they are more prone to opening files that might be infected or clicking on dangerous links, but also because they can establish contact with inappropriate or dangerous people. To protect themselves, home users and companies must use latest-generation antimalware solutions and keep them up-to-date.

Czechia: Nový evropský projekt mapuje rizika spojená s užíváním internetu

U příležitosti dnešního celoevropského Dne pro bezpečnější internet byla zpřístupněna dosud nejrozsáhlejší databáze výzkumů na téma dětského užívání internetu a on-line technologií v zemích Evropské unie. Databáze vzniká v rámci projektu s názvem ,,EU Kids Online", jehož se účastní akademické instituce z 18 evropských zemí včetně České republiky a který mapuje problematiku přístupu dětí k internetové komunikaci a současně rizika, která mohou být s tímto přístupem spojena. Projekt je financován z programu Evropské unie Safer Internet Plus.

Veřejně přístupná databáze, umístěná na webových stránkách projektu www.eukidsonline.net, umožňuje provést první systematické celoevropské srovnání dosud provedených výzkumů zkušeností dětí s internetem a on-line technologiemi. Výsledky srovnání více než 200 dílčích studií umožní jednak dentifikovat ,,bílá místa", tedy témata, na která by se měl budoucí výzkum prioritně zaměřit, jednak formulovat praktická doporučení týkající se bezpečnějšího užívání internetu dětmi a mládeží.

,,Jakkoli internet přináší nepochybně řadu výhod a příležitostí, máme k dispozici stále více údajů o tom, že může být pro děti a teenagery zdrojem rizika," říká Sonia Livingstone, profesorka Katedry médií a komunikace London School of Economics and Political Sciences a vedoucí projektu EU Kids Online. ,,Někteří rodiče jsou si toho vědomi, ale potřebují více praktických informací,jak se k těmto otázkám postavit, zejména vzhledem k tomu, že přesně nevědí, s čím se jejich děti na internetu setkávají. Dalším problémem je proměnlivost rizik - vyvíjejí se totiž přinejmenším stejně rychle jako samotné on-line technologie,"
dodává profesorka Livingstone.

Konkrétním rizikům vyplývajícím z kontaktu dětí s virtuálním světem internetu se přitom věnuje zatím pouze malá část výzkumů, které jsou součástí výše uvedené databáze; většina studií je zaměřena spíše na základní informace o chování dětí ve vztahu k on-line technologiím, tj. především intenzita a hlavní formy užívání těchto médií. ,,Doposud například nevíme, kolik evropských dětí a mladých lidí se setkává s rasistickými, pornografickými, násilnými či jinak škodlivými obsahy internetových stránek. Výsledky z anglosaských zemí naznačují, že to může být více než třetina dětí," uvádí profesorka Sonia Livingstone.
Podle údajů z výzkumu Eurobarometr v roce 2006 přitom jen 18% rodičů připouští, že jejich děti přišly do kontaktu se škodlivým nebo nelegálním obsahem na internetu. Zkreslené představy rodičů o internetových aktivitách jejich dětí dokumentuje i nedávný výzkum provedený agenturou Gemius v rámci českého projektu bezpečnějšího internetu Saferinternet.cz . Podle něj například 82% rodičů uvádí, že se svým dítětem hovoří o bezpečném používání internetu (což je více než evropský průměr); totéž však potvrzuje pouze 38% dotázaných dětí.

Kontakt:
Professor Sonia Livingstone, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. Email s.livingstone@lse.ac.uk

PhDr. Václav Štětka, Ph.D., Katedra mediálních studií a žurnalistiky Fakulty sociálních studií Masarykovy univerzity; e-mail stetka@fss.muni.cz, tel. 549496612, 739611034

Spain: Be careful with well-paid jobs !

Criminals send email messages offering exceptionally well-paid jobs, working only a few hours a day. This messages also include links that when clicked, accesses to spoofed website. What these criminals are really looking for is a “mule”, that is, someone to launder stolen money in exchange for a commission. To do this, the fraudsters deposit money in the “mule’s” bank account and the “mule" must send it to certain addresses specified by the fraudsters.

By doing this, the “mule" not only launders the stolen money but also acts as a scapegoat, who the authorities will go after when the theft is discovered. As a rule of thumb, users should never take any notice of messages that offer jobs or extremely simple and lucrative business opportunities, whatever they might be. It is clear that cyber-criminals will stop at nothing, and therefore, users should take all precautions possible. We recommend all users to delete any messages of this type that reach their inboxes. What’s more, they advise users not to provide any personal details that could be used for criminal activities.

Le succès du programme e—twinning en France

Nous avons en France 2 142 établissements inscrits sur le portail e-twinning, à la recherche de partenaires.
Les partenariats sur le territoire français sont au nombre de 528 pour 5799 en Europe.

Le positionnement de la France est excellent

La France se situe au 3ème rang (sur 28) pour le nombre d’établissements inscrits et pour le nombre de projets mis en place. Les partenariats ne cessent d’augmenter puisque pour la rentrée de l’année 2005 nous n’avions que 45 nouveaux jumelages, pour atteindre lors de la rentrée de l’année 2006, 179 nouveaux jumelages.

Les avantages des partenariats e-twinning

L’action e-twinning donne une pleine visibilité et reconnaissance à nombre d’initiatives qui, il y a encore peu de temps restaient trop peu connues.
Les partenariats ont enfin l’avantage de sensibiliser l’ensemble de la communauté éducative, enseignants certes, mais aussi personnels d’encadrements, documentalistes et acteurs au niveau académique, à l’usage des Tice et à leurs enjeux.

Pour plus d’informations, contacter :
Floriane NAUDIN
Tel. : +33 (0)1 58 07 66 71
e-mail : floriane.naudin@ens.fr
www.internetsanscrainte.fr

Spain: All for one? One for all

A few years ago, office application suites installed on computers were not like those we use nowadays. Each application was developed by a different manufacturer and in very few cases, was the idea of exporting data from one application considered.

For example, a really complicated task to carry out was to generate a mailing (postal mailing; 15 years ago the concept of an emailing was too futuristic) with data from dBase III, in a WordPerfect 4.2 document that included a chart generated with Harvard Graphics 3.0 according to data stored in a Lotus 1-2-3 3.0 spreadsheet. Anyone who has done or even tried to do this will remember it involving certain distress.

Nowadays it is much easier to integrate data. Office suites are available that process common data with incredible ease. It doesn’t matter if the data is in different formats, operating systems simplify data sharing, and even remote data is no problem.

However, it seems that we have taken a step back in integration of applications. The unification of data provided through office suites changes to absolute dispersion when it comes to protection against malicious code. On many occasions, a user has a specific tool to protect against spyware, another to delete adware, another to block viruses, another for Trojans and a personal firewall.

In the end, the same problems arise as those described above: operating problems between different software applications which, in the end, should do the same: help the user. If users have various security applications installed, they must learn to handle several applications to solve the same problem, malicious code. Users may well learn to use the application quickly (more applications are developed with friendly interfaces), but they have to switch from application to application in order to carry out tasks that a single program can do, and this goes against the concept of ergonomics.

Apart from the ergonomic problem associated to using several applications (which can often conflict with one anther), it is though that a specific application is going to do the job much better. Nothing could be further from the truth: is not that a certain software application does the job much better, but that the others do it badly. And in order to compensate this weakness, users install additional software, leading to a significant increase in consumption of system resources.

Obviously, it could be argued that the use of different tools is no more than a financial problem. A tool for deleting Trojans is usually free, at least for a certain period of time. From a financial aspect, it is certainly a good solution, but are you putting the security of your company in the hands of a freeware tool? Who will respond to any problem that arises? We are talking about security; a good service is fundamental when choosing protection.

What’s more, when securing a system, the best application is the one that lets the least malicious code enter the system, regardless of its type. Generally, if an application cannot detect Trojans, for example, but detects adware, it does not necessarily mean that it offers the best protection against adware. All it means is that it can’t detect Trojans. And therefore, it can’t detect viruses, spyware, worms or any other type of malware either. The developers of the application do not have a research center or resources capable of providing complete protection.

Let’s think for a moment about how spyware is detected for example. All it takes is a system that monitors information entering a system; this means that all the application needs to do is monitor the inbound TCP/IP traffic. However, email also travels via TCP/IP, but in a totally different format to an ActiveX control, often used by spyware. To manufacture an application that detects spyware and worms in email, developers must know how to scan email (as they already know how scan for spyware), which worms the application must detect and react quickly enough to prevent users getting infected. To do this, they need knowledge that very few developers have.

If a company has the capacity to detect viruses, worms, Trojans, spyware, adware, bots, spam, hoaxes and the rest of the threats that are fall into the category of malware, it can also detect any other types of code. All it needs to do is analyze it and apply the corresponding detection routine. And quickly! Reacting three days after a malicious code has appeared isn’t much use to the user.

To conclude, it is important to bear in mind that reaction time is vital to heading off malicious code. If an application that steals credit card appears, the reaction time is extremely short: as soon as the user receives it. Any delay could result in disaster, as the data will already have been stolen. Nowadays, users not only need a system that responds quickly to any type of threat, but also detects dangerous behavior, without a laboratory or response center needing to analyze it.

Technology has now reached this point, as any computer user (home user or the administrator of hundreds or thousand of computers) should not go back to the past. Security solutions are available for ALL TYPES OF MALWARE with detection systems backed by HUGE RESEARCH LABORATORIES and INTELLIGENT DETECTION.

Are you putting your security in the hands of shareware program designed to combat a single threat? In this case, your latest generation network (or just your PC) is working 15 years in the past.

Menores en Internet

Cuando yo era pequeño, tenía un sistema “antivirus” muy rudimentario, pero que funcionaba muy bien: se llamaba bufanda. Yo me ponía la bufanda y daba igual el frío, me despedía de cualquier resfriado. Incluso tenía un sistema de actualización muy efectivo, que se llamaba “mamá” o “abuela”. Con una simple mirada y la frase “¡la bufanda!”, volvía a ajustármela al cuello y así tenía un grado de protección muy bueno, exactamente igual que al principio.

Por supuesto que ese sistema tenía vulnerabilidades, y es que nunca he entendido por qué tenía que llevar gorro, bufanda y guantes, mientras que las piernas las llevaba al aire por culpa de un pantalón corto. En fin, un agujero de seguridad que nunca quisieron parchear (bueno, cuando me hice mayor, sí) los proveedores de soluciones de seguridad para el sistema (mis padres).

También me ofrecían protección contra muchas amenazas distintas que pululaban a mi alrededor. Por ejemplo, no me dejaban cruzar la calle con el semáforo en rojo. Yo, la verdad, no hacía mucho caso. En mi barrio no había muchos coches, y me sentía estúpido mirando a un semáforo sabiendo que no había ningún coche que fuera a pasar. Un día decidí desobedecer esa norma por inútil... ¡y nunca he visto tan de cerca un taxi!

Hoy las cosas han cambiado mucho. Los consejos y advertencias que dan las madres y abuelas a los niños siguen siendo válidos, en el fondo un semáforo siempre funciona igual, y las bufandas son las mismas. Pero un niño tiene a su alcance un medio de relacionarse con la sociedad que no existía hace unos años: Internet.

A mí me decían que no hablara con extraños, y no me cabe la menor duda de que las madres seguirán diciéndoselo a sus chavales hoy en día, quizá con más razón que nunca. Pero a mí nunca me enseñó nadie que no debo aceptar los ficheros que me ofrezcan por puertos no habituales, sin contar con un antivirus. Tampoco me explicaron que la barra de herramientas que me ofrecen como mejora del navegador va a estar espiando mis acciones en Internet. Evidentemente: Internet no existía.

El problema se agrava cuando los padres no conocen el entorno en el que se mueven sus hijos, y tampoco saben concretamente qué hacen. Un amigo me comentaba la cara de susto de sus hijas cuando para hacer un trabajo escolar sobre “enfermeras” hicieron clic en un enlace que supuestamente mostraba enfermeras en pleno trabajo.

Indudablemente, los niños deben usar Internet, y conocer todas las posibilidades que les brinda la Red, pero deben hacerlo con una cuidada supervisión de sus padres o tutores, al igual que cuando llegan a un quiosco de prensa no les dejarían a comprar determinadas revistas. Y no me refiero sólo a las revistas eróticas, que suele ser la primera idea que nos asalta a todos, ya que tampoco entiendo que se comprara a un niño “Scientific American”, o una revista técnica sobre cultivos transgénicos en las cuencas orientales de Mongolia.

Si los padres no son capaces de entender que en un chat pueden producirse abusos, o al menos conseguir que un niño se encuentre incómodo por una conversación con un pedófilo, ¿cómo puede el padre aconsejarle sobre lo que debe o no debe hacer?

Los riesgos en la Red no son sólo los virus, gusanos y otros tipos de malware, que suelen acaparar la atención de los medios de comunicación. Hay otros problemas que debemos conocer y saber remediar para que los menores puedan disfrutar de Internet, aprender en Internet y comunicarse a través de Internet. Quizá en el futuro nuestros hijos podrán darles consejos a nuestros nietos sobre cómo comportarse y qué hacer en la Red pero, mientras tanto, intentemos aprender, aconsejar y supervisar mejor a nuestros pequeños internautas.

Les bonnes surprises du Concours SID 2007 à Gif-sur-Yvette…..

Le jumelage franco-belge entre les écoles primaires de Gif-sur-Yvette (France) et de Bierghes (Belgique) a été l’occasion pour ces jeunes internautes de découvrir les avantages des TIC, leurs limites et leurs conséquences sur leur vie quotidienne…
La participation au concours SID 2007 leur a permis de prendre conscience de l’importance croissante des images dans leur vie et d’élaborer ensemble une présentation sur l’impact des images.
Grâce à une plate-forme collaborative, les élèves des deux classes ont pu s’échanger leurs images et discuter ensemble sur le choix de ses images, les raisons qu’ils les poussent à les aimer ou non, découvrant les potentialités d’échanges permises par les TIC (transfert de fichiers, envoi et réception de messages sur un forum…)
Ils ont enfin pu se découvrir beaucoup de points communs et les exprimer lors de la visioconférence organisée entre les deux classes. Face l’enthousiasme des enfants devant la Webcam, ce travail collaboratif du concours va se prolonger au-delà du Safer Internet Day…..

Pour voir la présentation : www.ecolebierghes.be/Insafe.pps

Spain: Parental control, another useful security tool

When parents ask for what is happening with their children's browsing I always give the same advice: the best tool is a trained parent near the children.

But in many cases, it's impossible. Parents should trust in the good wishes of their childrens, but it's not jus a matter of wishes. many threats and many hackers will try to cheat, and "something more" is needed.

Parental control systems keeps the non OK pages out of the children's displays. And if we have no borders, it should be a non border system, capable of stopping access to bad pages in your country, in your language or in foreign countries and languages.

Spain: Filtrar el mar

Por si pudiera quedar alguna duda, aclaro desde el principio cuál es el objetivo de esta columna: sugerirles que instalen un filtro de contenidos en el ordenador (o en cualquier otro dispositivo con el que se conecten a Internet: teléfono móvil, consola portátil, PDA, etc.). Sinceramente, me preocupa que en muy pocos hogares se invierta un puñado de euros para evitar que la inmensa mayoría de las páginas web con contenidos nocivos aparezcan en nuestra pantalla o en la de nuestros hijos.

Ya sé que hay personas a las que esta sugerencia les parecerá antipedagógica. Son aquellas que abogan por la mal llamada “educación en libertad”, esas que optan por no poner límites a la curiosidad de los niños; las que dicen que el niño debe experimentarlo todo para descubrir lo bueno y lo malo y elegir en consecuencia; las que alegan, en fin, cualquiera de esos otros tópicos que se han instalado en el discurso psicopedagógico actual. Lo paradójico es que, siguiendo dicha corriente permisiva, nadie nos aconseja que dejemos a los niños jugar al borde de una autopista o gatear por su asfalto.

He leído también que “nadar juntos es mejor idea que filtrar el mar”, bonita metáfora de esa solución ideal que evitaría instalar filtro alguno: que los padres acompañen a sus hijos en sus salidas por el ciberespacio y les vayan diciendo lo que está bien o mal. Pero lo ideal y lo real no siempre coinciden, y en esas excepciones se esconden situaciones de evidente peligro para los menores.

A mí me gusta más nadar en un mar filtrado, algunas veces acompañado otras en solitario. Para justificar este convencimiento les voy a poner una analogía, también con el mar como protagonista. Las playas de San Sebastián de vez en cuando sufren una plaga de medusas. Las picaduras de este animal son realmente dolorosas; incluso, dependiendo de la especie, pueden producir la muerte (para que se hagan una idea, los griegos creían que la medusa era una divinidad cuyos cabellos fueron convertidos en serpientes, capaces de petrificar a quienes los miraban). Cuando se detectan medusas en la costa vasca, pequeños barcos recorren la bahía de La Concha arrastrando redes que filtran el agua del mar y retienen un alto porcentaje de estos “peligrosos” cnidarios, evitando que puedan amargar el día a algún bañista despistado.

No me negarán que hay un extraordinario paralelismo entre las medusas y los contenidos nocivos en Internet. Y es que aunque acompañemos a nuestros hijos cuando chapoteen en el cantábrico (o en cualquier mar), por su seguridad –y por la nuestra- es mejor que el agua haya sido previamente filtrada.

Fernando García
Civertice

Spain: La protección desde el conocimiento


En esta época actual de constante y veloz evolución en el que se encuentra inmerso el sector de las TICs, Orange reconoce y tiene muy presente la importancia de la protección de los menores.

Así, Orange entiende que dicha protección ha de realizarse no sólo desde el punto de vista técnico, con el desarrollo de herramientas que permitan a los padres, tutores y educadores una mayor prevencion y control de acceso (filtros) a las TIC’s, sino también, y dado el impacto social y educativo de las mismas, a través de políticas de concienciación de padres, tutores y educadores sobre un uso seguro y responsable de las TIC’s.

Con este objetivo, Orange ha elaborado a nivel internacional una “Guía de Padres” que pretende ayudar a los padres a entender las nuevas tecnologías y sus servicios asociados, facilitando así que tanto ellos como sus hijos/as puedan sacar el máximo provecho y de manera segura a todos los servicios que proporciona Orange.

El desafío para los padres es asegurarse que sus hijos/as entiendan perfectamente y estén preparados para utilizar todas las posibilidades que las tecnologías ponen a su alcance, y Orange quiere ayudarles a conseguirlo.

Spain: Internet y familia

El Gobierno del Principado de Asturias ha puesto en marcha la iniciativa Internet y Familia, en el marco de la Estrategia para el Desarrollo de la Sociedad de la Información en Asturias, e-Asturias 2007. Se trata de un proyecto pionero en sus características en la comunidad autónoma, destinado a familias, niños y educadores y que persigue fomentar el uso seguro de Internet por parte de los menores.
Con esta iniciativa, el Principado quiere dotar a las familias de conocimientos suficientes para que puedan controlar y guiar la utilización de la Red por sus hijos y concienciar al colectivo docente sobre la necesidad de formar a sus alumnos en el uso responsable de la Web.
El rey de Internet y Familia es Superportal, apodado El superhéroe de la navegación segura. Es la mascota que da imagen al proyecto y está presente en todas las acciones que se desarrollan.
El proyecto tiene un carácter integral, con acciones globales y específicas para los diferentes destinatarios. Hasta ahora Internet y Familia ha formado a más de 400 padres y educadores a través de charlas y cursos de teleformación, repartido gratuitamente 100.000 boletines informativos y más de 900 de un total de 4.300 filtros de Internet para hacer de la navegación segura una realidad para las familias asturianas y ha visitado más de 70 centros educativos, que engloba a un total de 5.000 niños.
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Spain:Responsabilidad digital

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Leo y transcribo del periódico de esta mañana de lunes: “Un profesor y un monitor detenidos por abusar de niños y difundirlo”. Y continúa en la entradilla: “Grababan sus sevicias a los menores y las distribuían por Internet”.

Emplearé estas doscientas palabras que me solicita Protégeles.com para dos cosas muy simples:

Primera, para decir a Protegeles.com aquello de “me alegro de que existas”. Es el clamor de la sociedad civil, con el impulso de unos pocos, ante la barbarie de otros pocos y la indiferencia de unos cuantos más. De la sociedad civil, digo, y no del Estado. El Estado está liderando la lucha contra el tabaco y contra la hamburguesa XL… pero no esto.

Segunda, para recordar que ningún filtro es tan potente, ningún código de autocontrol es tan vinculante, ninguna ley tan dura como para frenar a un solo ciudadano en el libre ejercicio de su irresponsabilidad. Exijamos líderes responsables al frente de las cadenas de televisión, de los buscadores de internet, de los diseñadores y administradores de páginas web. También responsables como padres o como profesores en el desempeño de la hermosa labor de educar. Y finalmente. responsables cada uno, en nuestra soledad, ante la pantalla de nuestro ordenador.

José Mª de Moya.
Director del periódico PADRES Y COLEGIOS.

Spain:El uso responsable de las nuevas tecnologías, una prioridad para Movistar

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La telefonía móvil permite superar todas las fronteras y poner al alcance de todos variados servicios innovadores, acercándonos a la Sociedad de la información de una manera fácil y amena. Sin embargo, debemos asegurarnos que los menores hacen un uso responsable de estos servicios. Para ello es esencial fomentar acciones técnicas, educativas e informativas que les permitan beneficiarse de lo mejor de las nuevas tecnologías.

Movistar, consciente de esta necesidad, trabaja activamente en esta línea con distintas instituciones, en especial con Protégeles, a través de varias iniciativas como la impartición de cursos en colegios y en el espacio Avanza sobre el uso responsable de los móviles, el lanzamiento de dispositivos adecuados para los más jóvenes y guías de uso para los padres (Mo1 y Play Pack), con servicios y contenidos educativos (emergencias 112, sumacubos…), o concursos que fomentan los valores cívicos y de dimensión europea (www.yourvid.eu).

Coincidiendo con la cuarta edición del “Safer Internet Day” patrocinado por la Comisión Europea, los Operadores Móviles Europeos, entre ellos el grupo Telefónica, han firmado hoy un Acuerdo Marco para fomentar un uso seguro de los móviles por parte de los menores, con recomendaciones que deben implementarse en todos los Estados miembros europeos, sobrepasando así las fronteras nacionales.

¡¡Saquemos el mayor provecho de las comunicaciones móviles para construir entre todos la Sociedad del futuro!!

Spain: Chaval

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Cuando trabajas para los ciudadanos, en este caso los chavales, lo más gratificante es que te cuentan sus experiencias y te transmiten sus opiniones a través de canales de comunicación, como es el correo electrónico. A través de los email que nos llegan al portal de Chaval , programa puesto en marcha por red.es , organismo dependiente del Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio que fomenta el uso positivo y responsable de las TIC entre la infancia, tenemos contacto con miles de niños de todo el mundo, sobre todo de habla hispana, que nos cuentan como se divierten con los juegos y contenidos que publicamos y todo lo que aprenden sobre los beneficios y los posibles riesgos de hacer un mal uso de la red.

Internet es maravilloso porque nos abre un mundo de posibilidades y de sueños, nos permite relacionarnos con personas y familiares que viven lejos, crear, y participar de manera colectiva en numerosas iniciativas abiertas a cibernautas de todo el planeta. Entre todos, debemos contribuir a que valores como el respeto, la educación, el civismo, la generosidad, no se pierdan en el mundo virtual sino que sean un referente del que nunca debemos olvidarnos cuando “estamos conectados”. Nos encantaría saber que opináis.


When you work with citizens, in this case with kids (chavales), the most gratifying thing is when they tell you about their experiences and offer their opinions through communication channels, such as e-mail. Chaval is a program started by red.es an entity of the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade, that promotes the positive and responsible use of ICTs by young people. The chaval website allows us to hear from thousands of kids around the world, especially Spanish-speaking, who tell us via e-mail how they have fun with the games and content we publish and about what they learn about the benefits and possible risks of misusing the internet.

The internet is wonderful because it opens up a world of possibilities and dreams to us, it enables us to communicate with people and family members who live far away, to create, and to participate as a group in a number of initiatives open to the internet surfers of the world. Together, we must contribute to ensuring that values such as respect, good manners, politeness and generosity are not lost in the virtual world, but that they become a standard of conduct that are not forgotten when “we are connected”. We would love to know what you think.

Virginia Zabala
Responsable de Chaval
Chaval coordinator
Red.es

SERBIA: Safer Internet- Better Internet

There are about 1 million Internet users in Serbia. ( approximately 13, 3 % of its population without Kosmet). This number will grow rapidly. So will the problems caused by the Interne nature.
The origin of Internet safety problem lays in global network’s nature. But, this global nature is it’s advantage, too.
We want to show that problem of Internet safety exists. More internet users make this problem bigger, so in Serbia this problem is in expansion. There are not exact solutions for this problem. The best place to start discussion is Internet itself.

We are Antipiracy association and we shall take closer look on copyright infringement.

The Internet is loaded with wide selection of easily accessed content like audio and video files, pictures, software, fonts, articles, texts etc.
“Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author” reads article 27 of UN Declaration on human rights. New technologies make it easier to track down copyright pirates on the Internet. Copyright is primarily civil law, but it is also protected by criminal law. So getting caught can coast a lot of money, and there is also risk of charging with a crime.

Everyone has right to make a comment. Therefore we need your comments, experiences and ideas; we need to know about your awareness on this problem and what do you think what possible solutions are. Please help us to make Internet safer for us all. We are not offering you solution, we are inviting you to share Internet and ideas how to make it safer.

Italia: ripensare le nostre relazioni alla luce delle nuove tecnologie

I giovani interagiscono in un modo dinamico e molto personale con il loro gruppo di amici, con la famiglia e con gli amici online. Avendo un grande bisogno di comunicare e di essere inclusi in reti sociali, i ragazzi stanno ancora una volta oltrepassando i confini della tecnologia per creare reti sociali virtuali, che stanno trasformando il nostro modo di vivere. Questi nuovi contesti sociali e piattaforme di espressione rendono necessario ripensare i nostri valori in termini di relazioni umane attraverso l’intermediazione delle tecnologie.

Spain: Internet rompe barreras. Internet breaks barriers.

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Internet elimina barreras entre sus usuarios. Cada vez es más frecuente entre nuestros menores, no hay más que ver lo que está sucediendo con las redes sociales, que surjan amistades en la red sin tener en cuenta aspectos como el de la proximidad geográfica y donde compartir inquietudes, gustos y aficiones se convierte en la premisa fundamental.

En Protégeles en un día como éste queremos subrayar nuestro compromiso de cara a promover un uso seguro de Internet por parte de los menores, independientemente de la plataforma a través de la que accedan, PC, teléfono móvil, TDT, consola, etc.

Estamos decididos a seguir llevando a cabo campañas de información sobre un uso seguro de las TIC, actualmente estamos desarrollando una campaña en los colegios españoles sobre uso óptimo de la telefonía móvil.

Del mismo modo seguiremos tratando de erradicar aquellos sitios desde donde se ensalzan y ofrecen contenidos inadecuados para los menores.

Un ejemplo de lo anterior son las páginas pro-anorexia y pro-bulimia que tantos estragos producen entre ellos, avocándoles en muchos casos, bajo el reclamo de nuevos estilos de vida, a contraer trastornos en su conducta alimentaria.

La helpline creada por Protégeles www.masqueunaimagen.com, como claro ejemplo de la superación de fronteras, ha ofrecido asistencia profesional y especializada a más de 500 jóvenes de España y ocho países de Latinoamérica.

Otro ejemplo claro de superación de fronteras ha sido la creación de Protégeles Brasil www.seuabrigo.com.br Protégeles está comprometido a desarrollar su actividad donde lo estime necesario y sea posible.

Protégeles en el Día Internacional de la Internet Segura 2007 ha participado junto a las principales operadoras europeas de telefonía móvil en la firma del Acuerdo Marco promovido por la Comisión Europea para el fomento de un uso seguro de los teléfonos móviles.

Internet breaks barriers. It is more and more usual among youngsters to set up friendships through the Internet without taking into account geographical location, as proves what is happening to social networks . These new kind of friendships are based on the sharing of experiences, tastes and hobbies.

From Protegeles, in such a day as today, we want to highlight our commitment on the promotion of children safer use of Internet, regardless of the device they use to connect to the net: PC, Mobile phone, TDT, console, etc.

We are determined to keep on launching informative campaigns on a safe use of the ICT.

In fact, we are nowadays carrying on at Spanish schools an informative campaign on the best use of mobile phones.

We are also resolved to eradicate from the Internet those web sites hosting harmful or children-unsuitable contents, such as pro-ANA and pro-MIA pages, which lead young girls to anorexia and bulimia by describing those two illness as freely chosen life styles. Protegeles’ Eating Disorders helpline, www.masqueunaimagen.com, has been providing professional and specialised counselling to more than 500 youngsters both from Spain and from eight different South American countries, which is a good example on how Internet can break barriers.

Another example on how Internet can overcome frontiers is the setting up of Protegeles Brazil at www.seuabrigo.com.br. Protegeles is committed to act wherever is possible and it considers its work to be necessary.

Protegeles, in the Safer Internet Day 2007 and together with the main European mobile phone operators, has taken part on the signing of the European Commission’s Frame Agreement for the promotion of a Safer Use of Mobile Phones.

Slovenia:"Net generation – this is me too" begins with exhibitions

Safe-si, Slovenian Awareness Node, has invited all children and teenagers to present their view on information society in different creative ways. »Net generation« thus becomes everyone that contributed to the exhibition, votes for the most original contribution, sends an e-card, spreads the idea or just views the selected contributions at www.netgeneracija.si. »Net generation« is a message of young people in the society of modern technologies, explosion of information and virtual relationships.

The contributions are beginning their journey around Slovenia on 6th of February 2007 – The Day of Safe Internet Use. The first multimedia exhibition in Cyberpipe (Kiberpipa – Kersnikova ulica 6 in Ljubljana) will be opened at 15.00 by Mojca Mavec and will stay there available to the public until 11th of February. The exhibition will continue its journey to Laško (Šmocl), where it will stay from 16th to 28th of February. Then come Brežice (Mladinski center Brežice) form 9th to 23rd of March, and finally Kibla in Maribor form 2nd to 10th of April.

Please visit: Net Generacija, http://www.netgeneracija.si

The Netherlands: DIGITALLY AWARE: Politics - Crossing Borders

POLITICAL DEBATE ON DIGITAL AWARENESS

How digital aware are our Dutch politicians? Internet safety relating to topics such as privacy, online social service and identification, where discussed during a debate with prominent Dutch politicians (Martijn Van Dam, Arda Gerkens, Joop Atsma, Frits Huffnagel and Hans Franken). This debate took place during the Safer Internet Day in the Hague and ended with the Digibewust award being handed over to Martijn van Dam. The foremost goal of the Digibewust Award is to focus on the role of Dutch politicians in the ICT-debate and development.

Highlights of the debate:

- "The discussion on Safety internet regarding children also means that children have to learn to handle the freedom that the internet brings along". Hans Franken

- "The Dutch government needs to prioritise supporting the growth and development of specific organisations like the 'Kindertelefoon", that provide social help to children through online chat services and telecommunication". Arda Gerkens

- "The role of ICT in our educational system must be more strongly defined. In the case of capacity building, it is important that students learn ICT skills at an early stadium and gain awareness on the opportunities but also the dangers of Internet." Digiraad, Youth board of Digibewust

- "A digital gap will always exist. The challenge we face is not only related to means, but also to the attitude some people have by not embracing ICT." Martijn van Dam

- " What needs to happen is a structured government debate on ICT and its role in our knowledge industry. Politicians need to be triggered to independently contemplate on this matter and be pro-active". Hans van Franken

- "In the matter of Internet privacy, the challenge is finding the right balance between an open (tracking) policy and protecting the privacy rights of internet-users" Martijn van Dam

- "At this point of time society is in rapid development and politics is a pace behind, thats the way of life" Frits Huffnagel

- "Maybe the elderly can not bring over ICT literacy to the youh, but in the case of social literacy on the internet they can teach a lot" a public statement

- 'What we need is a Dutch political cabinet with a "Digibewust feeling and manner". Arda Gerkens

- "I hope that Martijn van Dam (winner of the Digibewust Award) will be willing to be the Digibewust ambassador for the coming years". Roger van Boxtel ( Boardmember Digibewust, former Dutch minister)

Jongerenraad reikt Digibewust Award uit aan Martijn van Dam

Den Haag, 6 februari – Vandaag is Martijn van Dam verkozen tot meest digibewuste politicus van Nederland. De DigiRaad, de nationale adviesraad voor en door jongeren over veilig internet, en de Jury van de Digibewust Award zien hem als boegbeeld van de digitale generatie: hij ziet de kansen en mogelijkheden van nieuwe digitale ontwikkelingen, maar wijst ook op het belang van een veilige digitale omgeving. De Digibewust Award is een initiatief van Digibewust en is uitgereikt op de Europese Safer Internet Day.

De DigiRaad en de jury van de Digibewust Award willen met deze prijs het belang van digibewuste politici onderschrijven. De award is niet alleen een beloning voor de afgelopen tijd, maar schept ook de verwachting dat in de komende kabinetsperiode de aandacht voor digitale thema’s niet naar de achtergrond verdwijnt. “Ik heb bij mijn debuut als politicus gesteld te zullen strijden voor de rechten en vrijheden van de internetgeneratie. Ik ben dan ook bijzonder blij dat juist ook de internetgeneratie mij deze prijs gunt,” aldus Martijn van Dam.

Voorafgaande aan de uitreiking debatteerden de vijf genomineerden (Martijn Van Dam, Arda Gerkens, Joop Atsma, Frits Huffnagel en Hans Franken) over onder andere (de toekomst van) online hulpverlening, internet in het onderwijs en anonimiteit op internet.

Oeuvre prijs
Hans Franken (CDA-senator) krijgt van DigiRaad en de Jury erkenning voor zijn bijdrage aan de juridische fundamenten van de digitale wereld en de deskundigheid, zorgvuldigheid, erudietheid en betrokkenheid die hij daarbij liet en nog steeds laat zien. Speciaal voor Hans Franken is daarom de Digibewust Oeuvre prijs in het leven geroepen.

“Martijn van Dam en Hans Franken kunnen worden gezien als de vertegenwoordigers van twee generaties. Franken heeft de fundamenten gelegd waarop de nieuwe generatie haar digitale ontwikkelingen kan bouwen. De DigiRaad en de jury konden niet anders dan beslissen om twee prijzen uit te reiken”, aldus juryvoorzitter Roger van Boxtel. Imke Leenders, vertegenwoordigster van de DigiRaad, meldt dat de DigiRaad het van wezenlijk belang vindt dat er vooral ook naar de toekomst gekeken wordt. Hans Franken heeft dankzij zijn deskundigheid in het verleden al heel veel betekend. Martijn van Dam is zijn politieke carrière in vergelijking tot Hans Franken pas net gestart en kan in de toekomst nog veel gaan betekenen.

In de jury van de Digibewust Award zitten naarst Roger van Boxtel (voorzitter ECP.NL en voorzitter Raad van Bestuur Menzis) Klaske de Jonge (directeur Consumentenbond), Toine Maes (directeur Kennisnet ICT op School), Paul ’t Hoen (ICTRegie en ICT Personality 2006), Hedy van der Ende (Govcert/Waarschuwingsdienst) en Herna Verhagen (commercieel directeur TNT Post).

What happens if somebody makes me comments that I don’t like?

Chatting is funny, but only if the others are funny friends. In many cases, the other chatters are not our friends. Somebody is hiding the real personality under a fake nickname. If they make any comment you don’t like, do not be afraid and tell it to your parents or teachers.

Spain: Malware crossed the borders long ago

Nowadays, many people realizes tha borders are not a barrier in the Internet... but many years ago, malware creators already knew it.

We should think that when opening a file from a far away country is as dangerous as opening it next corner. Viruses are infecting globally, but how many threats are active now? Check how the things are going on here.

Bulgaria: Online-competition checks children’s Safer Internet awareness

From January 30 till February 5, a nationwide online-competition ‘When I am Online’ for school children on Safer Internet rules took part in Bulgaria. 2,506 children from 1st to 12th grades from schools all over the country had the possibility to check their knowledge about risks in Internet and ways to avoid them.
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An online test at a special website with 25 questions and 4 possible answers had to be passed in 35 minutes by the participant. The questions were describing quite real situations in Internet with a focus on sharing personal data, really meeting unknown “online friends”, posting own pictures, etc.
The competition results were both alarming and raising hope. Alarming was the fact that only 166 of all participants could choose the right answers all 25 questions. It proved also that children from higher grades demonstrate less awareness: from 1st to 6th grades participants scored an average 18, from 7th grade – 21, but from the higher grades the average results were 16-17 right answers.
At the same time, the fact that in one week more than 2,500 children from all over the country volunteered to pass the test raised our hopes that the awareness is gradually rising. That is why the organizers of the competition decided to make the online-test permanent resource for children.
The competition was organized by the Applied Research and Communications Fund – operator of the Bulgarian Hotline , INTERMEDIA Foundation, the Association for Comsumers' Protection with the financial support of the State Agency for Information Technologies and Communications and under the auspices of the Public Council for Safer Internet .

България: Национално онлайн-състезание по безопасен Интернет за ученици

От 30 януари до 5 февруари в България се проведе за първи път национално онлайн-състезание „Когато съм в мрежата” между ученици от цялата страна по правилата за безопасен Интернет, в което взеха участие 2506 ученици от 1 до 12 клас от училища от цялата страна.
Ситуационен тест от 25 въпроса с по 4 възможни отговора беше пуснат онлайн на създадения специално за състезанието сайт. Всеки въпрос бе описание на възможна рискова ситуация в Интернет и целеше да провери доколко децата са подготвени да реагират в подобни случаи. Тестът трябваше да се реши за 35 минути.
Резултатите от проведеното състезание са както тревожни, така и олнадеждаващи. Тревожни, защото само 166 от участниците успяха да отговорят правилно и на 25-те въпроса. Тревожен е също фактът, че с нарастването на възрастта, спада и успенаемостта в теста – тя е над 18 точки от 1 до 6 клас, над 21 – за седмокласниците, но около 16-17 за по-горните класове. Очевидно децата над 15 години са по-склонни на по-свободно и непредпазливо поведение в Интернет. Обнадеждаващото е, че за една седмица състезанието привлече над 2500 участника. Очевидно все повече се осъзнава необходимостта от правила на поведение и самозащите в Интернет.
Именно поради това организаторите на състезанието решиха тестът да остане постоянно онлайн, за да могат всички ученици, които желаят, да проверят своите знания за правилата за безопасно ползване на Интернет.
Състезанието бе организирано от Фондация „Приложни изследвания и комуникации” – оператор на българската Гореща линия за борба с вредно и незаконно съдържание в Интернет, Фондация ИНТЕРМЕДИЯ, Сдружение „Потребител.бг” с финансовата подкрепа на Държавната агенция на информационни технологии и съобщения и под егидата на Обществения съвет за безопасен Интернет .

Spain: Let me use your computer!

In many ocassions, children visiting friend's homes find a marvellous way to "play" with a non secured or not enough secured computer.

In this case, the children goes to certain places or downloads materials that can be harmful. Nowadays the computers keeps a lot of personal information, and a non trained user (like a friend) can put it on risk.

If a strange user is going to use your computer, be sure he/she knows perfectly what is doing, and check what activities will be done on the "rented" computer. Your security and the others may be endangered.

Luxembourg - En route pour de nouveaux horizons !

fe.gifDécouvrir d’un simple clic comment on célèbre Noël de l’autre côté de la Terre; voyager par procuration en suivant le récit d’un aventurier solitaire; nouer une amitié virtuelle avec quelqu’un que l’on aurait certainement pas rencontré dans d’autres circonstances et découvrir son univers…
Internet est une véritable porte ouverte à l'AUTRE !

Tous pareils et tellement différents
Intolérance, racisme, xénophobie, antisémitisme, islamophobie... Autant de mots qui conduisent à la haine, à la violence et au rejet. Bien souvent, ce sont la peur et l'ignorance qui contribuent à laisser s’installer le rejet dans les esprits. Reconnaître que le racisme existe est un premier pas. Oser en parler en est un second. Reste à combattre l'ignorance et les préjugés. Comment ? En étant ouvert aux autres, en découvrant leurs richesses et leurs différences. Internet constitue un merveilleux outil dans ce domaine !
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Partir à la découverte des autres
Nous sommes tous nés à un moment et à un endroit particulier. Nos différences sont nos richesses. Partir à la découverte des autres, c'est faire un pas vers la tolérance.
Internet permet de voyager aux 4 coins du monde, l'occasion de découvrir de nouveaux horizons, d'autres cultures et d'autres croyances.

Le blogathon, une occasion unique…
… de partager nos différences ! petitweb.lu publie des pages spéciales consacrées au racisme. Destinées aux enfants, les surfeurs y sont invités à proposer des liens sur le thème « A la découverte de l’Autre ».

En voici déjà quelques uns:

Les couleurs de peau - Dans le Journal de Victor.
http://www.recre-action.net/article.php3?id_article=229

Religions et origine, un même berceau pour trois religions - aussi dans Le Journal de Victor.
http://www.recre-action.net/article.php3?id_article=225

Le grenier de Sarah - pour expliquer la Shoah aux enfants et découvrir la culture juive -
http://www.grenierdesarah.org/

Le site de France5/éducation - riche en enseignements ! A consulter régulièrement
http://education.france5.fr/

Le blogathon traversera le globe… espérons qu’il sème quelques liens sur son passage ! info@petitweb.lu

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_______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Pour en revenir à la sécurité sur internet, petitweb.lu profite également du blogathon pour vous inviter à tester le permis web, un nouvel outil de prévention créé par CASES Luxembourg , le portail de la sécurité de l'information du Ministère de l'Economie et du Commerce Extérieur. Safer Internet Day 2007 est également l'occasion de vous inviter à découvrir LuSI.lu, le tout nouveau portail du nœud de sensibilisation luxembourgeois du réseau européen InSafe.

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Slovenija: Samo nebo je meja

- Špela Kaše, Zavod MISSS (Mladinsko informativno svetovalno središče Slovenije)

Dandanes se meje med državami brišejo vsakodnevno. To nam omogoča predvsem moderna tehnologija, internet in vse v povezavi z internetom. V trenutku smo lahko povezani s preostalim svetom.

Imam veliko prijateljev in znancev, ki so trenutno v tujini in internet mi omogoča, da sem v nenehnem stiku z njimi. Nekdaj je bilo to veliko teže, pogovori po telefonu so bili neverjetno dragi, uporabljali smo navadno pošto. Sedaj se nam odpirajo nenehne možnosti z internetom, elektronsko pošto, klepetalnicami in skypom. S pomočjo vsega tega se nam svet manjša in meje med državami brišejo.

Med različnimi potovanji vedno spoznam nove ljudi, s katerimi želim ohraniti stik, izmenjamo si elektronske naslove in ostanemo v stiku. Tako spoznavam tudi druge države, kulture, vsakodnevno dogajanje drugod po svetu, kako ljudje živijo, mislijo, čutijo in to mi nudi neverjetne možnosti spoznavanja sveta okoli nas.

Odprtost in dostopnost na internetu pa ima tudi nevarnosti, saj omogoča hitri vpogled v naše življenje ljudem, ki to načrtno iščejo in nam želijo škodovati. Tukaj se pokaže druga plat te odprtosti in dostopnosti interneta, ki predstavlja nevarnosti, ki se jih sploh ne zavedamo. Pomembno je predvsem zavedanje, da ne smemo podajati svojih osebnih podatkov kjerkoli le-te od nas zahtevajo. Prav tako se je potrebno zavedati, da so gesla zelo pomembna tudi za našo varnost in varovanje naših osebnih podatkov.

Internet nam omogoča odprtost, vpogled v svet, okno v svet, prav tako pa se moramo zavedati, da tako kot zaklepamo vrata v vsakdanjem življenju in smo pozorni na nevarnosti, ki pretijo okoli nas, da si moramo zavarovati osebno varnost tudi na intenetu. Potrebno je biti osveščen o nevarnostih in znati varno 'surfati' po internetu.


Za več informacij si oglejte:
http://www.safe.si

Belgique : www.web4me.be: premiers secours pour les teenagers sur l'Internet

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www.web4me.be: premiers secours pour les teenagers sur l'Internet

www.web4me.be est une initiative de la plate-forme www.saferinternet.be, qui est soutenue par la Commission Européenne.
Sur web4me, les internautes jeunes et adolescents retrouveront des infos, des conseils et des liens adaptés à leurs connaissances, relatifs aux divers problèmes qu'ils peuvent rencontrer sur l'Internet: des images choquantes, de la cyber-haine, des sectes, des problèmes techniques, des arnaques etc. Le site fournit une masse d'informations utiles sur les risques et, en outre, apprend aux jeunes comment ils doivent les maîtriser. Le site contient également une liste d'adresses d'organismes, autorités publiques et points de notification où l'on peut signaler de tels problèmes. Bref, www.web4me est la référence par excellence pour des jeunes qui cherchent à surfer sur le Net sans soucis et en tout sécurité!

Contacts pour plus d'informations:
• Coordination de Safer Internet Belgique: info.fr@saferinternet.be - tél. 02/475.44.12 (Child Focus) - contacts presse: 02/547.06.04 (Crioc)
• Insafe: info-insafe@eun.org

Greece-Lithuania : The problem and the solutions about the safety of personal data in Internet

1. The notification of personal details of the user (full name, address, telephone, photograph, code access, e-mail etc) should be avoided.

The search in the internet is ensured by the use of specialised programs, the search engines, special programs, the so-called spiders (spiders), which "browse" the web pages seeking the texts and their addresses. Basic rules:

Supposedly the users know that, when they search in the Internet for a totally acceptable word, the results can lead them to completely inadequate web pages. The users often make click on the results of search without reading the description. The users can exchange messages between them, in which it is possible to attach files of any type. Even if most users are not familiarised with the use of Internet, the email users should be particularly careful and take measures of high protection as its widespread distribution and use renders it as one of the most corruptible services to malevolent users. The viruses

The viruses are usually stuck in the attached files of messages and they attack the computer of user, as soon as the user opens the attached file. Therefore the users never should open messages which come from unknown senders, particularly if these contain attached files (usually with acronyms exe, com, vbs, dll, sh, bat k.a'), containing devastating code (message of form html) that it is activated automatically while opening the email.
Annoying correspondence (spam mail)

In spam mail advertisements about undesirable to the users email products, services and websites as well as various other types of email may be included. This happens because the safety of personal data of the Internet users as well as the safety of networks is put in danger.
Also, in the Internet there are programs of fighting spam mails, which can install themselves locally and check the entering correspondence of user.

C. Messages of content (hoaxes)

Annoying type messages of electronic email:

3. "Intimidation": any type of chain letters that intimidate the user that something will happen if he does not also promote the message to other users. The essential danger from these messages is mainly their enormous distribution and, accordingly, the tax of accounts of users with useless messages.
The known antibiotic programs usually filter the enlisted messages of this type, while there are enough companies that ask from the users of their programs to inform them when they accept such type messages, in order to proceed in the suitable energies of briefing of their antibiotic programs.

D. Protection of Personal Data

The user of email programs should be particularly careful and never to report messages with his personal elements, as well as the numbers of credit cards or any other data. Programs as the viruses, the Trojan horse and the worms can "contaminate" our computer.
Implementation or opening of files of computer.

Implementation or opening of contaminated files that are attached in email messages. Opening or reading unknown email messages that contains malicious code. Opening or reading of contaminated web pages htm and html. Choice of good antibiotic program
Regular detection of all disk with your antibiotic program
Continuous renewal (update) the antibiotic program
Control of each disk/cd with your antibiotic program before you open.
Well-known companies offer the possibility of control and removal of viruses of your computer being online.

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The world society of information constitutes today a tangible reality, it surrounds us everywhere, filling us with her abundance, tempting us with promises and frightening us with her surprises. The imaginary world suppresses the time and the space, is always there for now and for ever creating a different and fleeting universe should change.
The Network opens an essential discussion with the entire society. The consequences of its accelerating application becomes perceptible in all fields: in family relations, in the psychological behaviour of persons, in political organisations, in the world of enterprises and trade, in education, in the way that we work and have fun. To us it offers abundance of information, eliminating the geographic borders of knowledge, joining the experiences of persons and globalizing their fables. In an effort of protection of personal life, learning, game, our electronic data and in the frames of ensured navigation in the Internet we summarise certain fundamental points which into consideration should be taken the beginners as well as advanced users, which are:

1. The notification of personal details of the user (full name, address, telephone, photograph, code access, e-mail etc) should be avoided.

2. The placement of the computer device (if it is possible) in communal space and not exclusively in the children's room encourages the use of Internet in family ambiance and it helps the supervision of web pages which the children visit. The navigation in the pages of world web is realised via special programs of navigation - browsers - (more usual the Internet Explorer and the Netscape Navigator) and it requires particular attention from the user, due to multiple dangers, so much for the safety of his computer, as well as for the safety of his personal data. The measures which can be taken in order to ensure as far as possible the navigation in the pages of world web depend :

a) on the services that the supplier of connection can offer (internet provider) and
b) on the actions made by the user itself. The search in the internet is ensured by the use of specialised programs, the search engines, special programs, the so-called spiders (spiders), which "browse" the web pages seeking the texts and their addresses. The texts and their addresses are assembled and recorded.
Via the use of other programs information is assembled from the texts, the type of which varies from machine to machine, and they are stored in databases, so as to facilitate its recovers is held. When a search is held, the database is initially with the use of keywords and followingly all the addresses that contain these words are assembled. The results of search, thus as they are searched presented in the user, usually contain the address of web page, a sample of text which means the words sought exist, a short description and the category in which the web pages has been recorded in the given search engine.
The way of correct search is one of the most basic skills that the user in order shouldn’t to be lost in the avenues of information and, accordingly to use as well effectively the Internet data. Consequently, it is the fundamental objective of education to render young people citizens of the society of information. It is said that a twelve-year old student can assemble today in very small time so much information, that a researcher in Middle Age would have assembled in his entire life.

Basic rules:

There are three basic rules which determine a concrete way of the user behaviour and contribute in the right search, so as to avoid the access in inadequate material or minimise the consequences when this happens. Each rule applies to knowledge skills:

Read, think and afterwards click on

Supposedly the users know that, when they search in the Internet for a totally acceptable word, the results can lead them to completely inadequate web pages. Even minimal experience is enough in order to convince you for this. The users often make click on the results of search without reading the description. Thus is a high risk behaviour. They should know that, before clicking on one from the results of search, they should read carefully the description of entry. If this description does not correspond in what they seek or if they are not sure that it will lead them to the link they should not click. As practise examples with results of search can be given to students and ask them to identify which ones of the entries would lead them to results relevant of their initial seeking.
The email constitutes one of the most popular services of Internet offering economic, most rapid and reliable communication with millions of individuals in entire world. To the benefit of connect with Internet the Internet providers offer the email as an additional service and it is accompanied by particular password. The users can exchange messages between them, in which it is possible to attach files of any type. This messages initiate from the computer of sender and, via the chaotic route corridors of Internet, reach in the recipient in within few minutes. Even if most users are not familiarised with the use of Internet, the email users should be particularly careful and take measures of high protection as its widespread distribution and use renders it as one of the most corruptible services to malevolent users. It is important we managed the address of our electronic correspondence with the same attention that to use our email account with the same attention as with our telephone.
Just a few of the problems an email user could face are listed below:

A. The viruses

The transmission of viruses via electronic mail is also their most usual way of distribution. The viruses are usually stuck in the attached files of messages and they attack the computer of user, as soon as the user opens the attached file. Therefore the users never should open messages which come from unknown senders, particularly if these contain attached files (usually with acronyms exe, com, vbs, dll, sh, bat k.a'), containing devastating code (message of form html) that it is activated automatically while opening the email.
It will be supposed the users are particularly circumspect even of messages that come from known sender, but with suspicious subject. For this reason preview of the messages in the inbox should be inactivated so as not to open automatically (in Outlook Express you select appearance of the windows of provision). In any case the control over email is imposed a good antibiotic program, which will be continuously updates.

B. Annoying correspondence (spam mail)

It is called spam or junk mail, which means messages with annoying or even unpleasant for the recipient content. In spam mail advertisements about undesirable to the users email products, services and websites as well as various other types of email may be included. This happens because the safety of personal data of the Internet users as well as the safety of networks is put in danger.
The user should be extremely careful not to reply to messages of such type even to those with the indication “remove me form the mailing list”; instead of withdrawing the email address of the user, the reply to this kind of messages confirms that the email address of the particular user is active which leads to the “bombardment” with greater frequency.
The users can use the filters that offer them most web mail in order to delete these messages, or more usually to regulate suitably the program of management of mails of computer (Outlook Express), via the choices that are given by the cards in the menus of the program. Also, in the Internet there are programs of fighting spam mails, which can install themselves locally and check the entering correspondence of user.

C. Messages of content (hoaxes)

Annoying type messages of electronic email:

1. "Warning": these messages alert the user for the existence of virus or other type of threat in his functional system and they consult them to take action, or they warn for likely attacks from viruses that actually do not constitute threat for the system

2. "Support": they present hypothetical problems of a person (very often they report cases of children that suffer from serious illnesses) and ask the mobilisation of as many long as more users as possible

3. "Intimidation": any type of chain letters that intimidate the user that something will happen if he does not also promote the message to other users. The essential danger from these messages is mainly their enormous distribution and, accordingly, the tax of accounts of users with useless messages.
Moreover, widely a lot of addresses of email are published, rendering their householders victims of each such type of nuisance. The messages of this press are often accompanied by the standardised phrase "send this message to as many users you know" ("send this to everyone you know"). In the case of "warning" messages they are presented as senders big and known companies, with a view to trick the user and make him entrust the content of message.
The user should ignore all the messages of such type, delete them without fear and, mainly, to promote to them in his acquaintances and it causes unreasonably panic. The known antibiotic programs usually filter the enlisted messages of this type, while there are enough companies that ask from the users of their programs to inform them when they accept such type messages, in order to proceed in the suitable energies of briefing of their antibiotic programs.

D. Protection of Personal Data

The user of email programs should be particularly careful and never to report messages with his personal elements, as well as the numbers of credit cards or any other data. Emails are one of the most usual targets of hackers of all kinds who can take all the personal details. Generally, it is good to change regularly passwords of email accounts. The management of web mail accounts needs particular attention; the web mail accounts are very practical and available form anywhere together with low indicator of protection for the personal details.
In these accounts the choice for memorization of name of user and password in the computer is often provided. Programs as the viruses, the Trojan horse and the worms can "contaminate" our computer.
They are transmitted in the following ways:
• From contaminated disk or cd
• Implementation or opening of files of computer.

Implementation or opening of contaminated files that are attached in email messages. Opening or reading unknown email messages that contains malicious code. Opening or reading of contaminated web pages htm and html. In order to protect our computer we should take the following measures:

1. Choice of good antibiotic program
2. Regular detection of all disk with your antibiotic program
3. Continuous renewal (update) the antibiotic program
4. Control of each disk/cd with your antibiotic program before you open.
5. Safety copies of all your files in cd or disk.
6. Frequent visits to sites of briefing for Windows (most corruptible operating system), where free of charge programs of correction and coverage of any possible deficiencies of Windows are offered.
7. Detection of each new file that "download" from the Internet. If you use irc chat, inactivate the choice of automatic acceptance of files and automatic implementation of files that they send you.
8. Select the complete appearance of files in your PC. Perhaps somebody sends you a "photograph" as photo.jpg.vbs. If you do not have this choice activated, you will execute the file which will contain anything but photograph.
9. Maintain and often renew a disk on re-establishment of damage from viruses, which usually offer the antibiotic programs. Here it should be pointed out that the stricter regulations of safety you activate in your computer, the more difficult access you will have in pages of Internet. The usual regulation of safety in web-browser is "intermediate".

With regard to the confrontation of contamination:

1. If you have been contaminated by virus and have installed antibiotic program, make complete control of all your disks (full system scan).
2. If it finds the virus, it will proceed automatically in the suitable energies, or erasing him, or erasing it from the remainder system.
3. In case where your antibiotic is unable to restore the damage, do not erase any other contaminated file.
4. Check once again the contaminated files with some other program, perhaps this has possibility of re-establishment that the first program dows not have.
5. Try to find from the Internet the program of removal of virus (removal tool) visiting the suitable addresses (here you should know the precise name of virus, so that you find the suitable for this program).
6. In case where neither your antibiotic, nor the special program of removal can "clean" your computer, you need to make format. In this case you should have kept copies of all programs that exist in your computer, in order to make next format any time you need it. Well-known companies offer the possibility of control and removal of viruses of your computer being online.

According to all the above, these constitute ways of protection of personal data at the connection in the internet, even if most young persons do not observe, he will be supposed they are known and they conceive from all, so that is achieved the reject of ugly situations, as when somebodies "shifty persons touch as victims ' the users of internet.

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Bulgaria: Important steps towards Safer Internet

What is the Internet to our children? What happens when the child is alone with the computer? Do we realize that the Internet is full of risks? Are we so cautious when we let children into the infinite world of information as we are when we first let them out into the street alone? The already traditional celebration of the Safer Internet Day provokes these and many other questions concerning our responsibility for child safety online.

It is hardly a surprise that this event attracts more and more supporters. While education is a matter of national policy, traditions and opportunities, children are the world’s legacy and the responsibility for their upbringing and safety lies with all of us. With regard to this, every national or individual action or initiative, aimed at eliminating harmful and illegal content on the Internet, is a contribution to the problem’s global resolution.

Safer Internet Day is a wonderful occasion to consider our contribution to a safer Internet during the previous year. For such a short time Bulgaria has made important steps forward:
- The HOTLINE for eliminating harmful and illegal content has been launched successfully; the hotline became a member of the International Association of Internet Hotline Providers (INHOPE).
- A Public Council was established that fights online threats and unites the efforts of state institutions, non-governmental organizations and business, in order to create a safer information environment for children.
- A number of projects have been implemented to improve Internet culture and the conduct of children, parents and teachers.
- On the occasion of Safer Internet Day a national online competition – “When I am Online” - was organized, the results of which we are announcing today at a SID 2007 press-conference.
State Agency for Information Technologies and Communications

Country Focus Belgium

The Combined Belgian node is a consortium of 2 partners including Child Focus and CRIOC-OIVO. It is a merge between the national Belgian Hotline, www.childfocus-net-alert.be and the Belgian awareness node www.saferinternet.be.


Child Focus

Child Focus, the European Centre for Missing and Sexually Exploited Children, is the national co-ordinator of this project and is a foundation of public utility. The mission of Child Focus, at both national and international level, is to provide active support in the investigation of disappearance, abduction or sexual exploitation of children and to prevent and combat these phenomena.
Child Focus, without any discrimination, always acts only in the interest of the child.
As a privileged partner, the Centre collaborates on a complementary basis with all official and private bodies at national, European and international level. The Centre gathers information, distributes it to the appropriate services and ensures follow up of cases entrusted. It participates in the counselling of victims and their entourage.

OIVO-CRIOC, Research- and Information Center of the Belgian Consumer Organisations

OIVO-CRIOC is a public utility foundation installed by the Belgian consumer organizations and subsidized by the Federal Public Service Economy, formerly the Ministry of Economic Affairs.

Its research department employs a number of experts in the following fields: consumer law and economics, products and food safety, health (food, medicine, smoking habits, ...), (young) consumer behaviour and sustainable consumption. Demands come from consumer organizations as well as from the local, national and European authorities. The approach is multidisciplinary. OIVO-CRIOC also delivers technical support to the consumer organizations in defending their interests, and participates as an expert or representative in advisory and consultative bodies. The results of all studies are given maximum propagation. They are the basis for changes in consumer's behaviour. OIVO-CRIOC develops campaigns to inform, educate and sensibiliser the public or specific target groups. The education and information service is always given special attention to vulnerable consumers. There's also a documentation centre with thousands of books, magazines and other documents on consumer affairs.


Contact:

Tom Van Renterghem, Project Manager Child Focus
Mail: saferinternet@childfocus.org

Links

Saferinternet Belgium www.saferinternet.be

Child Focus www.childfocus.be

CRIOC-OIVO www.crioc.be

Click Safe www.clicksafe.be

Report illegal content http://www.childfocus-net-alert.be/uk/UK_homepage.htm

SPAIN: Online Protection of Children

One of the principles making up the Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Child refers to giving minors special protection in order that they can develop physically, mentally, morally, spiritually, and socially in a healthy and normal manner and in conditions of freedom and dignity. If we apply this precept to the Internet, there is a clear need to promote its resources in the most responsible way possible. According to a study published recently by the Observatorio de las Telecomunicaciones y de la Sociedad de la Información de Red [Telecommunications and Online Information Society Observatory], part of the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce, almost half of all Spaniards (48%) use the Internet and over a third of Spanish homes (36•8%) have an Internet connection. Against this background, 64% of 11-year-old Spanish children browse the Internet unsupervised and only 12% browse with a content filter, according to another report produced by researchers at the Universidad de Navarra, based on a study of 4000 schoolchildren from around Spain.

The Spanish NGO Protégeles [Protect Them] highlights the fact that 16% of young “internauts” have arranged to meet up with a stranger and 36% admit to having provided personal details (telephone number and address) to unknown people. Another study, Seguridad Infantil y Costumbres de los menores en Internet [Child safety and the habits of minors on the Internet] published in Spain by the Defensor del Menor [Children’s Ombudsman], reveals the browsing habits of a sample of children aged between 10 and 18: 28% say they have accessed pornographic pages — at present there are approximately 189 million websites with sexual content —, 38% admit to looking at pages dedicated to violent content, and 16% say they have visited racist or xenophobic sites. On top of this, it has been shown that the increasing number of cases of addiction to the Internet amongst younger people is distancing them from everyday life and, as a result, from their social environment.
When it comes to Internet use on cell phones, the dangers are no less real. According to Protégeles, 9% of children between the ages of 11 and 17 owning a handset have received pornographic images, 7% say they have chatted with strangers and 18% admit to having felt harassed through their mobile device. At the same time, it is becoming increasingly common to receive unwanted messages, known as “spam”. Of particular concern are those that encourage people to take part in competitions and casino-style games. In this regard, 72% say they have received SMSs inviting them to take part in draws or games of chance.
Given these trends and on a day such as today, International Safer Internet Day, we must appeal to all parts of society responsible for the protection of minors to focus their efforts on this duty, employing two main strategies: education and technology. Education should be focused on raising awareness and consciousness among parents and educators of the need to set a series of basic safety rules and to promote responsible use of the Internet, placing particular emphasis on preventing the most hazardous situations. The technological approach, based around Service Providers and Operators, regards the provision of parental control tools that ensure the Internet can be used to its full potential, as happens in countries such as France or the United Kingdom.
As security experts, we want to convey a positive and supportive message on the use of New Technologies, informing people about the opportunities their effective use can provide for the creation of a better society and placing them at the service of everyone wishing to benefit from what they have to offer.
Ana Luisa Rotta. European Project Director. Optenet

CÓMO PROTEGER A LA INFANCIA EN LA RED
Uno de los principios recogidos en la Declaración Universal de los Derechos del Niño alude a la protección especial del menor como garantía de su desarrollo físico, mental, moral, espiritual y social en forma saludable y normal, así como en condiciones de libertad y dignidad. Si aplicamos este precepto al ámbito de Internet, la necesidad de promover sus recursos en la vertiente más responsable es más que evidente. Según un estudio reciente publicado por el Observatorio de las Telecomunicaciones y de la Sociedad de la Información de Red.es, perteneciente al Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio, casi la mitad de la población española (el 48%) navega por la Red y más de una tercera parte de sus hogares (el 36,8%) está conectada. En este contexto, un 64% de los niños españoles de 11 años navegan sin tutela, y sólo en un 12% de los casos lo hacen con un filtro de contenidos, según otro informe elaborado por profesores de la Universidad de Navarra entre 4.000 escolares de diversas ciudades españolas.
Más datos. La ONG española Protégeles apunta que un 16% de jóvenes internautas ha concertado ya una cita con algún desconocido, y un 36% reconoce haber facilitado sus datos personales (teléfono y dirección) a extraños. En esta línea, el estudio Seguridad Infantil y Costumbres de los menores en Internet divulgado en España por el Defensor del Menor sobre una muestra de menores de edades comprendidas entre 10 y 18 años, pone de manifiesto sus preferencias de navegación: un 28% reconoce haber entrado en páginas de pornografía –actualmente existen aproximadamente 189 millones de sitios web con contenido sexual-, un 38% admite hacer lo propio en lo que respecta a páginas de contenido expresamente violento, y un 16% afirma haber visitado sitios racistas o xenófobos. Como problema añadido, se ha demostrado que el aumento de casos de adicción a Internet entre la población más joven provoca en este colectivo un alejamiento de la realidad diaria y, en consecuencia, de su entorno.
En lo que respecta al uso de Internet vía móvil, las amenazas no se quedan atrás. Según Protégeles, un 9% de los menores de entre 11 y 17 años con terminal dice haber recibido imágenes pornográficas, otro 7% afirma haber chateado con desconocidos y un 18% reconoce haberse sentido acosado a través de su dispositivo inalámbrico. Paralelamente, cada día es más frecuente la recepción de mensajes no deseados o spam. Preocupan especialmente aquellos que incitan a participar en concursos y juegos tipo “casino”. En esta línea, un 72% afirma haber recibido SMS invitándoles a participar en sorteos o en prácticas de azar.
Dadas estas tendencias, es nuestro deber apelar en un día como hoy en el que se celebra el Día Internacional de Internet Segura, a la responsabilidad de todos los agentes sociales implicados en la protección del menor para centrar todos los esfuerzos para su protección, tomando como referencia dos líneas de actuación: la educativa, enfocada a la sensibilización y concienciación de padres y educadores sobre la necesidad de transmitir una serie de normas básicas de seguridad y un uso responsable de Internet, haciendo especial hincapié en la prevención de las situaciones más conflictivas. Y la tecnológica, enfocada a los Proveedores de Servicios y Operadores y Operadores, para que faciliten herramientas de control parental que garanticen un uso eficiente de la Red, tal y como está ocurriendo en países como Francia o Gran Bretaña.
Ana Luisa Rotta. European Project Director. Optenet

Denmark: Safer Internet Day 2007 in Denmark

- Karsten Gynther, Chairman of the Media Council for Children and Young People

In the Danish Media Council for Children and Young People we strive to educate and raise the awareness of children and young people in regards to the new media. And the annual event Safer Internet Day makes up a very important part of this task.

Being a part of an international campaign like Safer Internet Day gives us – first of all – an opportunity to bring our important task of educating children and young people to a safer use of the internet and other new media into the focus of the broad public. Secondly, it gives us the opportunity to offer e.g. schoolteachers a number of concrete learning tools for use in the Danish schools. This year, for example they are offered project-kits in connection to the Insafe school-competition. Thirdly, this day gives us the opportunity to draw attention to all the other material that is already developed and that is available for teachers and others involved in the field of children and media

Denmark: Cyberhus

- Anni Marquard, Project Manager, Cyberhus.dk

www.Cyberhus.dk is a Danish online community for young people that offers a wide range of activities.

Kids and teens with social or emotional problems can get in touch with a pedagogically trained counsellor and receive professional counselling. We offer 100 per cent anonymity to every child or teenager who contacts us.

Our vision is to create a solidary socio-pedagogical community on the Internet in which we offer free anonymous counselling, as well as inclusive and collective activities for exposed and socially challenged children and teenagers

We find it very important that children and teens get to play an active role in Cyberhus. Therefore we have chosen to appoint kids who are very active on the site as book critics, web editors or writers, etc. We call them The CyberActive and they run their own weblogs where they write about things that interest kids and teens today.

Kids and teens may also enjoy a lot of cheerful activities in Cyberhus:
They can search our library and find new book titles, read and write film reviews in our Film Workshop, write messages in the forum and do lots an lots of other things that make it easier and a little more fun to be a kid or a teen today.

For Safer Internet Day we have worked on the theme “Power of the Image” where a group of young people have been taken pictures and put them on our website. Look at their work here : http://www.cyberhus.dk/site/14844.htm

Denmark: School Culture - Media Culture

- Birgitte Tufte, Professor, Copenhagen Business School

”If we want to qualify Tomorrow’s adults to relate selectively and critically, one of the means is to provide children and young people of today with the insight and competence to look behind the media’s prioritising of narrations about the near and distant world- and to teach them to act both critically selective and creatively constructive when they engage in use of the media. A premise for this to happen is the goodwill of our politicians both in concern to attitude and economy to strengthen the IT and Media education. In that way the media culture of the leisure-sphere and the culture of school will merge, which is a premise for us to solve the task of general education and cultivation, which is essential for the development of children and young people today." - Christensen og Tufte: ”Skolekultur. Mediekultur - Modspil eller medspil?”, 2005

”Ønsker man at kvalificere morgendagens voksne til at forholde sig udvælgende og kritisk, er et af midlerne, at børn og unge af i dag får indsigt i og kommer bagom mediernes prioritering af fortællinger om den nære og den fjerne verden og lærer at forholde sig kritisk søgende og kreativt skabende i forhold til medierne” En forudsætning for, at dette kan lykkes, er, at der fra politisk hold er velvilje, såvel holdningsmæssigt som økonomisk, til at styrke medie- og it-undervisningen. Dermed vil fritidens mediekultur og skolens kultur kunne spille sammen, hvilket er en forudsætning for at løse den dannelsesopgave, der er afgørende for børns og unges udvikling i dag" - Christensen og Tufte: ”Skolekultur. Mediekultur - Modspil eller medspil?”, 2005

Germany: Das Thema „Sicherheit im Netz“ geht jeden etwas an!

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Internet ist ein großartiges Medium. Es bietet die bunte und reiche Welt weltweiter Information und Kommunikation. Neben dem offensiven Nutzen dieser Chancen müssen aber auch die Gefahren benannt und vermittelt werden. Hier leisten viele Stellen inzwischen eine gute Arbeit. Klicksafe, der deutsche Informationsknotenpunkt des Safer Internet Programms der Europäischen Union, will diese Informations- und Aufklärungsarbeit voranbringen. Der Safer Internet Day ist ein wunderbarer Aktionstag, der bewusst macht: Das Thema „Sicherheit im Netz“ geht jeden etwas an! Wissen Erwachsene, mit welchen Inhalten ihr Nachwuchs im Netz konfrontiert ist? Welche Tipps beim Surfen können Kindern und Jugendlichen an die Hand gegeben werden? Zahlreiche Aktionen und Veranstaltungen deutschlandweit –Teilnahme an unserer großen Schulhofaktion, Mit-Bloggen beim weltweiten Blog-Marathon oder die Ausstrahlung unseres Spot-Klassikers "Wo ist Klaus?" - rücken das Thema „Sicherheit im Netz“ in den Fokus der Öffentlichkeit. Der Safer Internet Day ist ein guter Baustein für eine nachhaltige Aufklärungskampagne rund ums Internet.
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Manfred Helmes, klicksafe-Koordination, Direktor der Landeszentrale für Medien und Kommunikation (LMK) Rheinland-Pfalz, Mitglied der Kommission für Jugendmedienschutz (KJM)

Denmark: Abusive images crossing borders

- Marianne Pihl, Project coordinator in Save the Children Denmark

The Internet and the ability to communicate online is truly the biggest revolution since the telephone was invented. For many children, online communication is just a part of everyday life. It doesn’t really matter if their favourite social networking site is based in their own country – or at the other side of the world. Danish children watch videos made by Japanese children or exchange pictures with children in Brazil. The advantages of the internet have changed our societies and our way of thinking.
Unfortunately there is a downside of the online freedom of the internet. We know today that the Internet is being used by people with a sexual interest in children. Children are being groomed online and images of sexual abuse of children are being exchanged online. And it happens every day. Only yesterday there was a story in a Danish newspaper about a 13-year old girl who was sexually abused after months of grooming by a 50-year old man. And only last week there was a story about a Swedish man who was arrested with more than one million abusive images on his computers.   
The existence of child abuse images is of major concern of Save the Children. In October 2006, Save the Children Europe launched the report: Visible Evidence– Forgotten Children. The report focuses on the victims on the abusive images and finds that too little is currently being achieved in identifying these children. It is a fact that very few children abused for the production of child abuse images are being identified despite the existence of primary evidence within the abusive images. Interpol’s Child Abuse Image database has been in operational use since 2001 and consists of more than 200.000 images showing the sexual abuse of over 20.000 individual children. According to Interpol, only a little more than 500 of these sexually abused children have been identified and become subject to child protection measures.
In Save the Children’s experience there are four main reasons why current investigations fail to identify victims:
• Law enforcement officers lack the mandate, support and technical resources to take effective ownership of identification of online abuse victims
• There is a lack of inter-agency Cooperation
• Very few children disclose the abuse
• There is limited knowledge about child abuse images among child welfare professional and law enforcement officers
 
Save the Children’s report “Visible evidence – forgotten children” puts forward recommendations to ensure a focus on the victims of child pornography.
Download the report from http://www.savethechildren.net/alliance/resources/reports/VisibleEvidence.pdf.
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Denmark: Parenting is fun and takes time

- Lisbeth Krabbe Haugstrup, Family Consultant, KLF- Church and Media

Our most important message is:
Take the time to get involved with what your children find interesting – the media. Two of the most popular communication platforms are chat rooms or virtual meeting rooms, and cell phones. Children can communicate with the entire world, just like that. It is beautiful and great fun. However, from everyday life adults - even within the same culture - acknowledge the need for courses in how to communicate better. Also, we are told that most communication is passed through body language. These facts show us how easily communication through media can go wrong. You are using fewer words and often you can not see, hear, smell or touch the other person. Moreover, you are able to hide your true identity.

What to do
- We recommend that parents take the time to learn a few of the many ways their children use media in order to maintain a close relation with their children, and in order to discuss the differences between communication in real life and through media.
- The two main issues are: Protecting Yourself by limiting the amount of personal information you give out in virtual life and protecting others by choosing your words carefully, before you touch the “send” button.

After almost a decade of experience with counselling parents about their children’s use of media through folders, websites etc., it seems that the most efficient way of passing the message is meeting the parents face to face. Once again, communication in real life versus virtual communication has some indisputable advantages.

We believe that for children to have a constructive use of media they must have a healthy and close relation with their parents.

KLF, Kirke & Medier is a media user organisation founded on a Christian Lutheran perspective on life. The organisation has got 30.000 paying members throughout Denmark. The employees and voluntary workers of the organisation strive to assure that the content, the framework and the use of the media products that are available in Denmark are in accordance with our view on human life.

Lisbeth Krabbe Haugstrup
Family Consultant in KLF, Kirke & Medier
Grønnegade 6, 3.
7100 Vejle
Denmark

Council of Europe: Crossing Borders

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Crossing borders is inextricably linked with the Council of Europe’s ideals and heritage (i.e. closer unity between peoples based on values, rights, freedoms and democracy) and the Internet is becoming an increasingly important means to exercise and implement them. For example, this Blogathon is an excellent example of everyone’s right to freedom of expression and information, a right which includes the freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas regardless of frontiers.

For children, the Internet is a source of fun, a new way to create and to communicate, a means to explore and satisfy curiosity. It holds the key to crossing the borders and frontiers of their everyday lives allowing them to go beyond their physical environments of families and friends, home and school, using, for example, blogs and social networking sites to express and inform themselves in new ways.

In the classroom, the abundance of free online resources and spaces to learn and discuss makes the Internet an excellent tool for learning and empowering both children and their educators allowing them to go far beyond the paper borders of textbooks, often limited and costly. Within a coherent framework of literacy and training for children in online environments, the Internet opens the door to life skills and capabilities (knowledge, understanding, attitudes, human rights values and behaviour) that children need to live, actively participate and act responsibly with respect to the rights of others.

Used properly the Internet helps children to become more discerning and objective with regard to their consumption of different media sources allowing them to go beyond the paper and electronic borders of magazines, television and radio. In this context, more serious societal issues and borders can be addressed and crossed, especially as regards those peoples and communities divided by differences be it racial, cultural or otherwise. In these situations, the Internet also acts as a neutral space for dialogue and peace.

In conclusion, the Internet is, by its very nature, a tool which can build the bridges and straddle the borders of many aspects of our lives. It can also carry the values and freedoms which mean so much to us all and which lie at the core of the Council of Europe.

Mrs Maud de Boer-Buquicchio
Deputy Secretary General
Council of Europe

Useful links:

http://www.coe.int
http://www.coe.int/t/e/SG/SGA/Personal/Biography.asp
http://alldifferent-allequal.info/
http://www.coe.int/T/E/Cultural_Co-operation/Youth/
http://www.coe.int/T/E/Cultural%5FCo%2Doperation/education/
http://www.coe.int/T/E/Human_Rights/Media/hbk_en.html
http://www.coe.int/T/TransversalProjects/Children/Default_en.asp

Belgique : www.web4me.be: premiers secours pour les teenagers sur l'Internet

www.web4me.be: premiers secours pour les teenagers sur l'Internet

www.web4me.be est une initiative de la plate-forme www.saferinternet.be, qui est soutenue par la Commission Européenne.
Sur web4me, les internautes jeunes et adolescents retrouveront des infos, des conseils et des liens adaptés à leurs connaissances, relatifs aux divers problèmes qu'ils peuvent rencontrer sur l'Internet: des images choquantes, de la cyber-haine, des sectes, des problèmes techniques, des arnaques etc. Le site fournit une masse d'informations utiles sur les risques et, en outre, apprend aux jeunes comment ils doivent les maîtriser. Le site contient également une liste d'adresses d'organismes, autorités publiques et points de notification où l'on peut signaler de tels problèmes. Bref, www.web4me est la référence par excellence pour des jeunes qui cherchent à surfer sur le Net sans soucis et en tout sécurité!

Contacts pour plus d'informations:
• Coordination de Safer Internet Belgique: info.fr@saferinternet.be - tél. 0322/475.44.12 (Child Focus) - contacts presse: 0322/547.06.04 (Crioc)
• Insafe: info-insafe@eun.org

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Italia: oltre i confini

Cosa c’è di bello nell’oltrepassare virtualmente i confini nazionali?
Vivere ed imparare a livello internazionale via internet arricchisce le nostre vite con più divertimento, amici e conoscenza. Ci porta a riflettere sulle nostre idee preconcette e apre le nostre menti ad un mondo di possibilità, allargando i nostri orizzonti e gettando un ponte tra genti e culture diverse secondo una modalità che non era possibile prima. Ciò significa che dobbiamo navigare con molta attenzione lungo la linea che separa i nostri diritti, la nostra libertà e privacy da quelli degli altri.
Il blogathon del Safer Internet Day riunisce bambini, insegnanti ed organizzazioni da tutto il mondo per condividere insieme i loro punti di vista.

Belgium : www.web4me.be: first aid for teenagers on the internet




www.web4me.be : first aid for teenagers on the internet

www.web4me.be is an initiative of the www.saferinternet.be platform that is supported by the European Commission. It was the last action of the first phase of the safer internetproject that was coördinated by The CRIOC. Other partners were the ISPA, the CIAOSN, Child Focus and the Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism. After an educational campaign for the children and their educators, web4me was addressed to the young age groups directly.

On web4me the young and adolescent internet users will find information, advice and links adapted to their state of knowledge, with regard to the various problems that they may encounter on the internet: shocking images, cyber-hate, sectarian appeals, technical problems, swindles, etc. The website provides massive useful information about the dangers and, moreover, teaches the youth how to keep them under control. The website also contains a list of addresses of organisms, public authorities and contact points where people can notify any such problems. In short, web4me is the reference par excellence for young people who want to surf the Net without any worries and in full safety!

The second phase of the safer internetproject has started in Belgium. In the years to come web4me will be kept up-to-date permanently and other actions for this age group are planned.

Do you want more information? Please contact:

Coordination of Safer Internet Belgium: info.fr@saferinternet.be (French) and info.nl@saferinternet.be (Dutch)- tel. 02/475.44.12 (Child Focus) - presscontact: 02/547.06.04 (Crioc-Oivo)
Insafe: info-insafe@eun.org

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Denmark: Youth and gambling

- Benedicte Ejlers, Head of the Department, Centre for Compulsive Gambling

A significant expansion of gambling opportunities, increased participation in gambling activities and gambling related problems has been witnessed during the last decade. Research concerned with adolescent gambling has shown that adolescents represent the highest risk group for problem gambling. A theoretical and empirical examination of adolescent gambling and problem gambling presents results from the first pilot study of adolescent problem gambling in Denmark (N=381). The prevalence of problem gambling was found to be 7.6%. The percentage of problem gambling was higher among males (11.9%) than females (2.8%). It was concluded that youth problem gambling is an area of importance for the Danish community that needs further investigation.
(The research pilot study is made by Louise Due, Aarhus University)
The Danish University of Education and The Danish National Institute of Social Research are both started investigations of youth and problem gambling.

Warning signs of problem gambling
* Spends large amount of time gambling
* Begins to place larger and more frequent bets
* “Chases” losses frequently (returns to gambling activities to win back money lost)
* Has growing debts
* Pins hopes on the “big win”
* Promises to cut back on gambling
* Refuses to explain behaviour or lies about it
* Has frequent emotional high and lows (mood swings)
* Boasts about winning
* Prefers gambling to other activities
* Repeatedly seeks activities that produce a “high” (physiological arousal)
* Has been involved in borrowing or stealing money and can’t remember what the money was spent on. Appears desperate when requesting to borrow money.
* Appears nervous when observing sports events on television
* Carries excessive amounts of cash
* Talks excessively about gambling
* Failing grades and increased absenteeism in school

It is important to remember that it is a constellation of these behaviours, which constitute a potential problem.

For more information: www.youthgambling.com and www.ludomani.dk


ITU and Partnerships for Global Cybersecurity

In today's interconnected world of networks, threats can now originate anywhere − our collective cybersecurity depends on the security practices of every connected country, business, and citizen. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a specialized agency within the United Nations system, would like to draw Safer Internet Day participants’ interest to a number of information resources dedicated to cybersecurity and spam.

The ITU Cybersecurity Gateway is an easy-to-use online information resource on national and international cybersecurity related initiatives worldwide. A vast number of resources and links are available and organizations are invited to join in partnership with the ITU and other stakeholders to build confidence and security in the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs).

The StopSpamAlliance is a joint initiative to gather information and resources on combating spam. This initiative was undertaken by Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), the EU’s Contact Network of Spam Authorities (CNSA), International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the London Action Plan, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Seoul-Melbourne Anti-Spam group. The StopSpamAlliance.org website contains an overview about each of these organization’s activities in countering spam and related threats.

The outcome documents from the two phases of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) emphasize that building confidence and security in the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) is a necessary pillar for building a global information society. ITU has been asked to play the main facilitator role for to assist stakeholders in building confidence and security in the use of ICTs. To stress the importance of the multi-stakeholder implementation of this task, ITU has named this the Partnerships for Global Cybersecurity (PGC) initiative.

In commenting on the Safer Internet initiative, newly elected ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun Touré stressed the need for greater cooperation between regulators, government, security firms, communication service providers, and end users in dealing with the challenges to building a safe and secure information society.

The International Telecommunication Union wishes you all a very successful Safer Internet Day 2007!

Enquiries related to ITU activities in the area of cybersecurity can be directed to cybersecurity@itu.int.

ITU

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About ITU

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is an international organization (specialized agency) within the United Nations System where governments and the private sector coordinate global telecommunication networks and services. Through its standards, development, and policy research activities, ITU has a long-standing track record in security for information and communication systems. There are currently more than seventy ITU recommendations focusing on security.

Slovenija: Prečkanje meja ne le globalno – začnimo lokalno.

Ja, seveda, strinjam se z vsemi somišljeniki, ki menijo, da internet in naraščajoča množica storitev, ki jih le ta ponuja, omogočajo prečkati meje in tudi na ta način omogočajo navadnim smrtnikom spoznavati druge kulture, vrednote, načine življenja in podobno. Ker temu ne oporekam, se sploh ne bom spustila v globlje razmišljanje o tem. Veliko bolj pa me zabava razmišljanje o prečkanju lokalnih meja v Sloveniji, tistih med mesti in tistih na spletu.
 
Da vas ne spravim preveč v zadrego z vprašanjem, kolikokrat na leto se odpravite odkrivat Slovenijo na povsem drug konec, od koder sicer prihajate, vas izzivam z naslednjim »preizkusom«: odprite svoj elektronski nabiralnik in preštejte, koliko elektronskih naslovov imate od ljudi, ki ne živijo v isti občini kot vi. Ja, v mojem e-nabiralniku se jih ne najde prav veliko. Koliko torej internet kot sodobno sredstvo komunikacije prečka tiste prve, lokalne meje?
Naj se, prosim, najde nekdo, ki bo moj sum o barikadah pri prečkanju lokalnih mej, v hipu ovrgel.

Sicer pa vam ob Dnevu varne rabe interneta želim le še VARNO DESKANJE, VARNO KLIKANJE tudi v prihodnosti.

Alenka Žavbi & Tanja Šterk, Safe-si
www.safe.si
info@safe.si

SPAIN: OPTENET launches “Elecfra.com” — a website for raising awareness and providing assistance on antiphishing — to mark International Safer Internet Day 2007

To mark International Safer Internet Day 2007 on 6 February, the company is launching Elecfra.com, a website with content and warnings about online fraud. In addition, the company will be offering one year’s free use of its content filtering product through Elecfra.com.
Optenet, a leading Spanish multinational providing security services to ISPs, mobile operators and corporations, will be playing an active role in the celebration this Tuesday 6 February of International Safer Internet Day 2007 (SID 2007). The event is taking place as part of the European Commission’s “Safer Internet” program, which is run in Spain by the NGO Protégeles.com.
Optenet’s participation in the various activities taking place around the world for SID 2007 will include taking part in the Blogathon, launching the website Elecfra.com, and offering a year’s free use of their web filter, available exclusively through the new website.

Elecfra
Project Elecfra is the product of an agreement between the Spanish Ministry of Industry and content analysis and blocking firm Optenet. Its main objective is to design and develop a technical-scientific programming system for automatically detecting and filtering fraudulent e mail and web pages. The system homes in on fraudulent practices through a multifaceted process that includes the application of e-mail filtering techniques, analysis of the structure of reported web pages, simulation of access, and development of a predictive model based on access responses. In general the tool blocks confidential information, stopping the user from mistakenly entering this on phishing websites and preventing access to the information through other means, such as e mail or conversations on instant messaging applications (e.g. Messenger).
Tips on avoiding phishing provided by Optenet on the website www.elecfra.com include never responding to e mail requests for personal information, entering URLs in the address bar of the browser, and making sure the website being used employs encryption techniques.

Poland: Obchody Dnia Bezpiecznego Internetu na świecie

Bardzo ważny w idei Dnia Bezpiecznego Internetu jest jego międzynarodowy charakter. W tegoroczne obchody DBI, które odbędą się 6 lutego, włączyło się prawie 40 państw. Organizatorem czwartej edycji obchodów Dnia Bezpiecznego Internetu odbywającego się pod hasłem „Współpraca ponad granicami” jest European Schoolnet, koordynator organizacji Insafe, czyli europejskiej sieci bezpiecznego Internetu (www.saferinternet.org). Jak przed dwoma laty, patronat nad Dniem Bezpiecznego Internetu objęła Viviane Reding, unijny Komisarz ds. Społeczeństwa Informatycznego i Mediów.

Po raz kolejny najważniejszą częścią obchodów będzie ogólnoświatowy blogathon, który 6 lutego rozpocznie się w Australii i przesuwając się ku zachodowi, dotrze do Stanów Zjednoczonych i Kanady. Zachęceni olbrzymim sukcesem blogahtonu 2006, w 2007 włączyliśmy do zabawy najmłodszych. Do ogłoszonego w październiku 2006 konkursu na pracę poświęconą bezpieczeństwu w Internecie zgłosiło się ponad 200 szkół z 25 krajów z całego świata. Wykorzystanie najnowszych technologii umożliwiło nawiązanie współpracy między szkołami z różnych państw. Ich zadaniem było przygotowanie projektu na jeden z trzech zaproponowanych tematów: Prywatność w Sieci, Netykieta, Obrazy. W Dniu Bezpiecznego Internetu wszystkie kreacje zostaną zaprezentowane w blogathonie.

Ponad 100 zespołów oczekuje na dzień 6 lutego - otwarcie blogathonu i rozwiązanie konkursu na najlepszą pracę. Z Polski do konkursu zgłosiło się 31 szkół. 19 z nich podjęło się funkcji lidera w ramach partnerstwa szkół, zaś pozostałych 12 placówek wspiera działania szkoły partnerskiej z innego kraju.

Spośród autorów zamieszczonych prac zostanie wybranych 4 zwycięzców.

W Dniu Bezpiecznego Internetu na całym świecie podejmuje się wiele inicjatyw mających zwrócić uwagę na rosnący problem, jakim jest zapewnienie każdemu z nas możliwości bezpiecznego i przyjaznego korzystania z Internetu. Wykorzystanie najnowszej technologii w połączeniu z ideą „współpracy ponad granicami” pozwala na ponadkulturową wymianę doświadczeń i przemyśleń na temat Internetu, związanych z nim korzyści i zagrożeń.

Austria: Privacy is a key issue for the safe use of web 2.0

KidsSaferinternet.jpg

Humans are often considered as "social animals". Unsurprisingly, the internet is constantly developing from static publishing towards participation and social interaction. Buzzwords like web 2.0, social networking, social software, user-generated content have marked this evolution.

Children are often pioneers when it comes to "crossing the borders" of existing usage patterns. In Austria e.g., already 30 percent of youths between 11 and 18 years read blogs on regular basis and 25 percent use plattform like myspace (study "elf/18", jugendkultur.at).

The increasing popularity of web 2.0 services calls for action - also for internet safety awareness raisers! Amongst many other activities Saferinternet.at will especially focus on the privacy issue this year. Because web 2.0 applications are based on the users contributions and data. In this context one of the major risks is to publish privat data without being aware of potential misuse.

The most important tips for children:

  1. Think first before you enter personal data on the internet! Not only your friends can read your information. And remember, once you post information online, you can’t take it back.
  2. If you feel threatened by someone or uncomfortable because of something online, tell an adult you trust.
  3. Never publish pictures, movies, music etc. without asking the people shown or the copyright holder for permisson
On the occasion of the Safer Internet Day a series of events for children and parents to practice safe internet and mobile phone use take place in Austria, including cellcasting, blogging and safe mobile phone desiging. Detailed information you can find on the Saferinternet.at Website.

www.saferinternet.at
www.handywissen.at
www.checkdeinhandy.at

The Netherlands-DIGITALLY AWARE: Crossing Borders

Op Safer Internet Day 6 februari vindt de Europese Safer Internet Day plaats. Op deze dag wordt er in diverse Europese landen aandacht gevraagd voor onderwerpen als veiligheid op internet, computergames en mobiele telefonie. Daarbij staan jongeren centraal. Ook in Nederland vinden er die dag diverse activiteiten plaats, met als centrale ontmoetingsplaats Societeit de Witte in Den Haag. Ook H.K.H. Prinses Máxima is aanwezig!

Er worden resultaten van het onderzoek naar de hulpverlening via de chat van de Kindertelefoon gepresenteerd
De Digibewust Award wordt uigereikt
Ruim 100 kinderen nemen deel aan een educatief middagprogramma
Carry Slee leest voor
Prinses Máxima neemt het boekje Kindertelefoon-tips van Carry Slee in ontvangst

The kick-off of the Safer Internet Day in the Netherlands is situated in the Hague, the political capital. On this day the focus will mostly lay on the theme Internet safety in relation to the children and the youth. A wide range of activites are to take place including
- Results presentation by the Dutch children phone foundation
- A political debate with prominent Dutch politicians,
- The Digibewust Award for the most ICT-minded politician,
- An educational afternoon program for children along with a book presentation by Carry Slee, an author of children

Alongside the presence of national press, prominent politicians , we are also graced with the presence of Prinsess Maxima of the Netherlands!

Belgium: PEGI Online, play safe without borders!

pegiblack.jpg Games without Borders

Today, many videogames bought on a disc can be played against other players via a PC or games console with an internet connection. Further, there are more websites now offering pure online gameplay. These range from simple arcade games to massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) which often involve thousands of players around the world participating in a single game at once.

Many such games foster the emergence of virtual communities, sometimes exposing players to the risks associated with real time interaction between unknown fellow players, such as breaches of privacy, inappropriate behaviour, user-created content or unsafe website links. PEGI Online is a new EC funded project that aims to address these risks.

What is PEGI Online?
As a supplement of the PEGI system it will ensure a safe gaming environment for minors. Game providers who meet the standards set out in the PEGI Online Safety Code will be licensed to use a new PEGI Online label. These standards include, amongst other things, obligations to try to keep websites free of illegal and offensive user-created content and undesirable links, protection of privacy and submission to an independent complaints mechanism. The label will appear on packaging and websites with a hyperlink to a dedicated information site featuring, amongst others, safety tipps for parents and children. Find out more? Click here http://www.isfe.eu

Luxembourg : Projet virtuel pour le monde réel

Une question anodine a été posée au forum "Que dire à un technicien...?" pour ne pas se faire arnaquer, suite à un cas où un visiteur du forum s'était fait avoir par une firme informatique et où nous, les membres "ProduForum" et "AmisduForum" étaient intervenu(e)s pour que le problème du visiteur soit résolu. Chose qui était faite en téléphonant à la firme informatique, laquelle remboursait notre "client virtuel".

J'ai pris alors l'initiative de proposer aux membres "911 ordi" d'y créer un didacticiel complèt, chose qui est en train de se réaliser. Quelques visiteurs et/ou membres travaillent ensemble, sous mon coaching, sur ce projet virtuel, sans s'avoir jamais vu, ni connu. Un challenge (défi) très intéressant...

Explication en détail :

Ce sera un dosssier "Protection du consommateur", dans lequel nous donnerons tous les trucs&astuces avec liens informatifs, pour que le la personne qui a un "bobo" avec son ordinateur sache exactement comment se comporter afin de ne pas se faire arnaquer !

Comme il s'agit ici, dans ce projet, de gens vivant au Canada, les liens pointeront envers des sites au Canada, mais le texte du guide est fait de tel façon qu'il est applicable pour tout pays. De cette façon, dès que nous libérerons le dossier final, chaque autre pays pourra s'en servir et simplement changer les liens envers des liens nationaux et de changer les valeurs monétaires.

Pour plus de détails, veuillez visiter mon blog, créé spécialement pour le SID à l'adresse URL suivante :

http://www.internetmonitor.lu/saferinternetday2007/ Projet virtuel pour le monde réel

Austria: BildungsMedienZentrum des Landes Oö.

BIMEZ-BildungsMedienZentrum (the educational multimedia information centre) of the upper austrian government - , is a non-profit-organization and the main distributor für educational media of this regional area. Our Target groups are pedagogues, parents, children and youth associations. Our aims are to support them with latest media and give information and help on following subjects: Internet- and media educational theory, learning software, youth film education, educational media productions and more. In addition we offer workshops, talks, courses and projects e.g.:
Internet radio
Aktio dialog (generation talk - youngsters inform older people about using the internet)
Trickboxx (producing animated films)

More information:
http://www.bimez.at
http://www.ooe-jugend.at/aktiondialog

Hope you see you soon on our homepage www.bimez.at

Beate Zechmeister

Austria: Cyberjuz_Cybermag

Take a look at the first virtual youth centre of upper austria. It´s your chance to present your own opinions, ideas and wishes to an international audience. Fell free to chat with Austrian youngsters, post your articles on the forum or simply find new friend.

http://www.cyberjuz.at

Hope to see you soon and create your own article in our new online magazin

http://www.cybermag.at

Beate Zechmeister

Germany: Youth Protection Roundtable

Logo Youth Protection Roundtable

The Internet isn't decent, it's obscene in many cases.

Some days ago I met a young webdesigner from the UK. We had dinner together and he took a photo of the meal, a bloody rib-eye steak, by his mobile phone and uploaded it to the Internet. "I am doing it always, everybody shall be able to see what I eat", he laughed. Ok, that's funny, but is everybody interested in anybody's food?

Another place and other pictures: The Digital Opportunities Foundation I am managing director of is running a database of Public Internet Access Points in Germany. You can request for any place in any area and get information about opening hours, number of computers, target groups, costs of access, etc. We are asking them to provide a photo for the database to give an impression of the place. There are many youth clubs in the database and what they often send in are party photos. Young people in good mood, more or less dressed, more or less drunk. Who cares?

Ok, these are no examples for harmful content on the Internet. But there is a tremendous amount of pictures online, a real flood of pictures. There are all these devices – digital cameras and mobile phones – ready to take more pictures and I am really wondering who on earth is looking at these, what gets noticed, what gets really seen?

Pictures are very important for our understanding of the world and the Internet gives us the opportunity to transfer them all around the world in a few minutes. But not every picture is suitable for everybody. Therefore we need responsible decisions which pictures shall be public and which shall be private. And we need to teach our children not to accept all images they find on the Internet as true.

Last year I met a turkish teacher in Berlin and she illustrated me her way to teach her students media literacy. She shows them how to use software to manipulate pictures and then she sends them surfing the Internet. Now that they know how pictures could lie they learn to differentiate between trustworthy and non-trustworthy sources of information.

It's that sort of media literacy I think we need, youngsters as well as adults. Therefore I plead for training of digital literacy as one of the best means to prevent children from the risks of new media. My foundation has been running several Germany wide training campaigns for digital literacy in Public Internet Access Points.

With the Youth Protection Roundtable we are now going a step further. The Youth Protection Roundtable is a project funded by the European Commission bringing together technical experts and children's welfare specialists. Our goal for the Youth Protection Roundtable is to establish an intercommunicable socio-technical approach to youth protection. The Youth Protection Roundtable will encourage a collaborative and cross-sector dialogue focusing on the optimal mix of effective technology-enhanced strategies on the one hand and education-based strategies on the other hand to enable youth – and responsible adults in the case of minors – for a safe and secure use of the Internet.

The network is open for new members, please contact us info@yprt.eu

Jutta Croll, Managing Director of Stiftung Digitale Chancen - Digital Opportunities Foundation, Germany.

Czechia: Safer Internet magický a přátelský 2007

Literární soutěž pro mládež na téma „Internet – svět, který pomáhá i ubližuje“

V roce 2006 proběhla soutěž na téma „Můj internetový ochránce“. Zadáním soutěže bylo vytvořit, popsat a nakreslit svého vlastního hrdinu s kouzelnými vlastnostmi, který se dětem líbí a je schopen chránit je při jejich internetových dobrodružstvích. Povídky finalistů soutěže jsou zveřejněny na www.saferinternet.cz.
http://www.saferinternet.czsoutez@saferinternet.cz

Zadání literární soutěže 2007

Letošním úkolem je vytvořit práci z prostředí internetu. Bude vycházet ze zkušeností vlastních nebo kamarádů a popisovat veselé i smutné příhody,l se kterými se na internetu mladí lidé potkávají. Zvláštní cenou bude odměněn nejlepší příspěvek, který na příkladu ze života popíše nebezpečí, kterým jsou mladí na internetu vystaveni a ukáže způsob, jak jim čelit. Povídky mohou být veselé i smutné.

Téma literární soutěže je „Internet – svět, který pomáhá i ubližuje“. Cílem je vytvořit psaný text o internetu a jeho dobrých nebo špatných vlastnostech. V textu mohou vystupovat lidé i nadpřirozené bytosti, které mohou lidem pomáhat při internetových dobrodružstvích, komunikaci s přáteli i zloduchy, v zábavě nebo hledání informací, poučení nebo boji proti nebezpečím a hrozbám, které mohou na internetu vycházet i od jiných lidí.

Vítězná práce bude obsahovat zajímavý příběh, který souvisí s problematikou bezpečnějšího užívání internetu, a bude ilustrována alespoň jedním akčním obrázkem.

Forma zpracování může být libovolná - prozaické vyprávění, pohádka, poesie nebo třeba komiks.

Pravidla soutěže

Soutěž je určena mladým autorům ve věku 10 – 16 let (žáci 5. - 9. tříd základních škol a odpovídajících ročníků víceletých gymnázií).

Rozsah práce
Maximální rozsah práce je omezen na 2000 slov (zhruba 5-7 stran A4 včetně obrázků).

Veškeré příspěvky musí být doručeny v digitální formě nejpozději dne 31. května 2006. Lze je poslat emailem na adresu soutez@saferinternet.cz. K odeslání povídek lze využít webu našich partnerů, kteří také budou přijímat povídky na svých stránkách. Instrukce najdete na webu oblíbeného Alíka (www.alik.cz), povídky lze odeslat i pomocí formuláře FANTAZIN Českého rozhlasu (http://www.rozhlas.cz/deti/fantazin/).

Podmínky účasti v soutěži
Pro zařazení příspěvku do soutěže je vyžadován písemný souhlas autora (autorů) se zveřejněním jejich práce a svolení k použití vytvořených ilustrací nebo portrétu hrdiny povídky jako maskota bezpečnějšího internetu v rámci projektu Saferinternet.cz.

Autorská práva
Povídky musí respektovat autorská práva, nesmí prokazatelně využít cizích dříve publikované náměty nebo ilustrací.

Požadované údaje
Soutěžící musí společně s vlastním příspěvkem (název) zaslat kontaktní údaje svoje (jméno, e-mail, telefon) a své školy (název a adresa školy, třída, jméno a příjmení třídního učitele, e-mail a telefon) nebo rodičů či jiné dospělé kontaktní osoby (jméno a příjmení, adresa, telefon). Organizátor se zavazuje, že tyto údaje nebudou komerčně zneužity ani poskytnuty třetím osobám.

Hodnocení

Vyhodnocení soutěžních příspěvků provede porota soutěže, jejíž složení bude zveřejněno nejpozději v den uzávěrky soutěže. Nejlepší tři příspěvky v každé kategorii budou vyhlášeny do konce srpna 2007 a v září 2007 proběhne vyhlášení vítězů národního kola soutěže (finále).

Hodnotící kritéria

1. Originalita a kreativita
Originalita je důležitým kritériem hodnocení soutěžních příspěvků. Toto kritérium zahrnuje vyjádření vlastních prožitků mladého vyprávěče a také míru jeho obrazotvornosti. Povídky musí mít vztah k problematice internetu.

2. Poutavost, jazyk a plynulost vyprávění
Vyprávění má obsahovat zajímavé myšlenky, nápady a mít zápletku, která dokáže uchvátit, odpovídající závěr a logickou návaznost událostí. Postavy mají být portrétovány prostřednictvím akce a dialogu, ne pouhým popisem. Bude se hodnotit také použití jazyka, mluvnickou správnost, konstrukce vět, bohatost vyjadřování s ohledem na věk autora.
Z hlediska hlavních cílů vyprávěčské soutěže bude mít větší váhu posouzení obsahu než formy vyjádření a jeho mluvnické správnosti.

3. Použití grafiky, barevnost a design ilustrací
Hodnoceny budou jen povídky, které budou obsahovat alespoň jeden obrázek ilustrující příběh a portrét hlavního hrdiny, který se může stát maskotem bezpečnějšího internetu. Kreativita je důležitější než písemná forma, proto budou bodově zvýhodněna vyprávění obsahující vlastní ilustrace, grafiku.

Zvláštní cena

Může být udělena za nejvíce vynalézavé technologické řešení při prezentaci vyprávění. Zohlední přiměřenost použité technologie, kreativitu a také zkušenosti autora (autorů). Pro posouzení příspěvků vyjádřených čistě grafickou formou bude ovšem požadován jejich stručný popis nebo obsah.

Finále soutěže

Finále se uskuteční tradičně v rámci festivalu Jičín-město pohádky v září 2007 v Městské knihovně v Jičíně. Finalisté se budou moci vzájemně seznámit, podělit se svými zkušenostmi a zážitky.

Finalisté soutěže budou odměněni věcnými cenami a jejich práce budou zveřejněny.

Organizátor: Projekt CZESICON -
Kontaktní email: soutez@saferinternet.cz

Croatia: Minors on the Internet – Are They Safe?

The current topic of child security on the Internet was a part of the CARNet Users Conference program this year again, and connecting the elementary and secondary schools to CARNet network and numerous new CARNet users, elementary and secondary school students, have made it even more current.
The participants in the discussion about this important topic were Ivana Turčić Prstačić (Education and Teacher Training Agency), Marija Krmek (Center for Child Protection of the city of Zagreb), Igor Rukljač (Trnsko Elementary School), Ivica Ostojić (Cisco) and Saša Jusić (INFIGO IS) and the discussion was moderated by Vanja Librić Radojević, the Head of CARNet Abuse service.

The discussion participants concluded that free access to information in general, and thus the information available on the Internet, is an indisputable need and right of young people. The growing number of young people comes across the Internet very early in their life, in their homes and at school. In today's life the Internet is very important, therefore children should not be prohibited from using it, because that would surely impede their development required by today's way and pace of life.

The participants remarked that we encounter many dangerous objects and situations in our daily life (e.g. knives, traffic dangers etc.), but also that, owing to timely and adequate information, we learn the correct and safe way of using them. In line to this analogy, discussion participants emphasized that the same principle is applicable to the attitude towards the Internet.

Given the fact that children often deal with the world of Internet better then adults, all discussion participants agreed that it is precisely education that is the primary and crucial element of protection, not only of children, but also of parents and teachers. It was concluded that informing and education should be united in a comprehensive and continuous process, taking place on all levels, starting from the level of a country, the level of school and other learning institutions, down to our homes. Nevertheless, the primary role of parents themselves in the education of children about these dangers of life is still indisputable – despite all the more frequent lack of time, parents should in no way allow the computers and the Internet to take over the main role in bringing up their children – although children may know more about technology, parents are the ones who know much more about life.

Bulgaria: State Agency protects children online

Since 2001 the State Agency for Child Protection works on the topic “Internet and the Rights of the Child” for the provision of safer Internet environment for children.
From 2003 the State Agency for Child Protection provides the Anonymous Internet Consultation Service “Club Teenager”. The analysis of the situation shows that from the beginning of the theme until the end of 2006 Club Teenager had consulted over 700 customers.
In 2004 SACP launched its new specialized site “Fighting the commercial sexual exploitation of children” www.stopech.sacp.government.bg.
The main objective of the site is to provide full information on the problem of sexual and labour exploitation, such as: national legislation, international standards, national documents, practices, useful information.
An important accent in the site is the Form for submission of signals, from which 260 signals have been received until now, 20 of them being about illicit and harmful Internet content – child pornography, selling of materials, etc.
Being aware of the fact that children need an alternative for their free time in 2005-2006 the SACP initiated the development and realization of the project for the creation of computer games without violence. Based on the ideas of 160 children from all over the country, 10 new computer games had been developed, which can be played online and are placed on the SACP web page www.sacp.government.bg.
The main partner on the project was the Charitable Foundation “Ronald McDonald-Bulgaria”.
With the support of The State Agency for Child Protection, in 2005 “Applied Research and Communications” Foundation started a project for the creation of the National Hotline against Harmful and Illicit Internet Content, as a part of the international association of hotlines “INHOPE”, based on European Commission “Safer Internet”.
In 2006 SACP in partnership with “Partners-Bulgaria” Foundation and with the financial support of British Embassy in Bulgaria, realized a project-campaign “Children in the Web”. The media part of the campaign had a motto “You never know who is on the other side”. With its realization the “Child in the Web” Project unified the efforts of the governmental institutions (The State Agency for Child Protection and the Ministry of Interior) and the NGOs and business (Microsoft and Computel).

България: Агенцията за закрила на детето закриля и в Интернет
Още от 2001 г. Държавната агенция за закрила на детето активно работи по темата „Интернет и правата на детето” за осигуряване на безопасно Интернет пространство за децата.
От 2003 г. Държавната агенция за закрила на детето предоставя услугата анонимно “Интернет консултиране” – Клуб “Тийнейджър”. Анализът на ситуацията показва, че от създаване на рубриката до края на 2006 г. Клуб “Тийнейджър” е консултирал над 700 потребители.
През 2004 г. ДАЗД стартира специализираният си Интернет сайт “Противодействие на сексуалната експлоатация на деца с търговска цел” www.stopech.sacp.government.bg
Основната цел на сайта е да предоставя пълна информация по проблема сексуална и трудова експлоатация, като: национално законодателство, международни стандарти, национални документи, практики, полезна информация.
Важен акцент в сайта е Формата за подаване на сигнали, от която до момента са получени над 260 сигнала за нарушени права на деца, като от тях 20 са за незаконно и вредно съдържание в Интернет – детска порнография, продажба на материали, склоняване.
Съзнавайки факта, че децата се нуждаят от алтернатива за прекарване на свободното време, през 2005-2006 г. Държавната агенция за закрила на детето инициира разработването и реализацията на проект за създаване на компютърни игри без насилие. По идеи на над 160 деца от цялата страна бяха създадени 10 нови компютърни игри, които могат да бъдат играни онлайн и се намират на Интернет страницата на ДАЗД www.sacp.government.bg
Партньор по проекта бе Благотворителна фондация за деца “Роналд Макдоналд – България”.
С подкрепата на Държавната агенция за закрила на детето, през 2005 г. фондация “Приложни изследвания и комуникации” спечели проект за създаване на Национална гореща линия за борба с вредното и незаконно съдържание в Интернет, като част от международната асоциация на горещите линии INHOPE, по програмата на Европейската комисия “Safer Internet”.
През 2006 г. ДАЗД в партньорство с фондация “Партньори-България” и с финансовата подкрепа на Британско посолство в България, реализира проект-кампания “Деца в мрежата”. Медийната част от кампанията премина под мотото “Никога не знаеш кой стои от другата страна”. С реализацията си проектът „Детето в мрежата” обедини усилията на държавните институции (в лицето на Държавната агенция за закрила на детето и Министерство на вътрешните работи), неправителствените организации и бизнеса (в лицето на „Майкрософт – България и „Компютел”).

Lithuania: Crossing Borders in 3D

Think of crossing borders.. What is the first think that comes in mind? Does it really mean crossing real-life borders and living on the world wide web? A place of indefinite possibilities, a power of information, a place where imagination is the only limit. More and more people in Lithuania are using Internet, the gender gap is closed, more and younger people start using newest broadband technologies with high data transfering. Or maybe crossing borders is all about real life actually? Crossing borders in helping people stay in touch, share their daily lifes in pictures and words. Or maybe it is all about crossing borders between generations? In fact, the first two are full speed going processes, however the generation gap is still an open issue and parents are in desperate need of education in new technologies, otherwise they will be just left outside young people's world..

Turkey: ‘‘ MİSSİON İMPOSSİBLE ! ’’

It is a known fact that nowadays, the ratio of the internet users in our country reaches to % 24 ( 17 billion) and we are the third country using msn in the world. By the day, related to this increasing ratio, relevant associations and institutions in our country are inclined to work together about this issue. As the main reason of the fact that computer and internet use becomes widespread is the computer games and countless possibilities and diversities ( Chat, Web Design, games, Research, Shopping and Chance Games..) presented in internet attract especially the group of age 15- 18. In our country computer ownership is about % 13, internet connection is % 8. Also it is doubtless that the reflections of the social role undertaken by internet cafes whose number is reaching to 12000 will be on especially young people.

Considering the demographic structure of our society, there exist serious opportunities for us to be transformed into an information society. Considering the importance of the fact that the majority of the population consists of young ones, since % 54.9 of population is under 30 and young people under age 15 constitute the 28 percent of society, importance of the social policies comes into existence. In this context, the most important cost of the destructive effects of the internet use is erosion of values, alienation and identity depression and more than an economical one. Also it is considered that the generation clash is becoming more than a diversification and shows signals of generation break. In the face of these conditions important various attempts are made to encourage and provide the participation of related institutions, associations, NGOs and private sector for increasing the awareness of parents, educators and young users about the importance of safer internet use. In this context proposed establishment of İnformatics Security Department working related toTelecommunication Association, Safe Internet Campaign planned to be mounted and commitment of the bill called Suppression of Crimes Committed by Publication in İnternet Medium are on the agenda as major achievements.To get detailed explanations about these please watch the power point presentation.

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Germany: Das Thema „Sicherheit im Netz“ geht jeden etwas an!

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Internet ist ein großartiges Medium. Es bietet die bunte und reiche Welt weltweiter Information und Kommunikation. Neben dem offensiven Nutzen dieser Chancen müssen aber auch die Gefahren benannt und vermittelt werden. Hier leisten viele Stellen inzwischen eine gute Arbeit. Klicksafe, der deutsche Informationsknotenpunkt des Safer Internet Programms der Europäischen Union, will diese Informations- und Aufklärungsarbeit voranbringen. Der Safer Internet Day ist ein wunderbarer Aktionstag, der bewusst macht: Das Thema „Sicherheit im Netz“ geht jeden etwas an! Wissen Erwachsene, mit welchen Inhalten ihr Nachwuchs im Netz konfrontiert ist? Welche Tipps beim Surfen können Kindern und Jugendlichen an die Hand gegeben werden? Zahlreiche Aktionen und Veranstaltungen deutschlandweit –Teilnahme an unserer großen Schulhofaktion, Mit-Bloggen beim weltweiten Blog-Marathon oder die Ausstrahlung unseres Spot-Klassikers "Wo ist Klaus?" - rücken das Thema „Sicherheit im Netz“ in den Fokus der Öffentlichkeit. Der Safer Internet Day ist ein guter Baustein für eine nachhaltige Aufklärungskampagne rund ums Internet.

Manfred Helmes, klicksafe-Koordination, Direktor der Landeszentrale für Medien und Kommunikation (LMK) Rheinland-Pfalz, Mitglied der Kommission für Jugendmedienschutz (KJM)

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Bulgaria and Sweden: 25th sequence


We, from IT High School “Exupery” – Varna and our friends from Media Gymnasiet “Nacka Strand “ – Stockholm decided to work on this project considering our points of contact and our efforts to provide more practical education in ICT. When our students work on different school projects they often have to “surf” the net to select only the necessary, correct and complete information. With regard to this, the “hidden” messages when opening a website or following a number of links could be very harmful to every student. That’s why we are obliged to teach young people to be cautious on the net and to be aware of the possibility to face various harmful information.
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http://INSAFE.edu-varna.com

Ние, от ІТ Гимназия “Екзюпери” – Варна и приятелите ни от Медия Гимназия „Нака Странд” – Стокхолм решихме да работим по този проект, отчитайки допирните точки между двете училища и практическата насоченост в обучението по информационни и комуникационни технологии. При разработването на различни проекти, на учениците често им се налага да „сърфират” из Интернет и да отсяват нужната от ненужната информация, вярната от невярната, качествената от некачествената и т.н. В тази връзка „скритите” послания при отварянето на даден сайт или следването на множество препратки могат да изиграят лоша шега на един нищо не подозиращ тийнеджър. Затова трябва да формираме едно устойчиво поведение на младите хора спрямо влиянието на разнообразната информация от Интернет. Прочетете още...http://INSAFE.edu-varna.com

Europe: ENISA Contribution to the Blogathon

The Safer Internet Day Blogathon brings together children, teachers and organisations from across the world to share their views on safety over Internet. The Awareness Raising Section of the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) believes as well in the importance of promoting information security and communication technologies that support citizens and equips them with the skills they need to live and work in the knowledge society, as well as the importance of exchanging information between organisations.

To this end, as part of the ENISA Work Programme 2006, the ENISA AR Section has invited the EU and EEA countries to discuss how to raise information security awareness.

The Awareness Raising Unit of ENISA has organised the 2nd Awareness Raising dissemination workshop to foster the sharing and dissemination of the main findings of the Agency in the field of awareness raising within the Member States in October 2006.
The workshop on awareness raising aimed at policy makers responsible or involved in awareness raising activities in their countries. Through a combination of presentations, case studies and panel debates, participants have further explored cutting-edge topics, key issues and emerging good practices in the awareness raising field. Particular attention has been paid to public-private partnerships, SMEs, children, recent and successful government collaborative initiatives with Internet Service Providers (ISPs) aimed at raising awareness among users. Additionally metrics to evaluate effectiveness of awareness programmes have been discussed.

The workshop included several speakers who have provided some of the material used for the compilation of the “Information Security Awareness Programmes in the EU – Insight and Guidance for Members States” document of ENISA. The findings of this report are the result of the analysis of successful practices and measures already underway in the awareness raising field in Europe. The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of the EU awareness programmes and to construct good practice recommendations as well as offering guidance on running awareness raising campaigns. This includes information on metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs). A roadmap has also been put together to show a holistic progress of awareness raising initiatives.

While presenting and analysing the initiatives and efforts of the Member States in the field of awareness raising, several trends and commonalities have been identified:
• The total number of awareness raising initiatives in the EU has slightly risen over the last year
• As in the past, the difference in nature and number of awareness initiatives derives from the different levels of information security understanding and culture within the countries
• Almost every programme in Member State countries targeted the SME and Home User groups
• Awareness raising collaboration is growing with ISPs
• Awareness raising subjects that are growing in coverage include the use of mobile devices and WiFi
• Websites and training remain the most used communication channels to deliver the message as part of any awareness raising initiative
• Media is still primarily being used as a channel of communication, and not as a target
Moreover, several key pre-requisites and actions that are required for a successful awareness raising initiative have been pinpointed:
• The message delivered has to be appealing and perceived as “of value” to the target group - the audience should be properly evaluated with interests, needs and knowledge identified
• Communication channels should be analysed to identify then use the optimal delivery mechanisms - preferred communication channels per target group should be understood and utilised
• Public-private partnerships should be used to leverage synergies to help make sure that the initiative has the resources and expertise to deliver the right message to the right people using the most effective channels
• Multipliers such as teachers and the Media should be used to help increase the scope and coverage of any awareness raising initiative
• Metrics and KPIs should be used to measure the effectiveness of an initiative – lessons learnt through analysis of quantitative and qualitative data can be used to help improve future campaigns
It has been concluded that it is key to:
• Leverage on the experience of other countries as awareness training and campaigns around Europe present a lot of similarities
• Share the knowledge on how to raise information security awareness
• Review and re-use material available in various countries

To this end, ENISA will continue promoting the exchange of information and provide material that could be customised and presented to the Member States to facilitate their work on awareness raising. ENISA and the Member States will intensify their efforts to positively influence the public’s behaviour towards information security, changing the mindset of the human element in order to achieve greater self-awareness recognising the importance of disseminating its findings and recommendations with the Member States.

Europe: ENISA Contribution to the Blogathon

The Safer Internet Day Blogathon brings together children, teachers and organisations from across the world to share their views on safety over Internet. The Awareness Raising Section of the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) believes as well in the importance of promoting information security and communication technologies that support citizens and equips them with the skills they need to live and work in the knowledge society, as well as the importance of exchanging information between organisations.

To this end, as part of the ENISA Work Programme 2006, the ENISA AR Section has invited the EU and EEA countries to discuss how to raise information security awareness.

The Awareness Raising Unit of ENISA has organised the 2nd Awareness Raising dissemination workshop to foster the sharing and dissemination of the main findings of the Agency in the field of awareness raising within the Member States in October 2006.

The workshop on awareness raising aimed at policy makers responsible or involved in awareness raising activities in their countries. Through a combination of presentations, case studies and panel debates, participants have further explored cutting-edge topics, key issues and emerging good practices in the awareness raising field. Particular attention has been paid to public-private partnerships, SMEs, children, recent and successful government collaborative initiatives with Internet Service Providers (ISPs) aimed at raising awareness among users. Additionally metrics to evaluate effectiveness of awareness programmes have been discussed.

The workshop included several speakers who have provided some of the material used for the compilation of the “Information Security Awareness Programmes in the EU – Insight and Guidance for Members States” document of ENISA. The findings of this report are the result of the analysis of successful practices and measures already underway in the awareness raising field in Europe. The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of the EU awareness programmes and to construct good practice recommendations as well as offering guidance on running awareness raising campaigns. This includes information on metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs). A roadmap has also been put together to show a holistic progress of awareness raising initiatives.
While presenting and analysing the initiatives and efforts of the Member States in the field of awareness raising, several trends and commonalities have been identified:
• The total number of awareness raising initiatives in the EU has slightly risen over the last year
• As in the past, the difference in nature and number of awareness initiatives derives from the different levels of information security understanding and culture within the countries
• Almost every programme in Member State countries targeted the SME and Home User groups
• Awareness raising collaboration is growing with ISPs
• Awareness raising subjects that are growing in coverage include the use of mobile devices and WiFi
• Websites and training remain the most used communication channels to deliver the message as part of any awareness raising initiative
• Media is still primarily being used as a channel of communication, and not as a target

Moreover, several key pre-requisites and actions that are required for a successful awareness raising initiative have been pinpointed:
• The message delivered has to be appealing and perceived as “of value” to the target group - the audience should be properly evaluated with interests, needs and knowledge identified
• Communication channels should be analysed to identify then use the optimal delivery mechanisms - preferred communication channels per target group should be understood and utilised
• Public-private partnerships should be used to leverage synergies to help make sure that the initiative has the resources and expertise to deliver the right message to the right people using the most effective channels
• Multipliers such as teachers and the Media should be used to help increase the scope and coverage of any awareness raising initiative
• Metrics and KPIs should be used to measure the effectiveness of an initiative – lessons learnt through analysis of quantitative and qualitative data can be used to help improve future campaigns

It has been concluded that it is key to:
• Leverage on the experience of other countries as awareness training and campaigns around Europe present a lot of similarities
• Share the knowledge on how to raise information security awareness
• Review and re-use material available in various countries

To this end, ENISA will continue promoting the exchange of information and provide material that could be customised and presented to the Member States to facilitate their work on awareness raising. ENISA and the Member States will intensify their efforts to positively influence the public’s behaviour towards information security, changing the mindset of the human element in order to achieve greater self-awareness recognising the importance of disseminating its findings and recommendations with the Member States.

Romania: Crossing borders

In an age of globalization and in a world based on common consciousness, the internet has become a primary tool in the development of universal values. It has “invaded” almost every aspect of our lives and will continue to do so as long as humans will have the “thirst” for knowledge and communication. The modern technology now allows us to do things our parents or grandparents never dreamt about, whether it’s communicating in real time with a relative that lives on the other side of the globe or checking the weather online for our next business trip, virtually there are no limits. We can study online, watch television, and listen to music, blog our diaries, read newspapers and even do our shopping and the only thing restricting us is that a day has 24 hours.
The free circulation of information has never been greater. There are no physical borders on the internet but unfortunately that gives the impression to some people that there are no laws either. It’s much easier to insult, take advantage or hurt somebody when you think you can’t be touched hiding behind your screen. In fact, the virtual world is built on the same common sense rules that the real world is based on too: property should be private unless you chose otherwise; you have the right to privacy, to an opinion, to have your own beliefs and to protect your dignity. Paradoxically the same cultural diversion that makes the Internet so great, builds the biggest barriers, because cultural differences can easily lead to misunderstandings and misunderstandings are the source of all conflicts. So, crossing the border is easy, but not crossing the line is much harder.

Europe: ENISA Contribution to the Blogathon

The Safer Internet Day Blogathon brings together children, teachers and organisations from across the world to share their views on safety over Internet. The Awareness Raising Section of the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) believes as well in the importance of promoting information security and communication technologies that support citizens and equips them with the skills they need to live and work in the knowledge society, as well as the importance of exchanging information between organisations.

To this end, as part of the ENISA Work Programme 2006, the ENISA AR Section has invited the EU and EEA countries to discuss how to raise information security awareness.

The Awareness Raising Unit of ENISA has organised the 2nd Awareness Raising dissemination workshop to foster the sharing and dissemination of the main findings of the Agency in the field of awareness raising within the Member States in October 2006.

The workshop on awareness raising aimed at policy makers responsible or involved in awareness raising activities in their countries. Through a combination of presentations, case studies and panel debates, participants have further explored cutting-edge topics, key issues and emerging good practices in the awareness raising field. Particular attention has been paid to public-private partnerships, SMEs, children, recent and successful government collaborative initiatives with Internet Service Providers (ISPs) aimed at raising awareness among users. Additionally metrics to evaluate effectiveness of awareness programmes have been discussed.

The workshop included several speakers who have provided some of the material used for the compilation of the “Information Security Awareness Programmes in the EU – Insight and Guidance for Members States” document of ENISA. The findings of this report are the result of the analysis of successful practices and measures already underway in the awareness raising field in Europe. The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of the EU awareness programmes and to construct good practice recommendations as well as offering guidance on running awareness raising campaigns. This includes information on metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs). A roadmap has also been put together to show a holistic progress of awareness raising initiatives.
While presenting and analysing the initiatives and efforts of the Member States in the field of awareness raising, several trends and commonalities have been identified:
• The total number of awareness raising initiatives in the EU has slightly risen over the last year
• As in the past, the difference in nature and number of awareness initiatives derives from the different levels of information security understanding and culture within the countries
• Almost every programme in Member State countries targeted the SME and Home User groups
• Awareness raising collaboration is growing with ISPs
• Awareness raising subjects that are growing in coverage include the use of mobile devices and WiFi
• Websites and training remain the most used communication channels to deliver the message as part of any awareness raising initiative
• Media is still primarily being used as a channel of communication, and not as a target

Moreover, several key pre-requisites and actions that are required for a successful awareness raising initiative have been pinpointed:
• The message delivered has to be appealing and perceived as “of value” to the target group - the audience should be properly evaluated with interests, needs and knowledge identified
• Communication channels should be analysed to identify then use the optimal delivery mechanisms - preferred communication channels per target group should be understood and utilised
• Public-private partnerships should be used to leverage synergies to help make sure that the initiative has the resources and expertise to deliver the right message to the right people using the most effective channels
• Multipliers such as teachers and the Media should be used to help increase the scope and coverage of any awareness raising initiative
• Metrics and KPIs should be used to measure the effectiveness of an initiative – lessons learnt through analysis of quantitative and qualitative data can be used to help improve future campaigns

It has been concluded that it is key to:
• Leverage on the experience of other countries as awareness training and campaigns around Europe present a lot of similarities
• Share the knowledge on how to raise information security awareness
• Review and re-use material available in various countries

To this end, ENISA will continue promoting the exchange of information and provide material that could be customised and presented to the Member States to facilitate their work on awareness raising. ENISA and the Member States will intensify their efforts to positively influence the public’s behaviour towards information security, changing the mindset of the human element in order to achieve greater self-awareness recognising the importance of disseminating its findings and recommendations with the Member States.

Lithuania: More to join

In Lithuania more companies and organizations are creating initiatives for Safer Internet. It only allows us to hope that public attention for Internet safety is increasing and the browsing culture will develop even further. According to research more and more parents are concerned with children safety and feel the need to educate them.
Most important it is to attract attention of young people and children to different issues of the Internet safety and safeguard them from harmful content. This is why Safer Internet day video competition was launched, so that students can themselves create video material and educate their peers. Ministry of Education has also encouraged schools to make start-page of school computers our main awareness raising website www.draugiskasinternetas.lt
Moreover we are more than happy that such companies as Microsoft join hands to promote safer Internet use: this year they have developed a educative website about safe actions on the web “Young people – Safe Internet”. It will have comics and stories as well as practical suggestions to stay safe on the net for parents and children. Everybody can find this guide on www.draugiskasinternetas.lt.
On SID2007 Communications Regulations Authorities have developed national public forum for people to discuss problems and ask questions that will be answered by IT and children rights protection specialists. You can find this forum on www.esaugumas.lt/forumas. Also at a special address antivirus.esaugumas.lt people will be able to upload files they think could contain viruses and check how different antivirus programs react to the files.

POWER OF IMAGE SAfer Internet Day Project Polish - Portugal

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Lithuania: Mobile Internet

As the Internet moves more and more to mobile phones and the speeds and technologies develop rapidly, specially for Safer Internet Day telecommunications organization “Bite Lietuva” has developed a booklet for parents on Safer Mobile use full of tips on how to protect the children, which will be distributed through outlets as well as schools to parents raising children. You can download it here: Safer Mobile Guide

Lithuania: Virtual Safer Internet day competition

On the Safer Internet day 2007 we have decided to make it virtual. Main information and initiatives will be displayed on website www.draugiskasinternetas.lt. First of all – video competition for school students on topic “Safer Internet”. Visitors of the website will be able to view all the works and from February 13th voting will start up until March 1st, when the winners will be announced.

Greece-Poland: Live on the web-Stay safe!

In this powerpoint presentation, pupils have prepared a brief overview of the social networking sites. The pupils have visited some of the most popular social networking sites, in order to get familiar with their characteristics. After this they made a small evaluation of this websites.
The second step is to make a profile for each pupil. They all made a profile in MySpace.com, to examine the sign in proccess and the privacy options that the site provides to users.
Pupils learned how to invite friends, contact with other users, create forums, personalize their webpage, publish their interests, etc.
After this we discussed in class about the potential danger that users may face in these websites, and the tips for safe use of them.
We finally ended up with the final guidelines for safe social networking, and created a presentation in Greek and in English language.
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Taiwan: Crossing borders

A)TICRF (Taiwan Internet Content Rating Promotion Foundation) was established on March 11, 2005 to promote the concept of Internet Content Rating as well as draft development strategies for the safe access of children and young adults to the Internet. Our logo below is clearly indicated TICRF’s role on protecting children for Internet Safety.
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B)TICRF’s achievements in 2006 are sharing with all of you as follows: TICRF Internet Content Rating Filter is embedded in Microsoft IE 7.0 Chinese version and Windows Vista Chinese version. TICRF establishes an Internet Content Rating System in Taiwan based on PICS (Platform for Internet Content Selection), which is accorded with Taiwan customs. We all know that Internet Explorer is installed with a PICS-based content rating system known as the Content Advisor, and RSACi system are already built-in there. TICRF cooperated with Microsoft Taiwan to embed TICRF Internet Content Rating filter in IE 7.0 Chinese version. It will help people in Taiwan more convenient to set up their browser without download the filter.

C)TICRF held the seminar of “2006 Asia-Pacific Internet Safety” on May 18, 2006 in Taiwan. We invited KISCOM from Korea and IA Japan from Japan to join this seminar. All of the three parties have shared their unique experiences on Internet Safety for children.
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D)TICRF had visited the related organizations of Internet Safety in Australia in December, 2006. From this visit, we learned that these organizations (ACMA / NetAlert / IIA / DCITA) have already concentrated on this filed for a long time and they reach a lot of achievements to be able to be TICRF’s important models in the future.

Thailand: Crossing Borders .. not necessarily so welcome

One of the unpleasant 'border crossings' over the past years have been pandemics such as SARS and Bird Flu .... especially in Asia.

When it hit Asia the schools closed for extended periods of time which then raised the need for continuing teaching and learning away from the actual building which many schools were not prepared for.

So ... consider the senario that a pandemic hits your own country ..... schools are forced to close for long periods ... now I wonder how the school of the future will be designed in order to cope with this .... is the only answer an internet one or are there other issues to consider I wonder?

Some links that may be useful are:
Pandemics
www.shambles.net/pages/learning/medical/pandemics
New School Design
www.shambles.net/pages/staff/NewSch
Teachers in the Future
www.shambles.net/pages/staff/futureteac
Virtual Schools
http://www.shambles.net/pages/school/vschools
21st Century Education
www.shambles.net/pages/school/Ed21cent

Korea : Crossing borders for brighter and safer Internet World

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The Internet, the worldwide publicly accessible network, has been making the world go more global beyond our national boundaries. We are crossing borders unimpededly to acquire any information and to contact our friends in distance via internet, the most powerful tool in the 21st century. Given the fact of the distribution of computer and the development of IC environment, however, the unlawful pornography and gambling industries also have taken full advantage of this technology and these activities arisen in one country now can threaten our youth all over the world through the Internet. Therefore, KISCOM (Korea Internet Safety Commission), a statutory organization under Telecommunication Business Act, facilitates international cooperation to create safer and more reliable global internet environment.

As a global partner, KISCOM works with other hotlines in INHOPE(the International Association of Internet Hotlines). Also in the Asia Pacific region, we closely cooperate with organizations within APIH (Asia-Pacific Internet Hotline) launched in 2005. These 'crossing borders' efforts, we believe, can create safer cyber space with preventing harmful contents in the internet more efficiently.
For more information about APIH, please click here

KISCOM also runs "Illegal and Harmful Information Report Center" receiving reports about allegedly illegal and harmful information from public all over the world. When you encounter a suspected illegal webpage whether provided in Korean language or hosted in Korea, you can easily report it to us via online (http://www.kiscom.or.kr/report).

Finally KISCOM initiates a number of campaigns in order to promote safer internet use. As part of them, KISCOM holds an art competition and exhibition for youth on the theme of "Internet Safety”
Please come and see our children's award-winning cartoons, flash and posters on 'Safer and cleaner internet'
Also you can find out the result of our survey conducted in 2006

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깨끗하고 안전한 사이버 세상을 위하여 정보통신윤리위원회가 함께하겠습니다.

인터넷으로 인해 세계는 국경을 넘어 더욱 글로벌화 되고 있습니다. 21세기의 가장 유용한 매개체인 인터넷을 통해 우리는 아무 제한 없이 자유롭게 어떠한 정보도 얻을 수 있고 멀리 있는 친구와도 안부를 물을 수 있습니다. 하지만 컴퓨터의 공급과 정보통신기술 발전은 음란물과 불법 도박 산업과 같은 많은 역작용도 초래하였으며, 인터넷의 특성으로 인해 이제 다른 국가에서 발생한 이러한 문제가 온 세계로 확산되고 있습니다. 이에 저희 정보통신윤리위원회는 안전하고 올바른 인터넷 세상을 만들어 나가기 위해 해외 유관기관과 적극적인 협력을 해오고 있습니다.

글로벌 파트너로서 정보통신윤리위원회는 국제핫라인협회인 INHOPE의 정회원으로 활동을 하고 있습니다. 또한 아시아 태평양 지역에서는 2005년 발족한 APIH(아태인터넷핫라인)를 통해 유관기관과의 유기적인 협력을 하고 있습니다. 국경을 넘은 우리의 이러한 노력을 통해 유해한 컨텐츠를 보다 효과적으로 예방하며 좀 더 안전한 사이버 세상을 만들어 나가고 있습니다.

정보통신윤리위원회는 안전한 글로벌 인터넷 세상을 만들어 나가기 위해 1992년부터 "불법청소년유해정보신고센터"(http://www.singo.or.kr)를 운영하고 있습니다. 불법 혹은 유해한 사이트를 발견하면, 인터넷을 통해 저희 센터에 신고해 주십시오.(http://www.singo.or.kr/report/report).

마지막으로 정보통신윤리위원회는 올바른 인터넷 사용을 위해 갖가지 캠페인도 벌이고 있습니다. 그 캠페인의 일환으로, 안전한 인터넷을 주제로 한 청소년들의 미술공모전을 주최하여, 좀 더 나은 인터넷 사용에도 힘쓰고 있습니다.
여기를 클릭하시면 보다 자세한 저희 위원회 홍보자료를 만날 수 있습니다.

Singapore - Crossing Borders

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For more than a decade now, the Internet as steadily become more and more a part of daily living in Singapore. From the beginning of the Internet’s entrance into the mainstream, educators have noted its great potential as a rich source of knowledge and learning for young people. Schools were among the first to have an online presence, and inter-school website design competitions were became common around the mid to late nineties. This author also remembers being a part of a cross-national learning project twelve years ago in which high school students from Singapore and Australia met over Internet video conferencing and learnt from one another about the other culture.

Our youth and young children – those born in the early nineties - are known to be ‘digital natives’ because they grew up with the Internet as part of their lives, taking to it like fish to water. Besides the use of the Internet in schools, affordable home broadband services also means that the Internet is increasingly used for leisure as well. Especially popular activities among the digital natives are blogging, social networking, instant messaging, and multiplayer online games.

We have done well in IT education, and there is no longer any worry that our younger generation are not tech-savvy enough to face the wired global economy of tomorrow. While our children have excelled in technical mastery, they are still vastly ill-equiped with the soft skills needed to tread the Internet in a safe, proper, healthy and meaningful fashion.

Undoubtedly, dangers and risks lurk on the Internet. We must teach the younger generation to be astute by showing them what are the signs of danger and the right course of action. Parents need to play a key role by having open communication with their children. Having a draconian attitude towards children’s Internet use might simply cause them to be secretive about their online activities.

Besides keeping them safe, we must teach children and youth to be good citizens online. On the Internet, they meet many people from all over the world through blogs, IM, social networking and games. They should learn to respect others and be responsible for their own actions online. Although the Internet is a free space, it is part of the larger social fabric. The digital natives need to know that saying or doing something disrespectful or irresponsible in their online world does have the possibility of real-life consequences.

Can the digital natives adapt to life offline? We hope to see this generation grow up harnessing the power of the Internet to enhance their lives, but not at the expense of the quality of their lives in the real world. They have to lead a balanced lifestyle, with fruitful pursuits besides those on the Internet. For example, instead of spending all his time online, a teenager could take some of that time to work at a part-time job and learn useful social skills that will last him a lifetime.

If we have safe, proper and healthy digital natives, we hope to see them go beyond that and put their abilities and the potential of the Internet to good use by using it to make a difference in the community. Imagine: high school students putting together an online gallery of digital artwork they have created, and accepting donations through PayPal, which will go towards a fund for financial assistance for needy students! Many from this generation certainly are able to do something like that, and if they did so, such efforts will surely inspire more in turn.

This is Singapore’s vision for our youth and children as the Internet brings the world to them, and them to the world. The vision requires greater emphasis on soft skills than technical ones, and it also needs people. Parents, educators, government agencies, social services and advocacy groups must continue to work hard towards this end.

Australia: Internet Safety in the eyes of students

There are lots and lots of people on the net there are killers on the net and there are paedophiles and lots of people trying to take peoples money we found out that people can find out where you live and your phone number in less than 5 min so when you are in chat rooms do not use your last name and do not give your number out to anyone so be careful on the net: Adam.

After the person come into our class and told us about internet safety, paedophiles etc, I had a completely different outlook of the internet, I realised that the internet is practically a home to paedophiles, scammers etc. The person told us that you shouldn’t put any information or personal details of yourself on the net because paedophiles and people like that can trace you and track you down: Ash

Internet safety is a serious issue not to be joke about. Many young children have been kidnapped and killed by murderers and paedophiles. In only 45 minutes a paedophile can find out where you live, your name, your friends and your interest just by giving out an email address, phone number or full name. So just be aware of when you’re in chat rooms, myspace etc. SO DON’T GET SUCKED IN!!! : Billy

I think that the people and programs that warn and help people about internet safety should reach out further to help people. A person came in the other day and warned us about internet safety. I think that we were lucky to get a person to teach us about internet safety. In closing more people need to know about internet safety: Bobby


You and your friends have to be to be very careful if you are not you could become a target to a scam, murderer or paedophile.
A good way to avoid it is never give your real surname, E-mail address and phone number because if you don’t it makes it hard to find you: Callum

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I’m a 13 year old girl and like most I use the msn to talk to my friends, there was a teacher that recently came and talked to us about internet safety. He was saying about how quickly someone could get all the information about you to stalk you of the internet, and how not to put close up pictures of yourself up because they could copy them for something really bad so just think twice about who you talk to and what you do: Chantelle

Today my class had a man from internet safety come and speak to us about netsafety. I was really shocked how easily people can get your information (paedophiles). Some kids in America did a study about it and in 45 minutes they knew everything about this one girl, so if it’s easy for a couple of school kids to do that it would be very easy for an experienced paedophile to do it. So some tips, never give out your last name and never give out your phone number and only give your email address to people you have meet in person. Clair.

The internet is a dangerous place. Not knowing who you’re talking to, not knowing anything about them, most importantly not knowing what they are capable of. Yes they might be nice and all at first…. I’ve learnt after 2 short minutes they can learn your hobbies, what your email address is, and your name. After 7 minutes they know your phone number and where you live. After 45 minutes they know as much as where your mum and dad work, things like your brothers and sisters name and your parent’s bank account details. SO DON’T GET SUCKED IN: Dylan

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I think that it is scary that these disgusting people have a right to do what they are doing to our young teenagers. Now I am going to think twice about what I write, think and do on a computer .When I played the game “Runescape” a person that I did not know came up to me and wanted me to buy some naked pictures of girls and wanted to get my e-mail address but I said no because I knew what he was doing: Dylan

Internet Safety………

If you are going to use MSN messenger, Chat rooms etc,
It is a good idea to keep personal information to yourself like: your last name, your phone number, your address etc.
It is also wise not to put any close up pictures of yourself or any one else on the net.
I think it should be compulsory for all students using MSN messenger or Chat rooms to be taught or spoken to about their safety on the internet.
Recently my class was spoken to about how to use internet safety and I totally agree with what was said.

By Emily.


We need to be safe on the internet other wise sometimes we may be talking to a paedophile. Do not send pictures of yourself or your full name and don’t even send our phone number or even where you live. So be very careful and make the internet very safe for yourself and your friends: Joshua

I had a guy come to the school and told us all about internet safety and how people can get on the internet and pretend to be someone there not. So I started to think and I recommend that if you don’t know the person you should never ever talk to them, no matter what. You should always remember your friends email address so if they try to be your friends you will know there not and if you take a picture don’t do any close ups of you or any one else. I think that if you get talked to about internet safety don’t do the wrong thing and don’t take it for granted.
Every school should be told about internet safety and to watch out for paedophiles.

From kaz .

Posting pictures and personal information about yourself can be extremely risky.
If you think about it anyone could find where you live, what your phone number is, your email address just by looking at your MSN My space (if you have one.)
My opinion is to just not open any junk mail you receive unless you know what it is and as I said before Do Not! Post pictures or post personal information (unless you want them to know everything about you yes im talking about the paedophile’s yes they are out there and they will go to all the trouble just to get near you, so I highly suggest not to do the opposite of what I just said: Matt

A person came into our class and told us about Internet Safety. He told us to never put close up photos of your face on the Internet because people can cut out your face and put it on someone else’s body with out you knowing a thing. He also told us to never put your surname and your phone number on the internet, because some people can find where you live and they can steal some of your stuff: Nathan

I had some one add me as one of there friends on a chat site I go on. And at first it didn’t bother me, but after a guy come and told us about the way pedophiles work I either blocked them or deleted them. it just annoys me that there are sick people out there that are willing to do these things. I feel really sorry for the people that are affected by these thing: Ricky

Our class had a guy from NETALERT, (which is like an Ozzy Net Safety Organisation.) Come and chat 2 us about stuff that can happen if you’re not careful on the net. It made me realise just how big of a danger zone it can be. Like, if you’re in a secluded Chat room talking 2 someone you don’t know and you give them your E-mail address, They could be paedophiles just waiting to locate all kinds of things including your phone number your details and even where you live!
………Be Safe People!
Ruby
I think that people should be aware about internet safety and paedophiles trying to rape children and hack into peoples msn yahoo and other chat sites and find there credit card number to steal there money. Sometimes they find all their details and find their address to stork and they might go to Google earth and look what they are doing and wait till the children are alone in the house the they would get ready to kidnap them and to rape and murder them. Other paedophiles go onto internet games and pretend to be young and no all the cheats and ask for credit numbers and home addresses and more detail to find where they live to find and rape them: Shaun

Like most teenaged girls I use the internet to talk to my friends and socialise, I usually put photos of myself and my friends as my display picture on the internet, but now I’ll think twice before I do that because I have all different e-mail addresses that have added me and I don’t know who they are, you never know who could see it, I also have a my space and I used to write my full name, what school I go to and what club I swim for, so If somebody wanted to find me they could really easily: Tara

New Zealand: Building a picture of the global cybercitizen

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ICT has introduced a wealth of new opportunities to people all over the world. In remote, isolated countries like New Zealand, the ease and speed with which global communication can now happen is expanding the lives of countless young people. Connecting with the world has never been easier for the roughly one million under 25 year olds living in the country at ‘the bottom of the world’.

Alongside the many positives that this new way of communicating brings, young ‘Kiwis’ (like all cybercitizens) need to be educated about the attendant risks. NetSafe, an independent not-for-profit organisation, is strategically aligned with New Zealand’s Ministry of Education to provide cybersafety education to all sectors of New Zealand society. Due to their widespread use of ICT and the particular vulnerability of this age group, we focus heavily on ways to help increase the cybersafety of young people.

NetSafe firmly believes that as young people the world over learn to navigate cyberspace in increasingly complex ways, it is imperative to equip them with the tools of good cybercitizenship. But what does this involve?

In our view, cybercitizenship extends beyond knowing how to use the technologies. Good cybercitizens have a responsibility to build and nurture the various online communities they are engaged with. An example of cybercitizens already acting at this level can be found in MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing games) communities, where gamers self-police and look after fellow community members by, for example, socially isolating ‘griefers’ (gamers who abuse others within the context of the games).

Additional, more individual responsibilities include taking ownership of one’s actions, using critical thinking skills to judge the veracity of material found online, making ethical and legal decisions about engaging in online activities, and developing strategies to deal with potentially risky or dangerous situations encountered in Cyberspace. As more and more web content becomes user-generated, many of these situations are in fact posed by fellow cybercitizens.

The global nature of the internet also means that people of every race, religion and lifestyle are interacting together on a daily basis. Global cybercitizenship calls for the development of a respect for and understanding of others’ views and ways of life. This doesn’t mean that a good cybercitizen blindly accepts every opinion they come across online; for example, young people need to be educated about the dangers of anti-social websites (such as those that advocate racist or sexist views). A healthy stance, then, is one that combines critical awareness and thinking, with a respect for others. This should enable young people to actively assess for themselves the merit of every opinion and view they come across in the online environment.

Through learning these skills, young people are better equipped to maximise the benefits and minimise the risks of ICT use.

NetSafe is developing a comprehensive set of curriculum resources for New Zealand schools to educate young people about the tools needed for safe and responsible cybercitizenship. We welcome your thoughts and comments on what cybercitizenship means to you. What are the characteristics of a good cybercitizen? Is it a global concept, or one that differs from country to country? How do you think the principles of cybercitizenship are best communicated to the young?

Check out the NetSafe website throughout the year to see how our education programme is growing, or receive regular updates by subscribing to our newsletter here.

Australia: crossing borders

The Internet allows us all to communicate, learn from and interact with people from all over the world. Living and learning with the world wide web can bring friendship and knowledge into our lives. It allows us to build bridges between people and cultures in a way that was never before possible. It means that we need to carefully navigate the fine line between our own rights, freedom, privacy and the rights of others.

In recent years there has been a growth in social networking and communication. We have more flexibility and opportunity to communicate with others. We can post images, personal information, video clips and our own personal thoughts online. However, the Internet is a public area and anything you post online however private can be viewed by any body else. We need to think of the consequences and the cost.

What are your thoughts?

Happy Safer Internet Day.

The staff at NetAlert - Australia's Internet Safety Advisory Body.

Commissioner Reding opens the second Insafe blogathon

portrait_main_t.jpg I very am happy to be once again writing the first message in the second global ‘blogathon’ for Safer Internet Day 2007. Safer Internet Day is truly a world-wide event, with 43 countries taking part and hundreds of exciting events being organised across Europe and around the globe. One of today’s highlights is the blogathon organised by Insafe, the EU network for internet safety awareness.

Over the past three months more than 200 schools have been working in cross-border partnerships to create awareness materials on the crucial topics of -privacy, netiquette, and the power of images, as part of the Safer Internet Day schools competition. Today you can see their excellent results on this blog, and I am sure you will agree that the jury had a very difficult task in choosing a winner for each category. It is now my pleasant task to announce the results:

Award for e-Privacy: Poland: Zespol Szkol Handlowo-Ekonomicznych w Bialymstoku and Bulgaria: PGGPT "Nikola Vaptsarov". Project title: “Modern communication tools - for and against our privacy

Award for Netiquette: Greece: Athens College and the Czech Republic: ZS TGM Mnichovice. Project title: “e-values

Award for Power of Images: Poland: Gimnazjum Nr 6 w Żorach and Greece: Primary school of Panagia Thassos. Project title: “The picture as the vehicle of bad and good news

Award for Innovation:
United Kingdom: Semley Primary School and the United States: Athens-Chilesburg Elementary School. Project title: “The Power of Image

As European Commissioner for Information Society and Media, I am very pleased that we can demonstrate the potential of information technologies in bringing people together across cultures and continents in such a lively way. Blogging is breaking down barriers between people, and is particularly exciting as it gives us a chance to hear the voices of many that may have been excluded in the past. In this way, it is really helping us to discuss, learn and grow together with people in other countries by expressing and exchanging our ideas. At the same time, we need to be aware of our own rights, while also respecting the privacy, freedom and rights of others.

I now declare the blogathon open, and invite internet safety organisations and citizens from across the world to express their thoughts on ‘Crossing Borders’. You are all invited to post comments from Safer Internet Day until 13 February, and enjoy the event with us!

Viviane Reding
European Commissioner for Information Society and Media

February 05, 2007

Poland-Portugal: "The strenght of a word, the strenght of a picture"

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The students of Publiczne Gimnazjum nr 5 w Radomiu (Polska) & Escola Secundaria do Cartaxo (Portugal), were wondering about the safety in the Internet. They learnt what information can bring the image? How should pictures be taken advantage of communicating by the Internet? Can the publication of the image harm someone?
The leading teacher in Poland was Anetta Kiraga, and in Portugal - Maria Fonseca.

The project realization:
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1) We made an Internet blog (a kind of a diary) for school taking part to exchange views about safety in the Internet. You can see the blog here
We introduced the competition for the story, slogan, or poem on the safety in the Internet. In the competition took part over 150 students. The results of the comtetition will be avaible in March.
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2) We made projects of computer graphics, banners, animations and art works, posters for competition slogans. Students were introducing pictures or images to the texts. They were wondering the role of the picture in the messange.

3) We organised debate on "The strenght of the word picture and voice - Is the Internet safe?" - Student were exchanging ideas on the topics - if pictures sent in the Internet are safe, what happens when they are sent to the public (on-line). They were talking about the autor's rights.
During the debate we introduced the art works and computer graphics, happening "The strenght of the picture".

Taking part in the competition "Safer Internet Day 2007" with our Portuguese partner was a great pleasure for us.

Our computer graphics:
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Our art works:
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Artistic happening:
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Debate:
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Vernissage:
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Thanks:
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The students and leading teacher thank Mrs. Alicja Chlebuś, Mrs. Anna Michnicka, Mrs. Dorota Ługowska, Mrs. Dorota Wróbel

Polish version:
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Uczniowie szkół partnerskich z Publicznego Gimnazjum nr 5 w Radomiu - Polska i z Escola Secundaria do Cartaxo w Portugalii zastanawiali się nad bezpieczeństwem w Internecie. Uczyli się jaką informację może nieść ze sobą obraz? Jak obrazy powinny być wykorzystywane w komunikowaniu się za pomocą Internetu? Czy opublikowanie obrazu może wyrządzić krzywdę?

Nasz projekt pod nazwą "Moc słowa, potęga obrazu, siła dźwięku" zorganizowany został w trzech etapach. Odpowiedzialność za prace konkursowe w po stronie polskiej ponosiła pani Anetta Kiraga, w Portugalii - Maria Fonseca.

1) W pierwszym etapie pt. "Moc słowa" utworzyliśmy dziennik internetowy - blog pod adresem http://bezpiecznyinternet.blog.onet.pl/ na temat "Czy jesteś bezpieczny w Internecie?" Na blogu ogłosiliśmy konkurs na opowiadanie, slogan, hasło, wierszyk dotyczący bezpieczeństwa w Internecie. W konkursie wzięło udział ok. 150 uczniów. W swoich pracach uczniowie wypowiadali się na temat tego, co chcieliby powiedzieć swoim rówieśnikom o Internecie. Rozstrzygnięcie konkursu nastąpi w marcu.

2) W drugim etapie pt. "Potęga obrazu" uczniowie projektowali i wykonywali grafiki komputerowe, banery, animacje a także prace plastyczne i plakaty do haseł konkursowych. Zastanawiali się czy i w jaki sposób obraz wzmacnia przekaz treści? Prace graficzne zostały zaprezentowane na blogu.

3) Trzeci etap pt. "Siła głosu" to była debata szkolna z udziałem uczniów. Uczniowie wymieniali poglądy na temat Internetu. Zastanawiali się czy zawsze mogą ufać innym, którzy publikują w Internecie. Co mogą zrobić, jeśli ktoś używa w niewłaściwy sposób ich zdjęcia lub zdjęcia kolegi lub koleżanki? Czy jakiekolwiek zdjęcie znalezione w Internecie może być użyte w dowolnym celu, co mówi o tym prawo autorskie? Czy wierzą w to, co widzą i czy zawsze mogą dać wiarę temu co widzą. Podsumowaniem debaty może był wierszyk jednego z uczestników konkursu: "Internet dobra sprawa, Internet dobra rzecz, aby korzystać dobrze, wystarczy rozum mieć"
Podczas debaty odbył się wernisaż grafik komputerowych i prac plastycznych, a także happening plastyczny "potęga obrazu". Chętni uczniowie poprzez obraz wyrażali swoje myśli na temat bezpieczeństwa w Internecie.

Nasz udział w konkursie "Dzień Bezpiecznego Internetu 2007" wraz z naszym portugalskim partnerem przyniósł nam wiele radości i korzyści.

Polen - Deutschland: Datenschutz im Internet.

Die Frage zum Thema Datenschutz im Internet ist heutzutage sehr aktuell. Deshalb haben wir uns dafür interessiert. Das Projekt ist gleichzeitig von der Jugend aus der Schule Zespół Szkół Ekonomicznych in Gorzów Wlkp. (Polen) und aus dem Oberstufenzentrum1 in Frankfurt Oder durchgeführt worden. Bei der Durchführung des Projektes haben wir uns auf die technischen Informationen zum Thema Datenschutz im Internet konzentriert. Unter Bezugnahme auf statistische Daten haben wir unsere Aufmenksamkeit auf die Gefahren im Internet gerichtet. Der andere Teil unseres Projektes ist dem Thema Verwaltung der Sicherungen im Internet gewidmet. Wir hoffen, dass unsere Arbeitsergebnisse ihr interessant findet.

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Download file - in Polnisch und Deutsch (Autor: die Jugend aus der Schule Zespół Szkół Ekonomicznych in Gorzów Wlkp.)

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Download file - in Deutsch (Autor: Oberstufenzentrum1 in Frankfurt Oder)

Autor Sebastian Furga, Łukasz Krajkowski
Betreuer Sylwia Czapla, Mariusz Biniewski

Poland-Belgium:Save Screen

The film concerns and discusses one of the important issue - unfortunately
often omitted - connected with the parental unawareness of dangers
awaiting for the child in the web Internet. It shows how parents are
concerning about a proper developement and education of their children,
dreaming about a bright future for them. Our film makes the adults and
young Internet users think - if you see it, you will become convinced.

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Spain-Italy: Correct use of the Internet

We have worked on making a poll between students of ten years about the correct use of the Internet.
They have selected a number of quentions for the poll and have passed the poll to their classmates.
We have changed the info with our partern school in Italy.
Finally we have corrected the polls and got the conclusions about the correct use of the Internet for ten years old students.

Example poster

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Power of Websites

As we are a group of children, who like to create and edit images and want to learn how to create great websites, our main goal was to find out the importance of images in building the websites. We wanted to know our friends opinion about our question - is the content of websites more important than the images. So we created a survey using simple questions. Our plan was to analyze the answers and the result of our analysis will be the information we needed.

Here are the questions from our survey:
1. List your favourite websites
2. Why do you like these websites?
3. Is the design of website more important than content?
4. List the websites, you don't like?

As a result of our survey we created a list of most liked and most disliked websites.
We found out, that all our pupils especially like one webpage - the search engine www.google.com. When we asked them why, the answer was the same - it is a great search engine.
Another website is Wikipedia because of the great content. Our pupils usually use Google or Wikipedia, when they search for online school material, and as these websites were the most popular websites, we got answer to our question - Content is the most important part of websites. Many of the selected websites were, of course, gaming websites. The most interesting thing for us was the fact, that one of the leading gaming websites, Miniclip was not rated as high as we have expected. It has a lot of nice images and many flash animations, so it was a great representative of the websites that use the power of image to gain more visitors. Gaming websites with best rating in our survey were some other gaming websites, that didn’t look so colorful and animated, but had a lot of great games with interesting game play.
In the last group of websites from our survey there were websites from popular music groups, mostly because of their popularity and secondly because of their appearance. These sites do not have very important content, but children still visit them now and then to see latest images or information about their favorite band.
From the results of our analysis we have made the following decision.
The images on the websites are important. Many children said, their favorite websites lack nice images and animated graphics, although they have great content and educational value. When we asked them, if they will stop using these websites because of their looks, they said no. On the other hand there were some websites, which children described as great sites with great animations, but without a lot of content, so they do not use these sites very often. In fact they could easily forget about them and not use them anymore.

The conclusion:
The power of images is strong for the first-time visitors, as the images can make you look at the website longer. When you are browsing the internet you can see a lot of websites, and you can not remember all of them. The ones that have nicer, more visible images are remembered more often. However, when you are a returning visitor, you quickly get bored by the same images and then only the content can keep you interested. When a website has great content, it can convince their visitors to return again, and it becomes more recognizable from the vast selection of websites on internet.

Greece and Portugal fórum in moodle platform discussing about image and security

The use of forum was very interesting. The students could think and talk about security and next students from Portugal and Greece could answer the questions and give their opinion.
Here is the site from ESAC portugal that was used by students from our two countries


Forum

SID page course in moodle

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you can see here an publisher document about security

The use of forum was very interesting. The students could think and talk about security and next students from Portugal and Greece could answer the questions and give their opinion.
Here is the site from ESAC portugal taht was used by students from our two countries


Forum

Greece - Portugal (protect yourself)

Safer Internet Day

Never happen to you enter in Messenger and think you are talking with a person that are not the same that are talking to you.
Or worst, never happen to you stolen your photo and making a montage or using it to take our identity and prejudice you from different ways.
Pay attention and don’t let that happen.
Be careful with what you publish in the Internet and with your behaviour.

Protect yourself !



Conclusion


ESCOLA SECUNDÁRIA AUGUSTO CABRITA

The Internet brought many inovations in people life.
But, despite of the indubitable benefits that the Internet provided, also new modalities of crimes came. One of them, in high, is the robbery of identity, that someone occurs when is seized private information of other persons, as photographs and uses them for irregular or illicit ends. While more persons pass it using the Internet as environment to know other persons and participate in chats, his photographs (images) acquire big value for impostors. Who be seized these given, in an environment in that the physical presence is not demanded, becomes-itself to own person.
By example: itself at first sight, do not have big value for criminals, can bring grave headaches, depending on as will go used. If some criminal it be seized his photographs and personal information, will be able to be connected to fórums/chats as went you and, it leave then, defame the its name or worse. Case these problems caused by the impostor are tracked, to first person it will be identified like author and all people thought that was you. For it be protected of the robbery of identity in the Internet, you must to know as act the impostors and like avoid that your personal facts are used innapropriatly.

Safer Internet Day

Never happen to you enter in Messenger and think you are talking with a person that are not the same that are talking to you.
Or worst, never happen to you stolen your photo and making a montage or using it to take our identity and prejudice you from different ways.
Pay attention and don’t let that happen.
Be careful with what you publish in the Internet and with your behaviour.

Protect yourself !



Conclusion


ESCOLA SECUNDÁRIA AUGUSTO CABRITA

The Internet brought many inovations in people life.
But, despite of the indubitable benefits that the Internet provided, also new modalities of crimes came. One of them, in high, is the robbery of identity, that someone occurs when is seized private information of other persons, as photographs and uses them for irregular or illicit ends. While more persons pass it using the Internet as environment to know other persons and participate in chats, his photographs (images) acquire big value for impostors. Who be seized these given, in an environment in that the physical presence is not demanded, becomes-itself to own person.
By example: itself at first sight, do not have big value for criminals, can bring grave headaches, depending on as will go used. If some criminal it be seized his photographs and personal information, will be able to be connected to fórums/chats as went you and, it leave then, defame the its name or worse. Case these problems caused by the impostor are tracked, to first person it will be identified like author and all people thought that was you. For it be protected of the robbery of identity in the Internet, you must to know as act the impostors and like avoid that your personal facts are used innapropriatly.



The publication of private images into Internet


A basic form that the impostors use for be seized someone else's facts in the Internet is prompting the own users of the net it supply these information. This can be deed of several ways:

- Through fraudulent and-mails, that use the name of dependable institutions or bring tempting offerings for that the users fill registers in that ask photographs and others given important personnels

- Copying faithfully pages of banks and other known companies and leading the users it agrees them for fill forms.

- Creating pages with free service, whose only objective is going to collect facts and private images, and diverse others.


ESCOLA SECUNDÁRIA AUGUSTO CABRITA



Work Team:
Rui Mochila Nº16 11ºG;
Micael Fatia Nº 10 11ºG;
Bruno Batista Nº 2 11ºG;
Natanael Garcez Nº11 11ºG;
Pedro Nunes Nº 12 11ºG.

February 04, 2007

Bulgaria_Greece: Manners

Our project consists of an animation made by Macromedia Flash and it presents a conversation via internet. The two dialogues are presented to show the plus and the minus points of the internet comunication and the use of the netiquette as a whole. Using the interactive animation tools, our aim is to encourage the young people to pay more attention on that how and with whom they communicate on the net.It is essential the youngsters to be careful and thoughtful and always to remember that the virtual communication is not only a pleasant adventure but it has its dark side as well

http://oniro.info/manners.exe

Portugal-Greece: "e-privacy cartoons"

Our presentation, named "e-privacy cartoons", is an educational cartoon, which can stand as a poster, concerning dangerous situations children face while surfing on the net, chatting or e-mailing. Our students exploited their humorous and artistic temper and imagination. They worked taking into account new things they have learned the last days about e-privacy.
The educational aim of this proposal is to make other students be aware of some of the dangers behind internet communications by giving tips to avoid them.

"Portugal-Sweden : Don't get fooled"

After having met Susanna and Johanna in an international workshop of eTwinning members, we became partners and we were ready to take any risks by working together on this kind of projects. So, our first challenge was the SEGURANET Project.
That’s how two Secondary Schools (one in Portugal – Jorge Peixinho Secondary School; another in Sweden – Lulea Gymnasieskola) gave birth to this project.
We have worked with 16-17-year-olds who got quite engaged and discussed, analised and interpreted this issue in their countries. Both groups worked on a Power Point presentation which they hope will make a difference.

Download our PowerPoint file

MALTA-POLEN: Umfrage "Ich und Internet" - Partie II (exemple)

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MALTA-POLEN: Umfrage "Ich und Internet" - Partie I (exemple)

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Poland - France: Savoir-vivre on-line.

Workshop for pupils of primary school (age of learners: 10- 12) The aims: -getting contact and discussion with a partner school -knowledge of social networking -knowledge of the Internet rules of "savoir- vivre" (netiquette) -using the rules of netiquette in the Internet working Methods and forms of working: "brain storm", discussion, project, working in groups; Materials:sheets of paper, pencils, crayons, markers, information about social networking and rules of netiquette- photocopies. Parts/ steps of the workshop 1. Introduction Fixing with the partner school ways/ tools of communication and a schedule of working (hours and days of meeting:once a month, 2:00pm ) 2. Realization of the workshop topic: A. Subdivision the class into 4 groups, establishing the leaders of the groups; B. Distributing the cards with topics of discussion -Group1- What bulletins / services/sites of social networking do you know? (Examples). What content do you look for there? -Group 2- What is the main subject of discussion forums? (Examples of topics under discussion on-line and in real life- similarities and differences). -Group 3- Who are the users of social networking? (Creating the set of users' profiles and comparison them with real people). -Group 4- What rules you should comply in the Internet community? (Formulating some rules of the safety in Internet). C. Presentation of groups. D. Discussion: Real or on-line? Which way of communication is more attractive for young people? E. Writing the conclusions on the sheets of paper (they are presented to the partner school). F. What does it mean: Netiquette? (its quality and value in everyday life) - " brain storm". G. Writing some rules of netiquette on the sheets of paper and placing them in the computer classroom. 3. Summing-up What would you like to communicate to other young people about social networking and netiquette? What are the rules of using the Internet and mobile phones safely? -Making posters/ projects by groups - competition. -Selecting the best works and posting them to the partner school (e-mail) with the conclusions of the previous discussion. -Invitation to exchanging the conclusions with the partner school. 4. Final product: Posters, conclusions of the discussion. zdjeciananeta081.jpg zdjeciananeta083.jpg

Videm Slovenia - Poznan Poland Power of image in our life

OSNOVNA ŠOLA VIDEM PRI PTUJU, Slevenia and GIMNAZJUM 5 – Gimnazjum Mistrzostwa Sportowego Poznan, Poland

Working on our project “Power of image in our life” we use ICT technology and had several NetMetting’s conferences, almost every week.
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We decided to show a positive influence of a picture. First we introduce our city and country by making a PowerPoint presentation.
Eliza, Basia, Gosia, Magda introduce yourselves. Download file
Poland Maciej Maciaszek and Lukasz Owczarzak part 1 Download file
Poland Maciej Maciaszek and Lukasz Owczarzak part 2 Download file
Old monuments and historical building in Poznan. Pawel Szczerkowski Download file

Power Point Presentation about our project. Videm Slovenia: Spela, Tjasa and Barbara Download file and film Download file

Zosia, Ania, Kasia and Piotr make a film "All about as". Film shows a swimming championship which take place in Poznan in January 2007. Next part of the film shows, how they spend free time on bowling and a welcom party to the New 2007 Year. Download file
We also prepare same posters, documents about safer internet.
Tomek Koscielniak, Poland; document about general rules on Internet Download file
Mateusz Juja, Poland; Poster may give you a warning about Internet. Mateusz Juja kl2a4.jpg
Piotr Bialek, Poland; two posters with the same text but different background pictures. Bezpieczenstwowsieci2.jpg BezpieczenstwowsieciBialek.jpg
During our meetings we discuss our filling while we look on posters. We all agree that the poster with two different background pictures make on us quite different impression depends on image. The black face makes much more aggressive outlook to everyone.

In our project participate 12 students from Poznan and 3 students from Slovenia.
teachers:
Slovenia: Robert Murko and Aksandra Skuk
Poland: Roma Cieslak

England-Poland : Stay Safe Online

We saw the Safer Internet Day competition as a focus for teaching the children in both our schools about the advantages and disadvantages of using the internet. As the children involved were so young they had little understanding of the dangers using the internet could pose for them. They used websites to find out about the issues and then produced some posters to reflect what they had learnt. Our partner school carried out the same activity and we exchanged posters via email.


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Italy-Poland: The silence of the mind

Our images concentrate on the power of attracting the attention of children and parents and on the exigency of protecting these categories of Internet users.
The first image represents the 'Men in Black' of the famous film protecting a computer in the shape of a lock; the weapons symbolize the all positive activity of defending the security of Internet users.
The second image relates to the ideas of innocence and tenderness of childhood, a child kissing a monitor on a grid background symbolizing an electronic circuit: It is a hope of how children should approach Internet.
The third image is again linked to the famous film 'Matrix' with the rain of codes hitting a red umbrella.

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SIS - Safer Internet Solutions

In this project, a group of Slovak and Spanish students discussed the topic of e-privacy.

First, they talked about the dangers on the Internet in general, and then answered the questions about chatting, misuse of personal data/photos, cyberbullying, viruses, erotic websites and dangerous information on the Net.

Then a group of computer-savvy students was selected who created a website with blogs and forums where they give more information and provide also space for comments and questions.

Now that the website is ready, both groups of students will read it and comment on what they have learnt.

Link: http://mail.gymzv8rocne.edu.sk/~sis/

Of course, the website is not only for the participating students but also for all of you who are interested in topics related to Internet safety. The team behind this project are looking forward to reading your comments and questions.

Golaszewska- Project "Safer Day"

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Action "Safe Internet" also in Poland