If you wouldn’t do it in the real world, then don’t do it in the virtual world. Web 2.0, blogs, wikis, Social networking, IM, the constant drive towards smarter and faster communication leaves many adults behind. Yet for our children this is simply the world that they live in. For them life without these technologies is as difficult for them to imagine as it would be for us to live without the telephone.
Many teachers talk about their lack of confidence when talking to children and young people and trying to educate them about how to stay safe on line. Teachers are unfamiliar with the technologies. They have little or no understanding about the types of things that take place using these “web 2.0” technologies. Yet do they need to? We all have a moral code and have values in life that we stand by. These morals and values should remain constant in all aspects of our lives and as such they should apply to both online and offline spaces.
Teachers are very confident when sharing what is acceptable with children and young people in their care. Although an understanding of technology can be helpful when talking to them about their behaviours in an online world, it is not a pre-requisite. The rules can be simple, if you wouldn’t do it in real life then don’t do it online.
Often making a direct comparison between the online and offline worlds can be helpful for children and young people to grasp the enormity of what they are doing. For example, would they be prepared to stick posters up all around the school which poked fun at a member of the school staff? Would it be acceptable to use profanity? Would it be alright to post phone numbers, provocative pictures and other material? The answer is NO. Although doing this from the safety of their house or bedroom can help to add to their feeling of security, children and young people need to realise that once something is posted online anyone can see it and they can never guarantee to take it back. Someone somewhere may have copied it and they will never know.
We mustn’t ban children and young people from using these technologies, but we must ensure that they have the right skills, knowledge and behaviours to keep them safe while they are using them.

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Die Anzahl der "Social Network Services" im Internet ist nicht mehr zu überblicken, die Angebote selbst kaum zu werten. Deshalb haben MedienpädagogInnen des Medienkulturzentrum Dresden die Angebote einer Prüfung unterzogen.
Es wurden folgende Social Network Services (SNS) auf Datenschutz, Transparenz und Nutzerfreundlichkeit etc. untersucht:
Jeder SNS wird kurz vorgestellt und die wichtigsten Ergebnisse zusammengefasst.
Die Untersuchung ist zu finden unter:
http://www.medienkulturzentrum.de/index.php?id=241#c534

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Proporcionar mecanismos para dotar al acceso a Internet de posibilidades de control para el usuario final, y que éstas le hagan sentir esa experiencia de navegación antedicha, resulta ser la clave de la diferenciación del ISP (“Internet Service Provider”) hoy en día. El operador de más calidad no sólo proporciona mejor caudal, sino que también proporciona mejor experiencia de navegación.

Entender el mensaje que lanza Internet como medio de comunicación individual es reconocer la posibilidad de gestionar su uso desde el navegante. Los perfiles de navegación son tan dispares que las diferentes experiencias de cada usuario con Internet no se pueden garantizar atendiendo a normas estáticas. Nos enfrentamos a un problema con muchas aristas y, por consiguiente, con muchas soluciones.

Existen usuarios profesionales de Internet que buscan información y utilizan operaciones con un gran nivel de implicación con la red. Por otro lado, están los usuarios de contenido y entretenimiento de Internet, cuyo nivel de uso se restringe al intercambio de información con ciertos servidores de Internet. Entre ambos extremos nos situamos los demás. Para unos y para otros, la red de redes tiene que asegurar la autenticidad de la información intercambiada. En este caso hablamos de autenticidad, referida a la certeza en el intercambio, y al conocimiento y la confianza sobre el contenido intercambiado.

Los proveedores de acceso a Internet pueden jugar un papel crucial en la garantía de esta experiencia de navegación. Bajo el punto de vista de cautivar el corazón de sus clientes, se encuentran en disposición de dar lo que el usuario quiere y no sabe pedir: ¡Calidad en la experiencia de navegación!

Rafael Vigil
Director General de Marketing de Optenet

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The thing about Internet Safety, of course, is that you’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t. You want to identify the dangers of the Internet without identifying the Internet as a place full of dangers....

Yes, it’s important to show how Bebo is abused by some users but how do you do that without demonising Bebo – and for Bebo please read any and all other social networking sites that exist and will exist in the near future. From media reports and staffroom gossip you’d swear only the depraved and dysfunctional use Bebo and to have a Bebo account is to be somehow unclean!

And there’s the rub! Or even the nub of teaching about Internet Safety. We warn about Bebo and lo and behold, it transmogrifies magically into Bete Noir and actually acquires a class of cool for all those “yoofs” and “emos” looking for another way to “beat the system” whatever that may be! So should we have mentioned it at all?

We tell about the dangers of chat-rooms, email, msn messenger, add your own here! Does this mean we are introducing new and more illicit ways for children to continue and even extend the bullying they may do in the yard, on the street? Is the Internet the modern Pandora’s Box releasing the all evils of mankind on the world but with no hope remaining!?

I don’t think so.

Strange how what goes around comes around for I see many parallels between the need to teach Internet Safety and the introduction of the Stay Safe programme many years ago. For that, the harbingers of doom predicted a flood of false accusations, an increase in bullying, the introduction of inappropriate content to those of tender years and the end of civil society in general, among others!

Similarly regarding Internet Safety today, there are those warning that children and the Internet are a bad mix and even go so far as saying that turning on the computer wasn’t such a good idea in the first place either. It’ll all end in tears, or worse, up on YouTube, I tell ya!

Thankfully none of the former came to pass with Stay Safe and this has found a natural and appropriate home in the RSE programme of the new curriculum, itself the natural home, I would think, for the Internet Safety programmes being rolled out here and now.

And so the message we’ve got to get across to parents and teachers alike, is that we don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater! Like it or not, anti-social behaviour such as bullying, cyber or otherwise, is here to stay, the Internet is here to stay and children are here to stay! Two out of the three ain’t bad, let’s keep it that way!
Gearóid Ó Duibhir
- ICT enthusiast, primary school teacher, journalist

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Internet Safety Day is an excellent opportunity for parents, teachers and young people across Europe to recognise the benefits and potential dangers of being online and take practical steps to use the internet safely. It is vitally important that parents, teachers and organisations like Becta take on the responsibility to ensure that our young people receive protection wherever and whenever they go online.

Young people respond to technology because they have grown up with it. For many, the online world offers endless opportunities to communicate, create, discover and be entertained in a virtual environment. As parents and teachers, we shouldn’t exclude it from their lives because we have a vague sense that it is ‘not a good thing’. We need to do what parents and educators have always done – harness their children’s passions and interests and use them to engage them in learning.

To support this, Becta have launched The Next Generation Learning campaign, which enables everyone to use technology to its full potential - if you’re a parent, it lets you get fully involved in your child's education; if you're a learner, it lets you learn how, when and where you want; and if you're an employer, it helps you train your workforce efficiently and effectively. To find out more visit www.nextgenerationlearning.org.uk

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- Stephen Crowne, Chief Executive, Becta

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Twaalf februari is door de Europese Commissie uitgeroepen tot de Safer Internet Day. Het initiatief is bedoeld om de brede samenleving te sensibiliseren over (on)veilig ICT-gebruik. De nadruk ligt steevast op het aspect communicatie: veilig chatten, seksueel misbruik via chatboxen, cyberpesten, pornografie op het internet, enz.

Om de Safer Internet Day te promoten, publiceerde de Europese Commissie een interessant filmpje (zie www.saferinternet.be). Je ziet een computermuis op een tafeltje en vervolgens een 10-tal stereotype handen die met de muis werken: die van een arts, een motard, een bloemenmeisje, een muzikant, een in leer uitgedoste hand. Het filmpje toont dat er mensen met verschillende intenties op het net rondsurfen en suggereert daarmee dat er ook mensen met slechte bedoelingen actief zijn: pedofielen, kinderlokkers,…. Nog op safer internet day wordt een vervolgrapport bekend gemaakt met een benchmark van allerlei contentfilters, dit zijn filters die verwerpelijke of schadelijke inhouden moeten tegenhouden.

Veilig ICT-gebruik is een complex gegeven en omvat meer dan dat. Er is ook de kwestie van auteursrechten, van technische zaken zoals spam, virussen, spyware en andere troep. Veilig ICT gaat ook over een gezonde computerplek. Vanwaar telkens die engere focus op schadelijke inhouden?

Het begint al bij de naam: het is niet Safe Internet Day, maar SafER Internet Day. Daarmee wordt gesuggereerd dat het internet feitelijk onveilig is. Ik vind dat een slecht onderbouwde aanname. Elke technologie kan ten goede of ten kwade gebruikt worden. Dat er misbruik kan zijn en ook is, hoeven we niet te illustreren, maar voor het overgrote deel gebruikt de gemeenschap het internet precies waarvoor het is bedoeld: om te communiceren, om informatie van allerlei aard uit te wisselen, om met een groep gelijkgezinden een online game te spelen, om zaken te delen of te verhandelen…

Jan de Craemer

Morele paniek

Is die enge focus op de mogelijk schadelijke invloeden van internetcommunicatie niet eerder een vorm van morele paniek? Internet is in geen tijd deel gaan uitmaken van de jongerencultuur. Gemid¬deld spendeert een twaalf- tot acht¬tienjarige anderhalf uur per dag aan activiteiten op internet. 95% van alle vijftienjarigen heeft thuis toegang tot pc en internet. Meer dan vier op vijf jongeren chat minstens een keer per week. Meer dan de helft van de zes¬tienjarigen downloadt elke week mu¬ziek of films van het internet…

Veel ouders vragen zich af wat jongeren in godsnaam uren op die computer zitten te doen. Wel, ze communiceren. Ze kletsen gewoon. Ze lossen huistaken op en praten over wat er in de klas gebeurde. Of ze “babbelen” gewoon over niks. Als er maar contact is. Ze testen uit hoe anderen op hen reageren - een stap in hun zoektocht naar persoonlijkheid en identiteit. Chat¬ten is ook een graadmeter voor hun populariteit: het gaat erom zo veel mogelijk chatvrienden te hebben. De digitale wereld betekent voor heel wat jongeren een andere en bredere waaier van mo¬gelijkheden tot experimenteren. Alles gebeurt sneller, is ano¬niemer, toegankelijker. De kansen voor nuttige experi¬menten liggen dus voor het grijpen.

Natuurlijk gebeuren er ongelukken in de digitale wereld. Precies zoals in de gewone wereld. De media laten niet na om dergelijke ongelukken dik in de verf te zetten. Ouders en opvoeders merken bovendien al heel vroeg dat ICT zeer sterk deel uitmaakt van de kinder- en jongerencultuur, terwijl ze er zelf op technisch vlak veel minder van afweten. Enerzijds wordt de computer ingeschakeld om kinderen “rustig bezig te houden”, anderzijds creëert het gebrek aan eigen computervaardigheden een extra angst om de controle over hun kinderen kwijt te raken. De overdreven aandacht in allerlei media en het gebrek aan eigen vaardigheden versterkt de foute perceptie dat de virtuele wereld wel een erg gevaarlijke plek is.

Jongeren kritisch, weerbaar en alert maken

Belangrijk is dus dat jongeren kritisch, alert en weerbaar genoeg zijn om de verlokkingen van hen die het minder goed voorhebben te weerstaan. Knelt daar het schoentje? Geenszins. Het is ver zoeken naar jongeren die zomaar ingaan op het oneerbaar verzoek van een wildvreemde. Uit een onderzoek dat de VRT voor het programma koppen liet uitvoeren blijkt dat de Vlaamse jeugd overwegend gezond reageert op seks op internet. Een jongere op vier kreeg het voorbije jaar wel eens een seksuele getinte vraag. Maar de grote meerderheid (7 op 10) vindt dit niet tof en slechts 23% antwoordt ook op dit soort vraag. Als ze antwoorden, gebeurt dit omdat ze de gesprekspartner vertrouwen of omdat ze er verliefd op zijn (56%). Vier jongeren op tien reageren omdat ze dat span¬nend of leuk vinden. Acht jongeren op honderd kregen ook de vraag om iets seksueels te doen voor de webcam. Twee on¬dervraagde jongeren uit de steekproef toonden ook effectief geslachtsdelen. Dat waren jongens uit de leeftijdsgroep van 17 tot 18 jaar die dat ‘spannend’ vonden. Acht meisjes (1,5%) zetten het voorbije jaar wel eens sexy foto’s van zichzelf online.

Is er dan helemaal geen opdracht voor ouders, leerkrachten en opvoeders? Zeer zeker, weerbaar, alert en kritisch word je immers niet vanzelf. Betrokkenheid van opvoeders en ouders bij de (ICT-)activiteiten van jongeren is daarvoor een randvoorwaarde. Het punt is dat niemand er aan denkt zijn kinderen alleen achter te laten in een speeltuin, waarom dan wel in de virtuele speelruimte? Als tienjarigen op hun kamer een PC hebben staan en daar zonder enige controle met een paar muisklikken het web op kunnen, moeten we niet verbaasd zijn dat die kinderen vatbaar zijn voor allerlei misbruik.

Voor alle duidelijkheid: Internetfilters die schadelijke inhouden moeten tegenhouden of software die het internetgedrag van de gebruiker opvolgt zijn geen alternatief voor ouderlijke betrokkenheid. Geen enkele filter is immers waterdicht en in veel gevallen zeilen de jongeren er zelf in een mum van tijd omheen. Filters creëren bovendien de gevaarlijke illusie dat technologie de opvoedende taak van ouders zou kunnen overnemen. De virtuele “netnanny” houdt ons kind wel in het oog. Niet dus. Betrokkenheid houdt in de eerste plaats in dat je weet waarmee je kinderen bezig zijn en verder dat je daarover ook met hen in dialoog treedt.

Naast betrokken zijn, moet je als leraar en ouder jongeren mee motiveren om grenzen te stel¬len en risico’s te vermijden. “Pubers kunnen een pésthekel heb¬ben aan de regels en grenzen die volwassenen hen opleggen, maar diep in hun hart hebben ze er ook ontzettend behoefte aan,” stellen Justine Pardoen en Remco Pijpers in ‘Verliefd op internet’.

Je behoedt leerlingen op de speelplaats voor vechtpartijen, pesterijen,… In het park hou je in het oog dat waaghalzerij niet tot ongelukken leidt. Je leert je kinderen veilig de straat oversteken. Leer ze ook veilig surfen.

Jan De Craemer

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If you’ve a teenage son or daughter who spends most nights divided between the telly, text messaging and Bebo, it would be easy to worry excessively about the vulnerability of your child online.

I have a blog on which I casually voice my opinions on everything from housework to television to politics. Completely inadvertently, I have found myself drawn into arguments and problems with a moral complexity that never occurred to me when I started out. I discussed a murder case once and ended up in a correspondence with a friend of the accused. I referred once, in the vaguest way and without naming names, to an argument I had with a friend. When she recognised herself being discussed on the Internet she was furious and we had a big fight.

Every time one of these things happened I was completely shocked. The Internet has a power beyond anything we can conceive. Anything you publish online can be read forever, by anyone, anywhere in the world. You can create a mountain of trouble for yourself and unintentionally inflict pain on someone else. I should be able to handle the complexity of this powerful medium yet I find myself struggling to cope with the challenges it presents. I’m supposed to be a grown up. If I have trouble with my online life, how can a teenager be expected to navigate the moral minefield of the Internet?

Imagine all the humiliations and miseries that you suffered as an adolescent. Imagine having to do all that again – except under the gaze of the always-online world. The drunken snog isn’t some embarrassing and transient event you hope everyone will forget about next week. Now there’s a photograph online to tell everyone you know and everyone you don’t, that you made a show of yourself. Do you cringe when you think of the self-pitying diary you kept as a teenager or the letters you wrote to a pop star or DJ? At least they are long binned. Think of the utter humiliation if they turned up online, maybe as the result of a Google search by a prospective employer. Perhaps a political view you held as a 16 year old from which you long recanted, is still out there on some silly website. The catty comment you made about a friend isn’t a gossipy aside in the pub –it’s in an email and she reads it and you’ve just lost a friend.

These are the kind of disasters your child is going to encounter online. You can’t keep them off the Internet – it’s here and you have to deal with it. What can you as a parent, teacher or friend do to help them out?

The first thing is: keep your head. Your teenager probably holds pretty firmly to the view that you don’t have a clue. If you do a “Here Be Monsters” line on them about the chatrooms, they’ll just throw their eyes to heaven. It’s the equivalent of screeching that all drugs must be heroin. The temptation is to spy on them. I wouldn’t recommend this as a general policy. If anyone read my texts or emails I would be outraged at the invasion of privacy. If your teenager finds out you are reading their emails, they’ll just create another address and not tell you about it. Looking over their shoulder simply drives them away. Having said that, I think the idea of allowing teenagers to have an Internet connected computer in their own bedroom is crazy. Keep the computer in the living room. That way you’ll know how long they are spending on it and if they burst into tears because they’ve seen something awful written about themselves, then you know about it.

After that there are really only two things you can do. The first is try and warn them, perhaps with the help of a school programme, about the different kinds of trouble they can meet online. Ask them how much of themselves do they really want to reveal online? We live in a confessional world – what are the draw backs? Just because we know about Paris Hilton’s sex life, do you think it’s a good idea that everyone knows about yours? Should they work out what things are said verbally, and what things are said online? Look at an email before you send it and ask yourself, what are the consequences of anyone other than the intended recipient reading this? How would they feel about that photograph being seen in ten years? Just because your child is robust and can absorb sarcastic and jokey comments, a more sensitive friend might be really upset. Don’t worry they’ll be bullied, be aware they could be a bully. In other words, encourage them to think about the implications of an online life. Make it a conversation, not a lecture.

The final thing is the strategy that I really hope I can effectively employ as my children grow older. Plead with them: if there is any problem that they have, any worry or any concern, please come to you about it. Make it clear that if they are gay, pregnant, slutty or frigid, you don’t care – you just want them to talk to you about it. Don’t worry about what happens when your child talks to strangers. If they can talk to you without fear of judgement or recrimination, then they won’t need to talk to strangers in the first place.
Sarah Carey
Journalist, parent, blogger

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Ko zagledaš malčka, sedečega v očkovem naročju, ki že pritiska na tipke računalnika, si v smehu rečeš: »Poglej ga!«

Ko vidiš kratkohlačnika, ki zna že marsikaj najti celo na internetu, občudujoče pripomniš: »Kako otroci napredujejo!«

Ko spoznaš najstnika, ki se pogovarja s prijateljem preko luže, kupuje, prodaja, tekmuje, ... in najde vse to kar je večini celo »skrito,« zavzdihneš: »Neverjetno!«

A, ko izveš, da je mladenič dvajset od štiriindvajsetih ur dnevno preživljal za sodobno »škatlo,« pozabil na realni svet, šolo in prijatelje, sedaj pa je zaradi odvisnosti na psihiatriji, se zgroziš: »Je to mogoče? Kdo bi si to mislil!«

Bodimo torej previdni in zasvojenost preprečimo!





Vlasta Nussdorfer
generalna sekretarka Belega obroča Slovenije

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La televisión y el mundo de las pantallas(Internet, videojuegos, móvil, etc.,)tienen un notable efecto sobre las actitudes y los valores de los menores que son más vulnerables a todo aquello que se les presenta.

El niño está evolucionando al tiempo que se le proyectan las imágenes, mientras que los adultos tienen ya formadas ideas sobre los objetos que contemplan. Por eso, mientras que un adulto ve la tele, un niño vive la televisión.

La intervención de la televisión en el menor se produce desde un momento de su vida en el que no está en condiciones de ser libres para aceptar o no los contenidos de la programación y carecen de los mecanismos de defensa necesarios con los que hacer frente a estos contenidos y discernir de su fiabilidad

El actual conocimiento de la televisión constata que los niños permanecen tres o más horas diarias frente al televisor y se les presenta cada día, gran variedad de contenidos e imágenes atractivas que en muchas ocasiones no son adecuadas para ellos.

En una semana de programación televisiva, los niños ven 250 homicidios, 848 luchas, 15 secuestros de adultos y 14 de menores, 419 tiroteos, 11 robos, 8 suicidios, 32 capturas de rehenes, 27 casos de tortura, 18 imágenes sobre drogas, 9 defenestraciones, 13 intentos de estrangulación y 50 escenas de sexo explícito.

Por lo tanto cabe decir que los medios de comunicación y las instituciones públicas y privadas tienen una gran responsabilidad en este asunto.

Para ello, las Asociaciones de Telespectadores trabajan día a día para concienciar a la sociedad de la enorme influencia de las pantallas en los menores y apuestan por defender los intereses de los más débiles.

Ana Muñoz del Guayo
Directora de Comunicación de ICMEDIA

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An old German saying goes "Jeder ist seines Glückes Schmied". Or in English: Man forges his own destiny. In the digital era that means: It depends on you what you get out of the Internet: digital opportunities or digital dangers.

The motto for the Safer Internet Blogathon 2008 "Life online is what YOU make of IT" mirrors the results of an international experts' survey carried out by the Youth Protection Roundtable. More than half of the respondents from 26 European countries locate the responsibility for safe and secure use of the Internet with the users themselves.

Download the complete survey results as a PDF

But not everybody is able to realise the risks of the virtual world and to deal with them appropriately. The more the opportunities grow the more education for digital literacy is needed, for children as well as for adults. All experts, who took part in the survey, agreed to highest priority for children's empowerment and parental control to prevent young people from encountering unwanted and harmful content while being online.

While for adults the Internet has become a part of their life, for young people it seems to be their life. They are really familiar with the Internet and the new Web 2.0 appliances and they have the technical skills to make the best of IT. But do they always know what they are doing there and do they care about the consequences of their online behaviour? We as adults have to admit that we are not fully aware of the virtual life of the younger generation. Having in mind the brilliant contributions of young people to this year's Safer Internet Day Competition I reckon that we need more intergenerational dialogue to master the challenges of the Internet era. Therefore we have invited national winners of the Safer Internet Day Competition for the next meeting of the Youth Protection Roundtable in May 2008 to share with the adult experts their view of the digital life and to discuss which measures would be acceptable to them.

Every child is unique. Let us take joint action to keep them safe while being online. That is the mission of the Youth Protection Roundtable where technicians and pedagogues from 32 European organisations and companies are gathering to learn from each other and to share their knowledge about pedagogical measures and technical solutions like filter software.

The complete results of the survey are available on the project website www.yprt.eu/survey

For more information please mail to kunze@yprt.eu

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Bijna alle gezinnen met tieners beschikken over een computer met internetverbinding
Vrijwel alle (98%) gezinnen met tieners hebben een computer met internetverbinding thuis, in bijna alle gevallen (94%) met breedband. Van de tieners gebruikt 82% dagelijks internet thuis tegenover 50% van de ouders. 76% van de gezinnen heeft 2 of meer computers thuis en 42% zelfs 3 of meer. Als er één computer in huis is, dan staat deze in bijna de helft (48%) van de gevallen in de woonkamer, bij elke extra computer in huis neemt de kans sterk toe dat er één op de kamer van een jongere staat. Meer dan de helft (55%) van de tieners heeft een computer op de eigen kamer; 43% van hen beschikt over een computer op de eigen kamer met een internetverbinding. Deze laatste jongeren gebruiken internet langer, chatten langer op msn en hebben ook vaker een eigen website.

Bijna alle tieners gebruiken msn. Eén op de drie ouders heeft zelf een msn-account
Bijna alle tieners (95%) gebruiken msn. 69% doet dit dagelijks en 62% doet dit langer dan een uur per keer. De meeste (90%) jongeren vinden face-to-face contacten het belangrijkst, terwijl msn door 77% van hen belangrijk wordt gevonden. Het versturen van brieven met de post of het chatten in een chatroom zijn het minst populair (beide 10%). Voor een serieus of belangrijk gesprek verkiezen tieners echter de telefoon boven msn. De meesten hebben meer dan 100 contactpersonen in hun msn contactpersonenlijst staan, maar 70% heeft met minder dan 20 personen daadwerkelijk regelmatig contact. De helft van de tieners gebruikt een webcam bij het msn’en. Eén op de drie ouders heeft zelf een msn account. Bijna de helft (45%) van alle ouders zegt goed te weten wat msn inhoudt. Slechts één op de tien jongeren is het ermee eens dat tieners die niet msn’en er niet meer bijhoren.

Vaders vaak vaardiger bij moeilijke ict-taken
Ouders schatten hun tieners vaardiger in dan zichzelf en bovendien vaardiger dan de tieners zichzelf inschatten. Toch zijn tieners niet aanzienlijk beter in relatief makkelijke vaardigheden dan hun ouders (zoals zinnen verplaatsen in een tekst, afbeelding roteren, emailverzendlijst maken e.d.). Hooguit de helft van de tieners heeft moeilijker vaardigheden onder de knie (zoals. windows of een anti-virus programma installeren, een harde schijf plaatsen). Hier zijn de vaders duidelijk handiger in, ook wanneer de vaders worden vergeleken met de zonen. Als er al een digitale gezinskloof bestaat dan is dat tussen de moeders en rest van de gezinsleden. Moeders maken minder vaak gebruik van de computer en het internet, op minder diverse wijze en hebben ook minder vaardigheden. In de meerderheid van de gezinnen helpen gezinsleden elkaar met het internetgebruik. Bijna de helft (45%) van de tieners zegt de juistheid van informatie op internet te checken.

Meerderheid ouders op de hoogte van computeractiviteiten, internetzoekgedrag en msn-gedrag
Circa twee op de drie ouders weet wat hun tiener wel en niet op de computer doet en op internet zoekt al denken minder ouders dat hun tiener zich hiermee bezig houdt dan de tieners zelf aangeven. Ook weten de ouders vrij goed wat hun tiener wel en niet op msn doet. Hierbij onderschatten ze wel de frequentie en de duur van het msn-gebruik. Van de tieners met een website (bv. profielsite) is meer dan de helft (55%) van de ouders hiervan niet op de hoogte. 13% van de ouders weet wel dat hun kind een site heeft maar weet niet wat erop staat, 23% weet dat een beetje en 9% is daarvan goed op de hoogte. De helft van de tieners heeft nieuwe vrienden leren kennen via internet, een ruime meerderheid (78%) van hen heeft deze nieuwe contacten deze ook in het echt ontmoet. De meeste ouders van deze tieners zeggen dat hun tiener volgens hen geen nieuwe internetvrienden in het echt heeft leren kennen.

Hebben ouders te veel vertrouwen in het eigen kind op internet?
‘Gewenst gedrag’ van het eigen kind wordt overschat. 81% van de ouders geeft aan dat het kind volgens hen de computer wekelijks of vaker gebruikt voor huiswerk, tegen 62% van de tieners. ‘Ongewenst gedrag’ wordt onderschat. Risico’s op internet worden over het algemeen herkend maar minder ouders denken dat deze voor het eigen kind gelden. De helft van de ouders meent dat veel jongeren via msn worden gepest, maar slechts 4% denkt dat hun eigen kind wel eens pest, terwijl 12% van de tieners aangeeft dit wel eens te doen. 37% van de tieners zegt dat ze wel eens iemand voor de gek houden via msn door zich als een ander voor te doen; 9% van de ouders denkt dat dit het geval is. 85% van de ouders maakt zich zelden of nooit zorgen over de mogelijkheid dat hun kind ongewenst gedrag vertoont via de webcam, msn en op het web geplaatste foto’s. De meerderheid (56%) van de ouders controleert het websitebezoek van hun tiener niet omdat ze hem of haar vertrouwen. 65% van de ouders maakt zich zelden of nooit zorgen dat hun kind een privé-leven op internet heeft waar ze geen zicht op hebben.

In de minderheid van de gezinnen wordt voorlichting gegeven over internet of regels gesteld
Slechts in een minderheid van de gezinnen geven ouders hun kinderen voorlichting over onbetrouwbare informatie, porno, geweld of racistische uitspraken op internet. Hetzelfde geldt voor regels over hoelang en wanneer er gebruik mag worden gemaakt van internet en welke websites bezocht mogen worden. Meer ouders geven aan dat er voorlichting gegeven is of regels gelden dan de tieners aangeven. De meeste ouders (67%) praten minder dan eens per week of zelden tot nooit met hun tieners over internetgebruik.

Dit zijn de belangrijkste conclusies uit de SCP-publicatie Nieuwe links in het gezin. De digitale leefwereld van tieners en de rol van hun ouders (SCP-publicatie 2007/2), geschreven door Marion Duimel en Jos de Haan, Den Haag, Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau, maart 2007, ISBN 978 90 377 0287 3, prijs € 17,90. De publicatie is verkrijgbaar bij de boekhandel of te bestellen bij het SCP via fax 070 – 340 7044, en gratis de downloaden van www.scp.nl.

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La familia juega un papel fundamental en la evolución de la sociedad del conocimiento. Los hijos, en cierta manera, reproducen los patrones de hábitos de los padres. Es más probable que un hijo lea si los padres tienen el hábito de hacerlo. Aunque algunos padres desconocen la utilización de las TIC, sin embargo, los hijos las manejan con soltura, y sí podrían aprender de los padres cómo utilizarlas de manera productiva y formativa.

Es importante que los padres y las madres sepamos utilizar estas tecnologías para que no exista un salto generacional demasiado amplio con nuestros hijos y podamos compartir con ellos sus inquietudes en este campo y así, en cierta manera, poder influirles para hacer un uso correcto. Padres y profesores debemos dar herramientas a los menores para utilizar adecuadamente la información y transformarla en conocimiento, enseñándoles a desechar los contravalores.

Pedro Rascón
Vicepresidente de la Confederación
Española de Asociaciones de Padres y Madres de Alumnos (CEAPA)

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Industry analysts say the Internet is maturing. About a week ago Microsoft announced its unsolicited billion dollar offer for Yahoo! and the software giant promised to “drive innovation in emerging scenarios such as video, mobile services, online commerce, social media, and social platforms”.

Whatever the outcome of the proposed deal, the combination would clearly represent a major new force in the evolving world of web-based communications. And it would be a sign of a maturing business.

Though this might be true, there are still a number of issues to work on. One of those is Internet safety. The safety implications of the Internet will be scrutinized on February 12 as more than 40 countries mark ‘Safer Internet Day’. A number of communications groups, media companies, regulators and government authorities will use the event to debate the safety issues – particularly for children – of instant access to potentially unlimited and unfiltered information.

Companies operating in the internet industry – from the giants mentioned to the smallest internet service providers – have a responsibility for the integrity of the service they provide. That responsibility extends to the distribution platforms carrying internet traffic, such as UPC Broadband, which operates in 10 European countries. We are among the broadband distributors to endorse vital initiatives to make the internet a safer place for children and young people.

Those initiatives will be highlighted by today’s focus on internet safety, co-coordinated by INSAFE, a network of national organizations, like DigiBewust in the Netherlands, set-up and co-funded within the framework of the European Commission’s Safer Internet plus Programme.

Participating companies believe the enormous opportunities created by the internet do not come entirely without risks, particularly for younger and more vulnerable users. Internet safety is therefore becoming an ever more important issue - and as internet use across the globe increases and we all spend more and more time online, its importance will continue to grow.

Companies like UPC, which provide broadband connections to more than 10 million customers in Europe, must take our service and responsibilities to the next level. One of the most important ways in which we can protect young people is by raising awareness of the risks children may face online and educating them on how to avoid such risks. It’s about digital literacy.

UPC's Internet Safety Toolkit

To underline this we have developed - in partnership with INSAFE - a pan-European internet safety toolkit. The ‘toolkit’ is translated into 11 major European languages and explores online safety issues, offering parents and young people advice on how to overcome them.

This interactive family toolkit consists of a parent’s guide , an activity-based guidebook
designed specifically for children between 6-12 years old, stickers, a family certificate
and situation cards , making internet safety education fun, engaging and non-threatening. The toolkit will be distributed through a range of channels, including local Insafe partners, schools and our company. The toolkit is published on the 12th of February as part of the Insafe’s Safer Internet Day initiative.

As a partner of INSAFE we support their work to raise awareness of Internet safety across Europe. We also engage in other awareness raising activities, including special websites for children and youngsters, digital school centres in a number of European countries, in order to fill the knowledge gap: developing promotional materials around the issue, supporting parent-teacher evening classes and supporting various NGOs such as child helplines with the development of online counselling chatrooms.

Our efforts to protect children in the online environment are now extending beyond awareness-raising. We also include practical measures which we believe can help prevent the spread of child sexual abusive content on the web. According to a recent INHOPE report (the international association of internet hotlines reporting illegal content), child pornography grew by 15% every year, between 2004 and 2006, which is indicative of the scale of the problem.

Child Pornography Block in the Netherlands and Switzerland

Our Dutch and Swiss affiliates have taken the lead on this by partnering with national police forces and NGOs to ‘black-list’ websites containing child pornography. Any attempt to access sites with child abusive content initially prompts a ‘STOP’ page on the screen which contains a warning and an explanation of why the site is blocked. Our actions have been overwhelmingly welcomed by parents and other societal stakeholders. It is these close public/private partnership that make these initiatives successful.

It is our goal to expand activities related to safe internet in the near future. And we also want to further liaise and deepen our relationships with governments, NGO’s and special interest groups. We are learning through our contacts and public/private partnerships how we can help parents & children and make the digital world an interesting and secure place to be.

As this industry consolidates, the responsibilities on the leading players will intensify. It is up to companies operating in this space to ensure, as internet use continues growing, that it does so safely.

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El Proyecto Acompañando sus Pasos hacia el Desarrollo es una iniciativa que la Fundacion Paniamor desarrolla desde agosto 2007. Busca fortalecer Competencias de Empleabilidad para una mejor incorporaciòn de poblacion adolescente en desventaja social, en ambientes laborales; competencias que les permitan un mejor desarrollo personal, social y laboral, contribuyendo asi, a la busqueda de mejores condiciones de vida y a la ruptura de ciclos intergeneracionales de pobreza y exclusion.

Para ello , en lo local se desarrollan procesos de formacion con las y los jovenes, asi como procesos de movilizacion comunitaria con padres, madres, lideres y la comunidad en general, en funcion de diseñar estrategias locales pro seguridad de niños, niñas y adolescentes.

Una de las estrategias de formacion que se desarrollan con poblacion adolescente es el TecnoBus...

TecnoBus: Tecnologia sobre Ruedas por y para las y los Adolescentes

Una de las areas de trabajo de este proyecto consiste en fortalecer en adoescentes las destrezas, conocimientos, habilidades y valores necesarios para hacer un uso significativo de las TICs, de manera que se aproveches sus potencialidades y se mitiguen sus riesgos.

Para lo cual, el tema del uso seguro y responsable de estos recursos es un tema de fondo que se aborda de manera permanente durante el proceso de formacion, mismo que busca acompañar a las y los adoelscentes en el reconocimiento de las TICs como un derecho y como una herramienta privilegiada que potencia desarrollo, si es empleada de manera segura y responsable.

De ahi nuestro interes en hacer eco de la campaña SID 2008, ya que las caracteristicas del Proyecto lo convierten en una oportunidad que potencia la participaciòn adolescente.

En cuanto a la campaña, planeamos tres actividades:

1. Collages digitales alusivos: Desde el TecnoBus los participantes del taller de Gimp (sofware libre para diseño), contruyen collages sobre el uso seguro y responsable de la Internet, los cuales seran colocados en la red y compartidos con todo el mundo.

Valery Varela de 16 años diseño el seiguiente collage

"este collage muestra en una parte el peligro de tener un mal uso de internet , pero lo importante es que los jovenes y las personas en general mantengamos una actitud de responsabilidad con ello"

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Ana Maria Carvajal de 16 años

"en este collage quize reflejar que el Internet es ahora nuestro mejor camino hacia la tecnologia, ademas nosotros los usuarios podemos contar con mas seguridad en la red, esto nos permite ingresar a cualquier pagina con menos riesgos que antes, esto obviamente, haciendo un uso responsable."

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Nodier Cordero de 19 años

""El internet seguro es muy inportante para todos ya que es un medio de informacion que muchas personas utilizan diariamente,pero debemos tener cuidado y no dar informacion alos desconosidos"

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2. Cine Foro: Password: una mirada en la oscuridad. Pelicula de produccion costarricense que aborda el tema de como el uso no adecuado del Internet, puede ser un factor que contribuya a la construccion de relaciones interpersonales no seguras, acarreando riesgos de caer en las garras de redes nacionales e internacionales de trata y explotaciòn sexual.

Los cineforos seran dos:

Sabado 9 de Febrero, dirigido a Adolescentes ( este espacio conto con la participacion de 30 adolescentes, asi como el equipo del Proyecto, conto con el apoyo del Radiografica Costarricense -proveedor nacional de Internet- y la Municipalidad de Santa Ana.

Martes 12 de Febrero Dirigido a Padres, Madres, lìderes y a la comunidad en general, se desarrollara en la biblioteca publica de la comunidad donde se implementa el Proyecto.

Desde Santa Ana, Costa Rica y en nombre de todas las personas e instituciones que participan directa o indirectamente en el Proyecto, damos a conocer a la comunidad mundial nuestro apoyo a las campañas que buscan desde diferentes frentes convertir a las Tecnologias de la Informaciòn y la Comunicacion, en espacios seguros y accesibles para todos y todas.

Sigamos adelante...

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The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) operates the internet ‘Hotline’ in the UK for the public to report potentially illegal internet content.

Working in partnership with law enforcement agencies, government, internet and mobile industries and international Hotlines, the IWF works to minimise the availability of child sexual abuse content, as well as block access to it, for the protection of internet consumers.

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

As a result, less than 1% of potentially illegal content has apparently been hosted in the UK since 2003, down from 18% in 1997.

In partnership with many organisations we strive to create continued awareness of the role and purpose of the IWF and aim to foster trust and reassurance in the internet for current and future users.

What do we mean by illegal content on the internet?
This refers to images and occasionally text that contain any of the following:
• Child sexual abuse content hosted anywhere in the world
• Criminally obscene content hosted in the UK
• Incitement to racial hatred content hosted in the UK

Don’t ignore it, report it!
If you genuinely stumble across such images or are inadvertently exposed to them you must report them to the Internet Watch Foundation, the relevant Hotline in your country or to the police.

You must not deliberately seek out potentially illegal child sexual abuse images; deliberately viewing them is a serious criminal offence.

Why should I report these images?
Behind every image is a child who has suffered real sexual abuse. Every time these images are viewed, that abuse is perpetuated. Reports from the public enable us to work, in partnership with many in the UK and abroad, to remove this content, help restrict access to it, and inform the investigative activities that could bring those responsible to justice and rescue children from suffering.

How do I report?
Go to the Internet Watch Foundation’s website www.iwf.org.uk and complete the step-by-step form. The form is easy to navigate and reports can be submitted anonymously.

What about other suspicious or criminal activity online?
The Internet Watch Foundation is unable to take reports or help with queries that fall outside of the three categories listed above. We do, however, provide a great deal of information on our website and our FAQ section is a valuable resource for issues outside our remit.

What about the future?
The internet continues to bring new opportunities to many aspects of society and Hotlines have an important role to play in sharing experience and exchanging expertise with individuals, companies, Governments and other organisations to promote informed responses to challenges brought about by the global and dynamic nature of the internet and increasingly widespread internet access.

UK experience has led to many opportunities for us to share expertise around the world with organisations seeking to adapt our model to respond to new and emerging forms of internet criminality.

For more information, please visit: www.iwf.org.uk

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Fundación Paniamor / Proyecto Clubhouse 25 de Julio
Costa Rica

¨Hay que ser astuto¨, comentaba María Fernanda Witter, de 15 años de edad, al referirse al uso de los espacios públicos en Internet en un conversatorio organizado alrededor del tema por el Clubhouse 25 de Julio. El Clubhouse es un proyecto internacional a través del cual adolescentes de en riesgo social tienen acceso a al aprendizaje del uso de las nuevas tecnologías de información y comunicación. El proyecto es desarrollado en Costa Rica por Fundación Paniamor, y desde su arranque en el año 2005, más de 300 jóvenes como María Fernanda se han acercado al uso de herramientas tecnológicas y a la comunicación con el vasto mundo que se gesta con la red.

Las comunidades virtuales construidas a partir de los clientes de mensajería y las redes sociales en línea permiten la interacción de millones de personas que, desde cualquier parte del globo, pueden expresarse, compartir y conocer al resto el mundo. Las posibilidades parecen ser ilimitadas y la continua y acelerada profundización de las redes sociales establecidas por medio de la red abren un nuevo horizonte de crecimiento cultural y tecnológico. No obstante, el escaso control sobre estos espacios públicos y el componente de anonimato que las caracteriza implican riesgos de los cuales es preciso prevenir a los grupos más vulnerables, como las y los niños y adolescentes.

La sobreprotección y las actitudes prohibitivas están lejos de ser la respuesta. El desafío de cerrar la brecha digital conlleva la multiplicación de los medios de acceso a la red y, por lo tanto, será cada vez más dificil verificar los mensajes que la juventud recibe por medio de las nuevas tecnologías de información.

En este contexto, la construcción de una red mundial de información cada vez más segura está atravesada por el trabajo directo con ellas y ellos, en un proceso de formación de actitudes en el que la conciencia de los jóvenes sobre su propia seguridad y responsabilidad sea el principal factor protector que los acompañe.

En este contexto seguir el consejo de María Fernanda parece ser la mejor herramienta para garantizar la seguridad de los jóvenes en su acceso al Internet. Jóvenes astutos, capaces de determinar cuáles son los contenidos y las interacciones más convenientes para su desarrollo, son los que harán de la red global de información un lugar libre de riesgos y exclusiones.

La Fundación Paniamor trabaja a través de sus diversos proyectos en garantía del cumplimiento de los derechos de la niñez y la adolescencia y el fortalecimiento de las actitudes de seguridad y responsabilidad en el uso de los medios de información es uno de sus intereses primordiales en la actualidad. Para tratar este tema desde el Internet ha creado el sitio “Protegiendoles”, dedicado al tema de la explotación sexual comercial, y tiene en desarrollo a través del Proyecto Clubhouse 25 de Julio el sitio “Navega Segur@”, para ofrecer a la juventud información y recomendaciones sobre el uso de la red. Este sitio fue presentado el sábado anterior como parte de un conversatorio en el que las y los jóvenes integrantes del Clubhouse compatieron sus opiniones sobre los riesgos y las ventajas del uso del Internet. Visitar Galería

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Niños y niñas encuentran en la Red enormes posibilidades de acceder a información útil en materia educativa, contenidos con los que ocupar su ocio, canales de comunicación con sus iguales. Pero también contenidos y prácticas inadecuados que abarcan una amplia panoplia de elementos, desde el acceso a contenidos pornográficos y de adultos a la captura abusiva de datos personales y familiares, prácticas de marketing igualmente abusivas, los adultos intrusos en los foros y chats infantiles, etc.

Como ejemplifica el spot de este año, las ventajas y los inconvenientes en Internet están tanto en el envío de contenidos como en la recepción de los mismos. Sólo conseguiremos una navegación segura para los menores si somos capaces de transmitirles unas reglas básicas para la singladura.

Alejandro Perales

Coordinador del Observatorio de Contenidos Televisivos y Audiovisuales (OCTA)

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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.

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IS INTERNET A POSITIVE OR A NEGATIVE ELEMENT IN TODAY'S WORLD?

Internet is becoming almost a necessity in today's world and so there is no doubt on its positive aspects. Most things usually have their negative elements but we usually try to minimise these to get the very best out them. In this aspect, we should try and minimise negative elements in this technology to be able to use it effectively and in the safest way possible(that means without compromising ANYONE's rights). Furthermore, the first responsibilty is upon ourselves to conduct ourselves in a way that does not infringe on other people's rights. If we do this then, we protect others as well as ourselves from cyberspace injustices.

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Prezentacja nowego pakietu kursów internetowych o bezpieczeństwie w Sieci
była jedną z atrakcji tegorocznego Dnia Bezpiecznego Internetu w Polsce.

Gry, puzzle, łamigłówki i inne ćwiczenia pozwolą dzieciom i młodzieży nauczyć się, jak
bezpiecznie korzystać z Internetu. Tematy, których dotyczy kurs to:
udostępnianie danych osobowych, znajomi w Sieci, niebezpieczne treści, niegrzeczni w Sieci oraz uzależnienie od Internetu. Zawartość będzie zaadaptowana dla każdej z trzech grup wiekowych - dwóch dla szkoły podstawowej i jednej dla gimnazjum. Na początek uruchomione zostało szkolenie dla najmłodszych - dzieci w wieku 7-10 lat.

Wirtualnymi przewodnikami w kursie są Sieciaki - dzieci, które już doskonale radzą sobie w internetowej rzeczywistości, a internautom są już dobrze znane dzięki serwisowi sieciaki.pl. Po pomyślnym przejściu kursu możliwe jest otrzymanie certyfikatu potwierdzającego nabyte umiejętności, nauczyciele mogą także poznać statystyki. Planowane są także e-learningowe szkolenia dla nauczycieli i rodziców.

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Telefónica tiene como prioridad fomentar el uso seguro y responsable de las nuevas tecnologías, por eso trabaja porque en todos y cada uno de los países en los que opera los menores puedan acceder al móvil e Internet con seguridad.

En este sentido, entre otras acciones que el Grupo lleva a cabo en esta fecha, TELEFONICA junto con la Confederación Española de Centros de Enseñanza (CECE), lanza la edición 2008 del concurso Yourvid.eu.

Puedes entrar en www.telefonica.es/planeta para conocer más sobre el concurso, ver los vídeos ganadores de la edición 2007, y participar en el blog en el que se podrá hablar del uso responsable de Internet y del móvil.

A través de su filial Telefónica O2 europa, patrocina el concurso del INSAFE que gira entorno a la influencia de las nuevas tecnologías en nuestras vidas. Además, O2 lanza sus webs de protección al menor en todos los países en los que opera.

Asimismo, el Grupo Telefónica es uno de los miembros fundadores de la alianza promovida por el GSMA para luchar contra el tráfico de pornografía infantil en la red.

Adicionalmente, en España desde hace varios años se están desarrollando terminales móviles específicos para niños y se está fomentando el uso de controles parentales de contenidos en Internet tanto en línea fija (canguro net) como móvil (canguro móvil).

Se han establecido alianzas estratégicas con Ongs, organismos relevantes como el Defensor del Menor o Red.es, la Comisión Europea (proyecto SAFENET) y otras asociaciones para impulsar la seguridad en el uso de las TICs por parte de los menores.

Desde junio de 2007 junto con la Universidad de Navarra y Educared, se está llevando a cabo en Latino América encuestas en los colegios de varios países para conocer cómo las nuevas tecnologías están influyendo y cambiando sus vidas.

A través de Educared, Fundación Telefónica proporciona educación a más de 25 millones de personas.

Para más información y consejos sobre el uso responsable de las TICs por los menores, consulta. www.telefonica.es/consejosparapadres.

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New research on teens' ICT use stresses the importance of internet and other technologies in their personal lifes. Even though teens can no longer imagine a life without internet, they are sometimes confronted with certain risks as well when they are surfing or chatting.
A carefully balanced image of the opportunities and risks of ICT for teens is what results from the research project TIRO, "Teens & ICT: Risks & Opportunities", that was presented in Brussels on the occasion of Safer Internet Day.
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The need for teenagers to have their proper cultural space in their parents' home, and more specifically in their proper bedroom, is not new. In the most recent years, however, since the introduction of GSM, computer and the internet, the bedroom has become a connected room from which girls and boys can continue their social interactions with peers as well as their participation in the youth culture.
Contrary to the uniform and homogeneous image that certain visions on adolescents and the internet put forward, the research shows a rather fragmented youth, presenting very contrasting profiles with regard to their practices as well as to the sense given to these practices in their society life.
In the survey with teens and parents not just the opportunities offered by ICT were analyzed, but also the risks young internet users can be confronted with.

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Denmark: Danish children engage in a dialogue on issues related to
Safe Internet Day 2007 and 2008

As many of you probably remember, the theme of Safe Internet Day 2007 was “The Power of the Image”. It sparked a lively debate in our forum at www.cyberhus.dk, and the debate continues. Knowing that it is becoming increasingly easy for children and teens to snap a personal photo and upload it on the net, we decided to investigate this issue further by asking the children to relate their experiences with using photos on the internet. Moreover, we wanted to find out if young people today believe that being online constantly via SMS, MSN and e-mail is a prerequisite for social success. Thus, we posted the following questions for discussion on our socio-pedagogical meeting place for children and teens, cyberhus.dk:

Question nr. 1: Images

Imagine you’re about to upload a photo of yourself, say, on Messenger or on a homepage.
What kind of photo would you choose to upload and why? Is there a specific type of photo that you would never even consider uploading?

Here are a few of the numerous statements we got from the kids in response to Question 1:

“Tolly and Peter” replied:
I would probably upload my photo so that people can see what I look like and perhaps then they would like to get in touch with me.
I wouldn’t upload a photo of someone else because I don’t want to deceive people I don’t know.

“jammo” replied:
We are two girls who don’t want to upload our pictures because people shouldn’t be able to see us. We wouldn’t mind uploading photos of our pets.

“Kathrine and Rikke” replied:
No…it’s not okay to upload photos of other people on the net, and the same thing goes for nude photos but it’s ok to upload ones own photos on MSN….

“Regina and Sarah” replied:
It’s not okay to upload a photo of someone else without permission, it would be totally unacceptable.

Summary:
The majority agree that uploading a personal photo is okay as long as it is a “normal” portrait photo showing only the face. However, a surprisingly high number think that it’s best to avoid uploading a photo on the internet where everybody can see it. Instead, most of the recipients prefer to upload images on MSN where only their friends and family will have access. Finally, most of the kids are very aware of one of the basic principles of netiquette: Uploading images of other people without their permission is morally wrong and should be avoided.

Question nr. 2: Always online?

Is it important to be online constantly? Do you feel like an outsider or left out when you are not online?

Here is a selection of some of the responses pertaining to Question 2:

“Anonymous” replied:
No, because if one is online constantly, one wouldn’t have any spare time, and I don’t feel left out.

“Quynh & Anna” replied:
It’s not important to be online all the time. No, I don’t feel lonely!!!

“Muzze and Musser” replied:
We prefer spending time with our friends over writing an sms, chatting and MSN!

“nanna and johanne” replied:
We don’t feel left out when we’re not online and we don’t think one has to be online all the time, it’s a waste of money and electricity!!!

Summary
None of the children who participated in the debate see any point in being online day and night. The children find it more worthwhile to talk, play and have fun with their friends and schoolmates IRL than to chat with people in cyberspace. What is perhaps even more important is the fact that none of the children feel left out in the cold when they are not online. In fact, they are very sceptical to the idea that constant accessibility is necessary in order to avoid isolation.

* To see all the children’s responses in the discussion forum (in Danish), go to
www.cyberhus.dk/site/14868.htm and www.cyberhus.dk/site/14930.htm. Here you can also read what the children wrote in reply to other issues pertaining to the internet.

* Foreign visitors who wish to learn more about Cyberhus in English can go to www.cyberhus.dk/english

* Finally, for more resources check out Cyberhus’ virtual IT Workshop at www.cyberhus.dk/site/6541.htm

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Un año más se celebra el "Día Europeo por una Internet más Segura" que versa sobre la correcta utilización de la telefonía móvil.
Desde red.es, entidad pública dependiente del Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio a través de nuestro programa para la infancia y las TIC, Chavales, www.chaval.es, hemos desarrollado un juego para que los menores asimilen de forma divertida una serie de consejos sobre cómo hacer un uso correcto y responsable del teléfono móvil. Las recomendaciones se dividen en los siguientes bloques: movilidad, ocio, gasto, acceso y seguridad.
Acepta el reto!! y juega con nosotros en la web de los Chavales.
Red.es.

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Czech Safer Internet combined node (www.saferinternet.cz)celebrated the Safer Internet Day in Prague opening two competitions: The first one: Mobilstory (www.mobilstory.cz), has been started by Czech Minister of Interior Dr. Langer at the press conference organised by occasion of the SID 2008.

Participants of the Mobilstory (youngster fo age up to 16) will create short video spots or serie of photo pictures reflecting their percpetion of the difference between real and virtual world. Competition runs under ausprices of Mr. Langer being supported by Microsoft, Telefonica O2 and Vodafone.

The next WebQuest competition was launched today under auspices of Mgr. Ondrej Liska, Czech Minister of Eduvcation, Youth and Sports. Teachers of elementary and secondary schools shall create modern teaching material in using modern yet approved lesson format (http://webquest.org/index.php)

For more information visit www.saferinternetday.cz

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Today you can use many mobile phones to access the internet for information or communication such as Messenger, Skype or email – which means that we – not least all the kids who have their mobiles always at hand or ear – can be in touch and updated everywhere and always, across small or global distances. The question is how kids manage that – in addition to the usual stream of incoming and outgoing information on their mobile and stationary computer platforms? What does it mean to be always reachable and in touch no matter if you are in your usual neighbourhood or abroad? Do we – an especially the kids – get used to it and don’t think much about it? Is it stressful to be always on – especially if they for some reason cannot “be on” for some time? Which norms and behaviors do they develop to manage?

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Los niños, niñas y adolescentes son ciudadanos con plenos derechos garantizados por la Convención sobre los Derechos del Niño, aprobada por la Asamblea de Naciones Unidas en el año 1989 y ratificada en 1990 por España. En la misma se insta a los Estados a reconocer la importancia que desempeñan los medios de comunicación y la información a disposición de los menores de edad, con el propósito de que participen ampliamente en la sociedad de su tiempo y, por tanto, lo podemos hacer extensivo a las nuevas tecnologías.

El acceso de los niños y niñas a Internet supone una gran oportunidad para la adquisición de nuevos conocimientos y aprendizajes de instrumentos de interacción con otros, que les proporcione un mejor desarrollo de sus capacidades.

En esta búsqueda de información , el niño puede desarrollar malos usos o abusos de Internet que generen algún perjuicio y, por tanto, hay que reconocer la existencia de riesgos amparados en el anonimato de las comunicaciones, en la facilidad de acceso sin filtro de edad, en la privacidad que permite el espacio de uso en los hogares, etc.

Desde el Ministerio de Trabajo y Asuntos Sociales y más concretamente, desde el Observatorio de Infancia, hace años que venimos trabajando con diferentes colectivos, como Universidades y Organizaciones del tercer sector, además de las Comunidades Autónomas, con el propósito de mejorar las condiciones objetivas para que el segmento infanto-juvenil tenga un acceso más seguro a Internet, en interés del menor y adecuado a sus necesidades e intereses.

En este sentido, para conmemorar el Día Internacional de la Internet Segura 2008, quisiéramos animar a todos los agentes que intervenimos en este tema a seguir en la tarea de impulsar acciones sobre el uso responsable de las TIC en relación con la infancia y la adolescencia, como las establecidas en el Plan Estratégico Nacional de Infancia y Adolescencia, aprobado por el Consejo de Ministros del Gobierno de España para el periodo 2006-2009.

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One of the things that is fascinating about children’s and adolescents’ uses of online media is that they can get in contact with other people and other places around the globe. That they can meet online with kids of the same age and talk or play or create something. But even if the internet makes it possible for children and adolescents in large parts of the world to get around the globe virtually, they are still very much locally rooted. It is still very important to children and adolescents to feel at home where they live and to mirror their own lives with those of others in other places. And despite the time young people spend in front of the screens (of all sizes) the large majority still find it most important to be with their friends. It may be watching a movie og playing a computer game or exchanging tunes via their mobiles – but it is very important to feel the nearness and trust among friends. Children and young people use online media to orientate themselves locally and to feel at home where they are.

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Im Rahmen des Europäischen Safer Internet Tages wird heute in Wien der 1. Österreichische Handyfilmpreis vergeben. Kinder und Jugendliche waren dazu aufgerufen, die technischen Möglichkeiten des Handys kreativ zu nutzen. Die hochkarätig besetzte Jury war von den Einreichungen begeistert. Nachzusehen sind alle eingereichten Handyfilme auf www.handyfilmpreis.at.

Ein Handy, mit dem man nur telefonieren kann, gibt es heute schon fast nicht mehr. Ob MP3-Player, E-Mail-Funktion oder Kamera – Handys bieten immer mehr. Vor allem Kinder und Jugendliche kommen sehr früh mit dem Handy und all den Möglichkeiten, die es bietet, in Berührung. Der sinnvolle Umgang will aber gelernt sein.

Handywissen.at initiierte 1. Österreichischen Handyfilmpreis

Einen entscheidenden Schritt zur sinnvollen Handynutzung setzte die österreichische Initiative Handywissen.at. Sie rief den 1. Österreichischen Handyfilmpreis ins Leben. Unter dem Motto „move it“ waren Kinder und Jugendliche aufgerufen, ihrer Kreativität mithilfe des Handys freien Lauf zu lassen. Im Rahmen des Europäischen Safer Internet Tages wurden die Sieger prämiert.

Organisiert wurde der 1. Österreichische Handyfilmpreis von Handywissen.at. Unterstützt wurde er von Jugendministerium, Europäischer Kommission, Saferinternet.at, mobilkom austria, Cube Hotels und Szene1.at. Die hochkarätige Jury bestand aus Herbert Rosenstingl vom Jugendministeriums, der ORF-Kinderprogrammchefin Helga Janisch-Pryce, der Regisseurin Maria Arlamovsky, Astrid Wagenhofer von mobilkom austria und Ronald Hechenberger von Handywissen.at

Zahlreiche Einreichungen potenzieller Nachwuchs-Filmemacher

Von den zahlreichen kreativen Einreichungen waren die Organisatoren und die Jury begeistert. Einreichen konnte man alle Filme, die mit einer Handykamera gedreht worden waren. Eine Nachbearbeitung am Computer war erlaubt.

„Beim Handyfilmpreis ging es nicht um das technisch perfekte Video, sondern um kreative Ideen zu einem Thema, das Jugendliche bewegt“, erklärt Jurymitglied Herbert Rosenstingl vom Jugendministerium. Und die Themen, mit denen sich die Jugendlichen befasst haben, sind durchaus vielfältig und kreativ. Die Bandbreite reicht von der tanzenden Katze, über perfekt gedrehte Comedyfilme bis hin zu Liebes- und Medienthemen.

Die große Auswahl machte die Arbeit der hochkarätig besetzten Jury nicht einfach. „Alle Filme zeigen, wie man mit einem Handy und guten Ideen tolle Filme fürs Taschenformat machen kann“, zeigt sich auf Astrid Wagenhofer von mobilkom austria begeistert. „Einige der Kandidaten haben definitiv das Potenzial, österreichische Nachwuchs-Filmemacher zu werden und sollten sich weiterhin mit dem Thema Filmemachen beschäftigen“, zeigt sich Regisseurin Maria Arlamovsky begeistert.

And the winner is....

So schwer es der Jury auch fiel, fällte sie schlussendlich doch eine Entscheidung. Diese wurde bei der offiziellen Präsentation im Rahmen des Europäischen Safer Internet Tages verkündet.

Auf dem dritten Platz landete der Film „Wireless“. Der Stummfilm zeigt mit einfachen aber eindrucksvollen Bildern das Risiko des Treffens von Online-Bekanntschaften. „Pimp my Kugelschreiber“ gewann den zweiten Platz. Dieser Film karikiert auf unverkrampfte und originelle Weise die Pimp-up Produktionen der Jugendsender. Den ersten Platz belegte der Film „Requiem Remade“, der die Jury durch den beeindruckenden Umgang mit dem Thema Drogenmissbrauch überzeugen konnte.

„Der Film – Romeo und Julia in der Neuzeit“ konnte bei den auf www.handyfilmpreis.at registrierten Mitgliedern punkten und erntete dafür den Publikumspreis. Damit wurde die sehr originelle Idee belohnt, sich an der Produktion eines Animationsfilms zu versuchen. Der Sonderpreis „Kinder“ für eine gute Idee und deren lustige Umsetzung ging an den Film „Gutes Ende“.

DI Ronald Hechenberger, Koordinator von Handywissen.at und Geschäfstführer des ÖIAT: „Die Einreichungen des 1. Österreichische Handyfilmpreises haben alle unsere Erwartungen übertroffen. Bei diesem kreativen Potenzial würde ich mich nicht wundern, wenn wir in ein paar Jahren einige erfolgreiche österreichische Filmemacher mehr hätten.“

Handyfilme auf www.handyfilmpreis.at nachsehen

Alle die Lust haben können sich selbst von der Kreativität der Jugendlichen überzeugen und sich die eingereichten und prämierten Filme auf www.handyfilmpreis.at ansehen.

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Jeg så engang nogle sjove stoplys ved et fodgængerfeltet.  Jeg har glemt hvor det var, men det er også ligegyldigt. Der var en rød mand, som stod stille, en gul som ser sig for og en grøn, som gik. Sådan et stoplys kunne man måske godt tænke sig var placeret ude omkring på nettet. Så rødt helt klart viste, at det ikke er en god ide, at gå videre ad dette spor; gult - at man skal tænke sig godt om og se både til højre og venstre og grønt lys, som signalerede at her var der klar bane. Hvorfor ikke "mærke" nogle af de hjemmesider, som er for børn på denne måde.... jeg spørger bare.
 
Ning de Coninck-Smith
Børneforsker m.m., Danmarks pædagogiske univesitetsskole.

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Ingen andre tidligere generationer har haft så mange muligheder for at kommunikere så hurtigt, så meget og så spændende.
 
I gør det. Skaffer viden til opgaver på nettet (Wikipedia). Spiller spil, er online med venner, skriver sms'er, mødes nemt på uventede måder.
 
I har bare alle mulige it-kompetencer lige ved hånden! I er superbrugere - og meget meget bedre end sådan nogle som mig (48 år) eller dem, der måtte være endnu ældre.
 
I kan hele spiluniverser, hvor jeg aldrig ville score et eneste point.
 
I bruger mere tid ved skærme og mobil, end jeg gør (og jeg er endda ganske ferm).
 
I kan det hele - I ved det bare ikke altid. Og I bruger det ikke!
 
Få af jer vælger i dag en egentlig fremtid i noget, der har med it at gøre. Det er ikke bare jer. Det er unge i hele den vestlige verden.
 
Det er ikke farerne eller sikkerheden på nettet, der holder jer borte. I får bare ingen (positive) billeder inde i hovedet ved at tænke på it. Læge. sygeplejerske, jurist, pilot, brandmand. Det ved I hvad er. I får billeder inde i hovedet.
 
It-kvinde eller it-mand. I tror, det er monotont, gentagent arbejde. På kontor = KEDELIGT. Hele livet.
 
It som erhverv (og ikke kun interesse) er faktisk ikke så kedeligt. Det er også fest og farver, rejser og udfordringer. Spændende mennesker at møde. En verden, der skal reddes - gennem intelligent energi, kloge investeringer, digitale patientjournaler, mere sikre transportsystemer osv.
 
Så - tænk jer om: nogle af jer kan direkte anvende al jeres dygtighed og interesse for it til også at få et spændende liv.
 
Kig på www.future-people.dk for at snuse til mulighederne.

Henrik Egede
The IT Industry Association

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Las nuevas tecnologías, especialmente Internet y la telefonía móvil, se han convertido en una herramienta indiscutible de trabajo, aprendizaje y ocio para nuestros menores; pero no están exentas de riesgos que hay que saber controlar: determinados foros y chats, páginas con mensajes inadecuados, pornografía infantil…; los nuevos teléfonos móviles permiten también descargar estos contenidos y el control que podemos hacer sobre su uso es aún muy limitado. Es fundamental, pues, educar a nuestros hijos en una utilización responsable de las TIC, enseñándoles sus ventajas, advirtiéndoles de sus riesgos y colocando sistemas que impidan determinados accesos. Pero es definitivo que las empresas vinculadas a estas tecnologías mantengan su compromiso real por la defensa de los menores y el buen uso las mismas: clasificando contenidos, retirando páginas inadecuadas, bloqueando técnicamente determinados accesos…La correcta utilización de las TIC por los más pequeños es un objetivo con el que todos debemos comprometernos de manera seria y continua porque es la estabilidad de nuestros hijos lo que está en juego.

Arturo Canalda
Defensor del Menor

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Internet je prostor, ki na eni strani ponuja možnosti za razvoj demokratičnih procesov, po drugi pa ponuja nov prostora za poglabljanje neenakosti, kršenje človekovih pravic in nove oblike diskriminacije. Struktura interneta, prodornost in možnosti, ki jih nudi za ohranjanje anonimnosti so odprle neverjetne možnosti za tiste, ki želijo širiti sovražno propagando in pozivati k nestrpnosti. V prvi vrsti nam virtualni prostor za razliko od realnega omogoča, da komuniciramo s privzetimi ali prikritimi identitetami. Pri spletni komunikaciji gre tako za izražanje stališč v prikriti identitetni formi, ki vpliva na konstrukcijo občutka svobode med udeleženci. Večja svoboda, ki jo omogoča prikrita identiteta, pa omogoča tudi izražanje ekstremnejših stališč, ki jih sicer v vsakdanji medosebni komunikaciji zaradi uveljavljenih družbenih norm ne upamo izražati.

Prav tako pa je internet tudi zelo uporaben medij za lokacijo skupin s posebnimi interesi, ki jih je zaradi kršenja obstoječih družbenih norm v realnem okolju težko najti. Vedenje na spletu v kombinaciji z anonimnostjo namreč poveča identifikacijo s skupino in naredi posameznike bolj socialno odzivne. Socialni vpliv ima največji in najbolj močan učinek takrat, ko so posamezniki izolirani in ko je njihova identiteta dobro skrita pred ostalo skupino. Tako se socialni vplivi skupin kot so stereotipi, predsodki, diskriminatorna dejanja in komformizem lažje udejanjajo. S tem je internet zelo prikladno orodje za ekstremistične skupine, saj jim s celo paleto komunikacijskih možnosti in interaktivnostjo omogoča, da se usmerijo na točno določene ciljne skupine.

Za internet je tako značlna tudi skoraj brezmejna dostopnost do vseh vrst vsebin, tudi škodljivih, žaljivih in sovražnih, ki v tradicionalnih okoljih otrokom in mladostnikom sicer niso dostopne. Tako je moč na internetu zaslediti vrsto spletnih strani namenjenih otrokom in mladim, ki poleg zavajajočih informacij ponujajo tudi glasbo, risanke in računalniške igre (modifikacije znanih iger), ki se osredotočajo na sovražnost do drugih in drugačnih. Delovanje ekstremističnih skupin na internetu tako ni omejeno zgolj z elektronsko pošto, forumi ali klepetalnicami, temveč predstavlja polje za rekrutiranje in nabiranje finančnih sredstev, polje za širjenje rasistične propagande, v obliki glasbe, rasističnih videoigric in posebnih podstrani za otroke. Zaradi vsega zgoraj naštetega je internet še posebej prikladen za rekrutiranje otrok in mladih, saj ponuja odlično orodje za prepričevanje (pripoved zgodb, mitov in urbanih legend) in nadzor nad podobami, ki so v klasičnih medijih in v realnem vsakdanu prepovedane. Še posebej so pri rekrutiranju pomembne t. i. mehke sovražne strani, ki v imenu človekovih pravic in svobode izražanja širijo vrsto neresnic in za manjšinske skupine škodljivih dezinformacij. Takšna spletna propaganda pa je nevarna tudi zaradi tega, ker spodkopava demokracijo in temelje demokratične družbe, ki pomenijo osnovo za spoštovanje človekovih pravic nasploh. Kakor je svoboda govora pomembna za uspešno demokracijo, je strpnost nujna za njeno preživetje.

Barbara Samaluk, strokovna sodelavka na Oddelku za področje diskriminacije, Varuh človekovih pravic RS

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Is it ‘safe and sound’ because they sit physically in their own home? Maybe maybe not. Children play games, they communicate in social networks and they chat. They behave with great skills in virtual communities. All very well. But sometimes, just sometimes those social skills are used in inappropriate ways.

Virtual bullying is one way. Bullying in virtual space is often much more powerful than in physical space. Not having eye contact with the person being bullied often makes the bully far more aggressive. Social networking can be in spaces where adults only belong and as such be very unhealthy for children. Etc. etc.

But at the bottom line parents have just as big a responsibility for their children’s life in virtual space as in real space. Parents need to take on this responsibility. They need to acknowledge themselves with the virtual spaces. Talk to their children about this – which can be done without prying; just as in the real world.

To children born in the digital world there is no such thing as a virtual space and a real space – it is all just a space. And parents and teachers need to acknowledge this.

In Microsoft we take child safety very seriously. Both from a product perspective as well as in our corporate social affair’s work. Multiple employees across Europe have partnered with schools, governments and NGOs in order to inform students, teachers and parents about the wonders and dangers of the internet.

Kirsten Panton
Partners in Learning
Regional Leader - Western Europe
Microsoft

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The internet is a fantastic medium where children and young people can play games, watch videos, search information and many other great things. But importantly the internet is also a social space where cultural norms and values are negotiated and defined and image and text in the split of a second becomes a display of who you are. A silly photo uploaded in a silly moment, an angry message sent too quickly to a friend, a personal information given to the wrong person. These are all individual acts with an influence on who we are online AND offline. The Danish Media Council wants to make children and young people aware of the fact that: Life online is what YOU make of IT. On Safer Internet Day 2008, the Media Council launches a cascade of events and initiatives on libraries, schools, social networking sites for children etc. with the aim of creating mindful young internet users.

On Safer Internet Day 2008 child reporters from the Danish social networking place for children and young people NetStationen covers the Media Council’s offline Safer Internet Day event. See the online tv-coverage here between 12.00-15.00 on the 12th fo February 2008 (Greenwich+1):

About us:
As Awareness Node under the EU Safer Internet Plus Programme from 1st of September 2006 to 31st of August 2008, The Media Council works together with national and international partners from all over the world via the European network Insafe. The aim is to create awareness and inform about children’s use of the internet and new technologies as well as to provide parents and educators with knowledge and tools for raising children in the network society. Every year, the Media Council celebrates Safer Internet Day with a wave of events and initiatives online and offline taking up a stand for a safer internet for children and young people.

Website: www.medieraadet.dk

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Over det sidste årti er børn og unges kulturelle verden blevet udvidet med nye digitale muligheder. Det kulturelle liv foregår ikke kun offline i biografen, på biblioteket eller foran fjernsynet. Børn og unge ser også film og tv på internettet og mobilen, og de lytter til musik online og spiller spil online. I det hele taget foregår en stor del af børn og unges hverdagsliv på internettet og med mobilen. De har taget de nye medier og deres muligheder til sig lige med det samme, mens vi voksne har haft brug for lidt længere tid til at vænne os til den nye online verden.

For bare to år siden var ”webloggen” en helt ny trend, som de færreste danskere havde hørt om. Chatportalerne var noget, som de fleste voksne opfattede som børnenes helt eget ubegribelige univers. Men i dag, hvor jeg skriver mit indlæg til Sikker Internet Dag Bloggen 2008, er det at ”blogge” og ”netværke online” blevet en naturlig del af danskernes begrebsverden. De fleste danskere har læst en blog, mange har prøvet at blogge selv. Selv har jeg blogget en hel del de sidste par år. Og mange voksne har tilmed prøvet at ”netværke” på internettet via online profiler og chatportaler – helt ligesom børnene. Nu kan forældre og lærere altså pludseligt se, hvorfor børn og unge er så vilde med internettet og mobilens muligheder.

Men at leve livet online og digitalt er samtidig et stort personligt ansvar. For børn og unge kræver det f.eks. en række etiske kompetencer, når de lægger ting og sager om sig selv og andre på nettet. Når hele verden er dit publikum, kan det nemlig nemt gå galt, hvis man ikke tænker sig rigtigt godt om. Og har du først trykket ”publish”, så er du ”på” her og nu og i lang tid frem over. Derfor er dette års tema for Sikker Internet Dag bloggen også utroligt vigtigt: Livet online er, hvad vi selv gør det til.

Så tænk jer godt om, når I lægger billeder, film og tekster om jer selv og andre på nettet.

Jeg er som kulturminister glad for, at Medierådet for Børn og Unge igen i år har taget initiativ til at fejre den internationale ”Sikker Internet Dag” med fokus på den etiske og sikre brug af internettet og mobilen blandt børn og unge. For internettet er et mægtigt instrument, der kræver et stort personligt ansvar fra de unge brugere.

Brian Mikkelsen
Kulturminister

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Stopchildporno.be: Child Focus in de strijd tegen kinderpornografie op het net.

Child Focus, de stichting voor vermiste en seksueel uitgebuite kinderen, lanceerde op 11 december 2007 een nieuwe site tegen kindermisbruik op internet. Deze website, die de opvolger is van www.childfocus-net-alert.be, informeert de internetgebruikers over beelden van seksueel misbruik van kinderen (kinderpornografie), en maakt het hen mogelijk om deze illegale beelden die ze vinden op internet te melden .

Stopchildporno.be is het Belgisch burgerlijk meldpunt om seksueel misbruik van kinderen op het net te melden. Elk kinderpornografisch beeld is het bewijs van het seksueel misbruik van een kind. Interpol beschikt wereldwijd over een database met 520.000 individuele kinderen die slachtoffer van dit misbruik waren, slechts van 600 onder hen is de identiteit gekend. Om de strijd tegen dit soort seksueel misbruik effectief aan te gaan, is informatie en sensibilisatie van het grote publiek cruciaal.

Op de nieuwe site werd het meldingsformulier logischer en gebruiksvriendelijker gemaakt. Gebruikers kunnen desgewenst anoniem een melding doen en worden indien ze dat wensen op de hoogte gehouden van het gevolg dat eraan gegeven wordt. Tevens werd de informatie-uitwisseling tussen Child Focus (stopchildporno.be), de Federal Computer Crime Unit (ecops.be) en de Dienst Mensenhandel gestroomlijnd. Stopchildporno.be is ook via buttons op populaire sites, zoals skynet.be en msn.be, rechtstreeks bereikbaar zijn.

Child Focus, dat 10 jaar geleden werd opgericht, opende inmiddels 12.000 dossiers rond seksueel misbruik van kinderen op het net.

Stopchildporno.be wordt financieel gesteund door de Europese Unie via het Safer Internet Plus programma ( ec.europa.eu/saferinternet ). Tevens werkt Child Focus samen met het OIVO (het Onderzoeks- en Informatiecentrum van de Verbruikersorganisaties) in het platform www.saferinternet.be dat de veiligheid van onze kinderen en jongeren online wil verhogen.

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Stopchildporno.be : Child Focus dans la lutte contre la pornographie enfantine sur Internet

Le 11 décembre 2007, Child Focus, la Fondation pour Enfants Disparus et Sexuellement Exploités, a lancé un nouveau site contre les abus d’enfants sur Internet. Ce site, qui est le successeur de www.childfocus-net-alert.be, fournit aux internautes des informations utiles s’ils sont confrontés à des images d’abus sexuels commis sur des enfants (pornographie enfantine) et leur permet de signaler les images illégales découvertes sur le web.

Stopchildporno.be est le point de contact civil belge auquel il faut s’adresser pour dénoncer des abus sexuels d’enfants sur le Net. Toute image à caractère pédopornographique prouve qu’un enfant a été victime d’un abus sexuel. Interpol dispose d’une base de données mondiale de 520.000 enfants ayant subi ce genre d’abus. Seuls 600 d’entre eux ont pu être identifiés. L’information et la sensibilisation du grand public est donc capitale pour combattre efficacement ce type d’abus sexuels.

Le nouveau site propose un formulaire de signalement plus logique et plus simple à utiliser. S’ils le souhaitent, les utilisateurs peuvent conserver l’anonymat et être informés de la suite donnée au signalement. L’échange d’informations entre Child Focus (stopchildporno.be), la Federal Computer Crime Unit (ecops.be) et le service Traite des êtres humains a également été rationalisé. Stopchildporno.be est en outre directement accessible via des boutons placés sur des sites populaires comme skynet.be et msn.be.

Fondé il y a 10 ans, Child Focus a entre-temps ouvert 12.000 dossiers relatifs à des abus sexuels d’enfants sur Internet.

Stopchildporno.be bénéficie du soutien financier de l’Union européenne, dans le cadre du programme Safer Internet Plus (ec.europa.eu/saferinternet). Child Focus collabore en outre avec le CRIOC (Centre de recherche et d’information des organisations de consommateurs), notamment pour le site www.saferinternet.be, pour augmenter la sécurité online de nos enfants.

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Stopchildporno.be: Child Focus fights against child pornography on the Internet.

In December 2007, Child Focus, the Foundation for missing and sexually exploited children, launched a new website against the sexual abuse of children on the Internet. This site, which is the successor of www.childfocus-net-alert.be, informs the Internet users about images of the sexual abuse of children (child pornography) en makes it possible to report any of these illegal images on the Internet.

Stopchildporno.be is the Belgian and civil hotline founded to report material depicting child sexual abuse found on Internet. Every child pornographic image is proof of such abuse. Interpol has a worldwide database containing images of 520.000 different children who are victims of sexual abuse. Only 600 of them have a known identity. If we want to fight this abuse effectively, information and sensibilisation of the main public are crucial.
On the new website, the report form is adapted to be more logical and user-friendly. It is possible to make an anonymous report or you can choose to be informed about the consequences of your report. The exchange of information between Child Focus (stopchildporno.be), the Federal Computer Crime Unit (ecops.be) and the services against human trafficking within the federal police has been approved. The site is also accessible via buttons on popular websites as skynet.be and msn.be.

Child Focus, that was founded 10 years ago, already has opened 12.000 dossiers on child sexual abuse on the Internet.

Stopchildporno.be was established within the "Safer Internet Plus Program" initiated by the European Commission. Child Focus is also coordinating the project www.saferinternet.be, in a partnership with OIVO/CRIOC, in order to improve the online safety of our children and youngsters.

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Rafael van Crimpen
Program director for Kindertelefoon Nederland

Last year on Safer Internet Day the Dutch Children’s helpline presented the outcome of a research concerning the effectiveness of chat as an online counselling channel. For years we’ve had confidential phone calls with kids and teenagers about their problems. Sexuality has long been the number one topic of our target group. But since we introduced chat as a second medium we saw two things happen:
First of all children with emotional problems preferred chat in stead of phone calls. The seriousness of their problems is severe. One out of three has a high SDQ rate which means that they are at risk of emotional problems. On the phone this is one out of five.
Second: when asked, kids and teenagers examined / rated chat-conversations with a higher degree than conversations by phone. We asked them why they preferred chat and they answered as follow:
• They don’t hear me crying
• I feel less ashamed
• No one can hear me
• Talking in private is quite scary, I mean it’s (chat) not coming out of my mouth
• There is more time to think about what you would like to say

We as workers from the Dutch Children’s helpline know the moment that they cry or feel ashamed or feel fear, even though we can’t hear or see them. But the fact that they are not aware of that, strengthens the statement in the above mentioned title: life online is what you make of it. You pretend no one can hear you crying, so you are not crying: that’s what you make of it and that is the good thing about life online: users create their own reality. Meanwhile in our case they receive, the help they need.

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Sicherheit im Internet wird für alle Bevölkerungsgruppen immer wichtiger. Internetshopping und Social Networking Plattformen boomen und sprechen sowohl Erwachsene als auch Kinder und Jugendliche an. Aber das Informationsdefizit der Österreicher ist immer noch groß und oft können Eltern mit dem Internet-Wissen ihrer Kinder nicht mithalten. „Wir haben im vergangenen Jahr sehr viele Anfragen von Eltern bekommen, wie sie ihre Kinder vor Gewalt verherrlichenden oder pornografischen Inhalten schützen können“, erklärt Ronald Hechenberger von der Initiative Saferinternet.at. Daher wurde der Elternratgeber „Schutz vor Schmutz – im Internet und am Handy“ erstellt. Der Ratgeber soll als Unterstützung für Eltern dienen, richtig mit problematischen Inhalten im Internet sowie am Handy umzugehen und bietet jede Menge praktische Tipps für die Medienerziehung. Er ist als Download unter www.saferinternet.at/downloads erhältlich.

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The "Luxembourg and Greater Region European Capital of Culture" - year is over, but young people might keep a souvenir of a photography experience based on the "Family of Man" project realised by the American photographer of Luxembourg origins, Edward Steichen, in the 1950s. Steichen thought that in every country, people have certain things in common and that they all share the wish for freedom, the search for happiness, the hope for peace.

We wondered what were young people's deams and wishes, today, some 50 years later. But instead of questioning once more the older generations or photographers, we invited them to take pictures of their life and share them with other young people on the modern way to transmit contents: the Internet.

www.foma.lu

Today hundreds of pictures sent in by young people from all over the world are still visible on a homepage www.foma.lu. "Family of Man 2007" is a gallery of virtual photos of images contributed by young people aged 15 to 26 years. The website mirrors the life and concerns of youth all over the world. The contributions cover 23 subjects from love, joy and family to discrimination, unemployment, youth culture, leisure activities, work etc.

The very best pictures were printed and are still shown in every school that expresses the desire to organise an exhibition.

This project was open to everyone. Thus the Internet became the vehicle for a high-level communication and reflection on young people's life. The pedagogical background and educational follow-up made it a project going much fearther than a simple online foto project. This is what makes the difference compared to Edward Steichen’s “Family of Man” that was not specifically "talking" to the young one's.

The "foma2007" project, although planned and designed to have a worldwide character, still leaves the option to every single person to put together an own personal “Family of Man”, organise an own exhibition or create a tool to be used in school, as long as the terms of the creative common license are respected. Steichen's work is steady, not to be put into pieces and recomposed. For the "Family of Man 2007" makers the Internet is not only a nice communication tool, but a mean to proove that young people are able to think about their life, to take a photography and to show the world that they are able to use the web in a responsible way.

Francine Cocard, Medienpädagogin

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The CRIOC: information and research center for the consumer organisations in Belgium: <>www.crioc.be is a public utility foundation.

A <>study (lien sur newslettre insafe)made by the CRIOC about the consumption of money games, based on a survey held in 2006 among 2305 youth aged 10 to 17, shows that 2 out of every 5 young people have already played for money. The average age at which children begin to play for money is 11 years and 8 months!

Minors of age who want to gamble online can choose from a constantly growing offer. Especially the increasing popularity of poker among the youth makes us concerned. The internet presents more and more (illegal) gambling sites. Gambling via mobile phone is also increasing. This is an international phenomenon.
In any case the gambling business is more and more moving from the café and the casino to the internet and the people's living room. And a growing number of minors are involved. Moreover, the dependence of the game is increasingly becoming the first step toward other dependences. Conclusion of the study: many youths participate in money games that are forbidden by law, but are easily or without any problem accessible through phone or internet.

In all those games, protection of young's e-privacy is the other challenge !
The commercial aim of gaming websites is to collect market data. Children are asked to disclose personal information when they subscribe to a website and through all kinds of surveys: they have to fill in their name, age, gender, address, mobile phone number, mail address, preferences for consumption goods (for themselves, their friends and their parents), comments on the products and about the website, … Cookies and other technical tricks also help advertisers to collect data. Contests and games are used because they are a simple and efficient means to gather sensitive private information. E.g.: data are given in exchange for participation in a game or while playing the game. So, talk to children about advergames and the commercial purpose of many websites ! Myspace, Facebook and other social network sites face...the same problems :because these services are offered for free, the users must accept publicity on every page : privacy protection on the edge ? Education is the best way to help children making life online what they really want , and resist commercial trap : this is the position of the CRIOC !What's the position of your association/country/friends...about this ?
Post your comment, and the CRIOC will animate the debate !

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On the occasion of Safer Internet Day (SID), UPC Hungary, Inforum, MTE and MATISZ organizations provide the following actions to help safer Internet usage for the children in Hungary:
- UPC Hungary and the Forum of the Hungarian IT Organizations for Information Society (Inforum) offer family programmes to tame the web;
- The Hungarian Content Providers Association (MTE) presents the Bigyoo.hu website for edutaining children on web safety;
- The Hungarian Association of Content Industry (MATISZ) operates a hotline service in Hungary to tackle illegal and harmful online content.
Aim of this action to raise the press, parents, teachers and children attention on how to protect themselves from harmful webcontent and how to find useful online content.

Világszerte 40 országban tartják 2008. február 12-én, kedden a „Biztonságosabb Internet Napját”, amely a biztonságosabb internet-használatot népszerűsíti a felhasználók, elsősorban a fiatalok körében.

A Magyarországi Tartalomszolgáltatók Egyesülete (MTE) a gyermekek számára készített felvilágosító honlappal, míg a Magyar Tartalomipari Szövetség az illegális és káros internetes tartalmak visszaszorítását célzó bejelentő szolgáltatással járul hozzá a biztonságosabb internet megteremtéséhez.

Az internet világában ma már a legkisebbek is otthonosabban mozognak, mint a szüleik, de nem mindig képesek felmérni, milyen veszélyeket hordoznak a kibővült online közösségi, kapcsolatépítési és kommunikációs lehetőségek. A szülők előtt pedig többségében rejtve marad, milyen zaklatások érik vagy érhetik a weben bolyongó csemetéjüket. Miközben az ma már mindenki számára nyilvánvaló, hogy a játszótéren való játék és az utcai átkelés is veszélyes lehet, ha nem vagyunk körültekintőek, az még nem tudatosult teljes körűen, hogy a virtuális világban a gyerekek bárkivel és bármivel összetalálkozhatnak, ha elővigyázatlanok. Márpedig az online környezetben magasabb a kockázat, mivel többnyire nem tudhatjuk, hogy ténylegesen kivel kerülünk kapcsolatba és mennyire megbízható vagy ellenőrizetlen információkkal találjuk szembe magunkat.

Friss hazai és nemzetközi felmérések az online kockázatokról
Egészen a közelmúltig semmilyen nemzetközi vagy hazai vizsgálat nem készült a kiskorúak internetezési szokásairól. A tavalyi év második felében azonban egy-egy európai uniós és magyarországi felmérés is kimutatta, hogy a gyerekek már 4-5 éves korukban megkezdik az ismerkedést az internettel és pár évvel később már rutinszerűen, naponta használják azt. Szinte magától értetődő számukra az internetezés, ugyanakkor, ha valamilyen problémával találkoznak közben, csak a legritkábban, a legvégső esetben avatják be a szüleiket.

A hazai NRC Piackutató intézet tavaly októberben végzett vizsgálata (VMRkids 2007) szerint már az óvodások is aktívan használják az internetet, és bár a legkisebbek nagy többsége szülői felügyelet mellett teszi ezt, a 6 éves és ennél fiatalabbak egyötödét a szülei nem korlátozzák a szörfölésben. A 11-14 éveseknek viszont már a 79 százaléka leggyakrabban egyedül ül a számítógép elé. Pedig a tíz éven felüliek 81 százaléka már ismerőskereső oldalakat látogat és 66%-uk rendszeresen chatel, 13%-ukat pedig már vásárlásra is ösztönözte valamilyen internetes reklám.

Az EU statisztikai hivatala által készített Eurobarométer jelentés a gyerekek internetezési szokásairól arra a következtetésre jutott, hogy bár a gyerekek nagy része tisztában van az online kockázatokkal, a legtöbben saját maguk vagy barátaik segítségével oldanák meg a problémáikat és csak nagyon súlyos esetben (és többnyire csak vírusfertőzés esetén) fordulnának a szüleikhez. Pedig jó néhányan léptek már kapcsolatba idegenekkel és éltek már át zaklatást is a világhálón. Az Eurobarométer magyarországi felmérése kimutatta, hogy a gyerekek számára a legkevésbé népszerű tevékenység az iskolai tananyaghoz kapcsolódó információkeresés, míg a leginkább a chatelést kedvelik. Többségük legfeljebb a vírusok miatt tartja kockázatosnak a világháló használatát, noha sokan találkoztak már pedofíliával és átveréssel. Tudatában vannak, hogy az interneten veszélyes kapcsolatokba keveredhetnek, de a virtuális világot nem tartják veszélyesebbnek, mint az utcát, és még a várható következmények ellenére is szívesen kalandokba bocsátkoznak. A szüleikkel mindezt nem vitatják meg, mert attól tartanak, hogy a felnőttek korlátoznák internet-használatukat. Ugyanakkor mindegyik válaszadó szívesen venné, ha többet megtudhatna az online veszélyekről és problémákról.

Családi ismeretterjesztő csomag a web megszelídítésére
A felmérések tanulságai alapján az Insafe, az EU internetbiztonságot propagáló szervezete, a UPC, a kontinens legnagyobb kábeles internetszolgáltatója támogatásával egy átfogó, játékos családi ismeretterjesztő csomagot állított össze, melyet a nemzetközi Biztonságosabb Internet Napján, február 12-én, Európa-szerte 11 nyelvre lefordítva – többek közt magyarul is – mindenki számára hozzáférhetővé tettek. A csomag közzétételét a Biztonságosabb Internet Napja hivatalos megnyitóján Viviane Reding, az EU távközlési főbiztosa is üdvözölte, elismerését fejezve ki a magáncég UPC és a közszférát képviselő Insafe példamutató együttműködése iránt. „Az internet hihetetlen mértékben megnövelte az emberek lehetőségeit, de ez nem járt kockázatok nélkül, különösképpen a fiatalabb felhasználók számára. A UPC ezért szolgáltatóként felelősséget kíván vállalni abban, hogy az internetet mindenki számára biztonságos hellyé tegye” – mondta a bejelentés kapcsán Joe Zuravle, a UPC Magyarország vezérigazgatója.

„A web megszelídítése” címet viselő e-biztonsági csomag 6 és 12 év közötti gyerekek és családjuk számára készült, abból a meggyőződésből, hogy az új technológiáknak nem elválasztaniuk, hanem egyesíteniük kellene a generációkat. A játékos ismeretterjesztő csomag révén a gyerekek a szüleik bevonásával, szórakoztató és érdekes módon sajátíthatják el az internet biztonságos és hatékony használatát. A csomag több mint 50 biztonsági tippet és feladatot kínál a gyerekek és a szülők okulására.

A csomag tartalma a következő:
• Két e-biztonsági füzet: családi szórakozás és szülői útmutató résszel;
• Aranyszabályok;
• Öntapadós címkék;
• 12 szituációs kártya, melyeket a gyerekeknek kell kivágni;
• Családi bizonyítvány.

A családi és szülői füzetek négy alapvető e-biztonsági témát járnak körbe: Biztonság, Kommunikáció, Szórakozás & Letöltés és Virtuális erőszakoskodás. A szülői füzet segítséget nyújt a felnőtteknek a gyerekekkel közösen átbeszélendő témákhoz: háttér-információkkal szolgál, magyarázatot fűz a feladatokhoz, illetve tartalmazza a gyakorlatok és a szituációs kártyák javasolt megoldásait. A családi füzetet érdemes a szülőknek a gyerekekkel együtt használni. A négy témát két kamasz fiatal, valamint szüleik és az informatikai zseni Hedvig történetein keresztül közelíti meg. Minden fejezet bevezető magyarázatokat, majd online gyakorlatokat, kvízeket, összefoglaló aranyszabályokat és hasznos linkeket is tartalmaz. A tanultakat szituációs kártyák segítségével idézhetjük fel és végül Családi bizonyítványt állíthatunk ki, emlékeztetőül a legfontosabb szabályokkal.

A több mint 15 ezer példányban elkészült magyar nyelvű családi e-biztonsági csomagot a UPC hozzáférhetővé teszi ügyfélszolgálati irodáiban, az Inforummal közösen eljuttatja iskolákba, továbbá kinyomtatható formában bárki letöltheti azt a UPC (www.upc.hu), a chello (www.chello.hu), az Inforum (www.inforum.org.hu), a Minimax (www.minimax.hu) és az Internethotline (www.internethotline.hu) weboldalairól.

Országos internetbiztonsági vetélkedő
Ezzel párhuzamosan a Minimax televízió szakértők bevonásával tájékoztató műsorokat készít és sugároz az e-biztonsági kérdésekről. Márciustól pedig, az európai e-Befogadás éve hazai rendezvénysorozatának keretében a UPC, az Inforum és a Minimax országos vetélkedőt szervez, melyen a kisiskolások több fordulóban mérhetik össze tudásukat, a családi e-biztonsági ismeretterjesztő csomag segítségével elsajátított ismereteik alapján. Az értékes jutalmakért folyó országos vetélkedőt hamarosan az iskolákon és a médiumokon keresztül hirdetik meg a szervezők.

Gyermekek számára ajánlható tartalmak
A Safer Internet for Children programban részt vevő szervezetek igyekeznek felhívni a figyelmet arra, hogy az eddiginél nagyobb hangsúlyt kell fektetni az értékes, megbízható és könnyen hozzáférhető magyar nyelvű gyermektartalmak fejlesztésére, elérhetővé tételére és ismertségének növelésére. A Magyarországi Tartalomszolgáltatók Egyesülete (MTE) emellett változatlanul fontosnak tartja az állami és piaci szereplők közös fellépését és a hatékony önszabályozást.
Az MTE és az egyszervolt.hu által tavaly útjára indított „Gyermekbarát internet” program előkészítése már 2006-ban elkezdődött, első akciója egy honlap-minősítési rendszer bevezetése volt. A minősítési rendszer létrehozásának célja az internet-használattal kapcsolatos félelmek, negatív attitűdök csökkentése, valamint a gyermekek számára fenntartások nélkül ajánlható digitális tartalmak fejlesztése, terjesztése és népszerűsítése. A minősítési rendszerről részletes információ található a www.bigyoo.hu honlapon.

Gyermekek számára tiltott és káros tartalmak bejelentése
A Magyar Tartalomipari Szövetség (MATISZ) a magyar nyelvű minőségi tartalmak fejlesztésében (eFestival) együttműködő társszervezetekkel közösen, az Európai Unió -valamint korábban az Informatikai és Hírközlési Minisztérium, jelenleg a Gazdasági és Közlekedési Minisztérium- támogatásával, 2005. február 1-tõl az Internet 'magyar szegletében' fellelhetõ tiltott/illegális illetve a gyermekek számára károsnak vélt digitális tartalmak visszaszorítására, ezzel kapcsolatban felvilágosítás nyújtására úgynevezett „forró drót” (hotline) szolgáltatást indított. A www.internethotline.hu webcímen elérhető honlap az illegális és ártalmas online tartalmak felderítése, kiszűrése mellett igyekszik felhívni a figyelmet az interneten megjelenő különösen hasznos, pozitív tartalmakra is, ezáltal elősegítve a hazai Internet zavartalan fejlődését. A hotline egyúttal része egy Európai Uniós, illetve nemzetközi hálózatnak, az Inhope-nak (www.inhope.org), melynek tagszervezetei saját országukon belül végzik ugyanezt a tevékenységet, és aktív tapasztalatcsere révén egymás munkáját is elősegítik.

Bővebben
- A biztonságis internet napjáról
- Az Insafe-ről
- Az Inforum-ról
- Az MTE-ről
- A UPC-ről
- A Minimaxról
- Az Eurobarométer magyarországi felmérése
- Az NRC Piackutató felmérése a 14 év alattiak internetezéséről

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The SIP-Bench study proved that good filtering software is a useful supplement to protect children between 6 and 16 against harmful content on the Internet. The SIP-Bench study, as part of the European Commission’s “Safer Internet Plus Programme”, consists of a three-year benchmarking study on 30 tools for parental control. The annual benchmark examines how effectively the actual filtering solutions can protect children who use their browser, e-mail, file transfer, peer-to-peer, chat and instant messaging without refusing the access to for example educational material. Furthermore, the study examines how the solutions can be installed and personalised, while respecting the European legislation on privacy and trade practices.

In 2006 and 2007, the tools have been tested by more than hundred parents and teachers in several European countries, and by Expert Testers. For all aspects of the tools such as ease of installation, running without conflicts, speed and language support, the tests identified at least one tool with an optimal score. The results of the 2006 and 2007 benchmark are available on http://www.sip-bench.eu

This year the tools will be compared again. Every person with children under supervision can participate in the study via http://www.sip-bench.eu i.e. parents, schools and other educators. Participants will receive one or more filtering tools for free which they can evaluate at home or at school. After the test procedure, they need to fill in the questionnaire(s). This evaluation is very important as all feedback will be used by the European Commission and the suppliers of filtering software. This way, participants will not only protect their own children better, but also help to improve the tools.

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Internet je zakladnica znanja, je največja svetovna knjižnica, poleg tega pa je tudi največje računalniško "igrišče" na svetu, kjer vse več mladih preživlja prosti čas in se zabava. Ravna ta "igrišča" (chat rooms, Facebook, MSN Messenger, Second Life, glasujzame.com...) mlade odmikajo od realnega sveta in jih zapirajo v virtualni svet.

Zavedati pa se moramo, da virtualni svet vse bolj po pojavu kriminala (cyber crime) in drugih zlorab žal spominja na realnega. Tudi na področju varstva osebnih podatkov ni nič drugače. Mladim (pa tudi starejšim) zato vedno pravim: "Osebni podatki so pomembna reč. Z njimi se ne gre igrati, ker ti lahko to precej zagreni življenje. Kar predstavljaj si, kaj bi se zgodilo, če bi nekdo ukradel geslo tvoje elektronske pošte in tvoji razredničarki v tvojem imenu poslal grdo
vsebino. Kdo ti bo verjel, da nisi bil ti? Nihče." K sreči so taki primeru redki, kot informacijska pooblaščenka z njimi le
ponazarjam, kakšni bi bili možni zapleti in kako bi bili lahko osebni podatki zlorabljeni. Previdnost pa nikoli ne bo odveč.

Zato svojih osebnih podatkov ne puščajte kjerkoli, ampak le tam, kjer veste, da bodo varni in da bodo služili tistemu namenu, za katerega ste te osebne podatke dali. Na internetu je pozornost potrebna še toliko bolj, ker človeka na drugi strani žice ne vidiš. Velika večina se jih izdaja za nekoga, kar v realnem svetu niso, predvsem pedofili so na interentu najbolj prijazni "buddy-ji", in v klepetalnici trdijo, da so stari toliko kot deklice ali dečki, s katerimi chetajo. Ko se dogovorijo za sestanek v živo, so pa tudi že pri nas 11 letne deklice z grozo ugotovile, da jih je pričakal 50 let star moški.

Previdno torej.

Lepo vas pozdravljam,

Nataša Pirc Musar, Informacijska pooblaščenka

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The worldwide data communications network poses a danger to children and young persons. Quite often, children are subjected to online sexual assaults made by paedophilic Internet users.

Both the political and economic worlds have responded: Stricter laws regarding protection for children and young persons that shield children above all from pornographic and extremist content and content that glorifies violence have already been implemented in a number of countries. Beyond this, businesses are working hard on the development of filter programs and age verification systems. However, in many countries – including European states – there is quite a bit of catching up to do.

Legal and technical measures, though, cannot replace the parental guidance that children and young persons truly need when surfing on the Internet. This guidance remains the most effective protection against damaging and illegal Internet content for the technology’s youngest users.

naiin in the fight for effective legal protection for children and young persons on the Internet

In many cases - if even in existence - the legal regulations regarding the protection of children and young persons on the Internet are not adequately adapted to the worldwide data communications network and are therefore doomed to failure from the very start. The question of which content could truly adversely affect children and young persons in their development is generally pushed into the background. Similarly, plans addressing these issues are seldom implemented.

naiin’s primary task is to prepare and deploy transnational standards in the global Internet economy. By combating illegal content in the worldwide data communications network, naiin also obviously takes a proactive stance against the spread of content that is harmful to young people.

Educating the public, especially parents, is another requirement in this area. This is because no number of clever measures designed to better the protection of young persons can replace parental guidance. Legislators are certainly expected to enact sensible plans and approaches to the problem. However, populist measures that could end in the overregulation of a medium that simply cannot be compared to either TV or radio should be rejected as counterproductive.

www.naiin.org

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El objetivo está claro, crear entre todos una Internet más Segura pero… ¿Cómo podemos cumplirlo?.
Desde el Portal del Menor www.portaldelmenor.es creemos que la mejor manera es con la participación de nuestros usuarios, por esa razón no sólo estamos publicando consejos básicos sobre seguridad en Internet, sino que hemos preparado un montón de actividades… un concurso de micro relatos, un sorteo en el que premiaremos las adaptaciones fotográficas de nuestro spot más imaginativas, un pequeño cuestionario sobre normas y una Cadena de la Seguridad con la que esperamos que, por fin, las cadenas de correo electrónico sirvan para algo positivo.

Aprender debe ser divertido, y enseñar (o intentarlo) también, nos hemos divertido mucho preparando estas actividades para vosotros, esperamos vuestra participación y esperamos que os divirtáis tanto, al menos, como nosotros preparándolas.

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http://www.internetsegura2008.com

Con motivo de la celebración el próximo 12 de febrero del Día Internacional de Internet Segura la ONG española PROTÉGELES ha coordinado una campaña de sensibilización de alcance comunitario, encaminada a concienciar sobre el uso seguro de Internet en la sociedad. Dicha campaña tiene como eje central la difusión masiva de un spot promocional que recuerda la necesidad de proteger a los menores en su navegación por Internet. El spot ha sido adaptado a todos los idiomas de la UE para que el 12 de febrero cada país lance el mismo mensaje al mundo: “Life Online is what you make of it”, apelando a la responsabilidad final del usuario en la utilización de las nuevas tecnologías.

Los días previos y durante el Día Internacional de Internet Segura, un autobús de PROTEGELES revestido de información gráfica del evento está visitando colegios y recorriendo las calles de Madrid realizando paradas durante su trayecto. En cada parada los ciudadanos, y en particular los niños, pueden subir para conocer, a través de materiales didácticos, el uso seguro de las nuevas tecnologías y consultar todas sus dudas al respecto.

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The fifth annual edition of Safer Internet Day has surpassed all records, with 55 countries taking part across the world from New Zealand to Costa Rica and Taiwan to Greenland. The unprecedented take-up reflects a growing concern from all sectors on the importance of educating young people to use online technologies safely, effectively and ethically. This year’s theme “Life online is what YOU make of IT” has not only inspired efforts to make the event more memorable than ever, it has resulted in exemplary teamwork across borders hence underlining the global nature of the virtual world.

Wide interest in the Safer Internet Day was sparked early in January by the launch of a catchy video clip by the Spanish media company Publibureau. This has already found its way to YouTube via local and national television, projections in cinema foyers and release on internet. Last week marked another high point in the lead-up, when online voting was launched to select the winners of the Safer Internet Day 2008 competition that ran from October to January. 655 teams competed and national finalists received a record 48,000 e-votes.

This week, hundreds of events are rolling out at the national level. Two major central actions have been launched today in Brussels. At midnight Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for Information Society and Media, opened the Safer Internet Day blogathon. A Youth Forum of thirty youths (14-17 year olds) from all corners of Europe will lead the second event, where they will discuss their use of mobile phones and social networking sites and make proposals concerning awareness on internet safety to the European Commission, industry and politicians.

This brings us to the high point of the day for the millions of citizens across the world who celebrate Safer Internet Day – the announcement of the winners of the European contest!

5-10 year category

First place:
“I am just a kid”; Zaharia Boiu Primary school, Sighisoara, Jud. Mures, Romania

Runner-up:
“Options”; Kindergarten of Kaparelli, Greece

11-14 year category

First place:
“The adventures of a Modern Odysseus”; 8th Junior High School of Thessaloniki, Greece

Runner-up:
“When the child is addicted to the net”; ZŠ Sibírska 42 Secondary School, Prešov 08001, Slovakia

15-19 year category

First place:
“Life online is what you make of it”; First Professional High School of Vasilika, Greece

Runner-up:
“Don’t walk that talk”; Secondary School of Linda-a-Velha, Portugal

View the winning projects on the e-voting gallery

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“Life Online is what YOU make of it” – this year’s motto of the Safer Internet Day is not just a slogan. It describes the spirit of the internet. Even more as the Web turned into Web 2.0 in the past years – and the Internet Users turned into shapers of the new Web. The Internet is a tool – and the internet users explore more and more opportunities to create their own online experience: Blogs, Communities, Social Networks, new Business Models, Sharing of Videos, Pictures, Opinions - all around the world.

But there is another side of the coin, which is also expressed in the sentence “Life Online is what YOU make of it” – it is a plea! It describes the responsibility we all – internet users, parents, teachers, managers and entrepreneurs – have. Especially when it comes to safety and security on the Internet. Even more, when it comes to young people exploring the Web.

In Germany, 95,7% of young people at the age of 14-19 are online. No other media can catch up with that. The Internet is a part of everyday life, it is taken for granted. But if something is taken for granted, there is always an imminent danger to become indifferent. We cannot deny that the internet has a lot of great things to offer – but there are also dangers, that we have to specify, and to clarify for the sake of a safe internet experience. This is a challenge. So we really should take the Safer Internet Day’s plea very seriously.

For AOL, safety and security has always been a mission – from the beginning of the internet and whilst catching up with the spirit of Web 2.0. We are partners of klicksafe.de since 2005. In the same year we founded the “AOL Sicherheitsrat” (safety & security council) in Germany. This advisory board was set up to improve our work on safety & security issues and to share the findings. And there are many more initiatives we are involved in to promote and to ensure online security and especially youth protection. Our service includes a comprehensive set of safety & security features. And take a look at www.aol.de/kinderclub - we support the Safer Internet Day with a content special.

“Life Online is what YOU make of it” – let’s live the spirit of being online!

Torsten Ahlers
CEO AOL Germany
www.aol.de

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Chers lecteurs du Blogathon 2008,

J’aimerais aujourd’hui vous narrer une expérience que j’ai personnellement vécu, et que de nombreux autres, jeunes notamment, ont certainement du partager également. Prêt pour une balade dans la jungle de l’Internet ?

Bien, j’imagine que nul n’est censé ignorer la part gigantesque qu’occupent dans la vie en ligne des jeunes le chat ou les logiciels de messagerie instantanée : MSN Live Messenger, Yahoo messenger, ICQ et tant d’autres …

Ce qui nous concerne aujourd’hui relève de directement de l’utilisation de ces services de messagerie instantanée. Pour resituer le contexte, un service messagerie instantanée permet de converser avec une liste de contacts bien définie : ceux qui veulent faire partie de notre liste de contact doivent de fait nous en demander l’autorisation et ceci fait, ces personnes peuvent voir lorsque nous nous connectons au service, et converser avec nous dès lors.

Cependant il se peut que pour de quelconques raisons, on peut décider de ne plus autoriser une personne à voir notre état « connecté » ou « hors ligne », et de fait, de nous adresser des messages instantanés : c’est ce qui s’appelle « bloquer » un contact. Pour le contact en question, on apparaît simplement « hors ligne », et rien ne lui indique qu’il a été bloqué…

Imaginez alors, chers lecteurs, la curiosité que peuvent avoir certains (sinon beaucoup) de jeunes de savoir quelles sont les personnes qui les auraient bloqués !

Et c’est justement là que l’histoire devient intéressante, car ce service… EXISTE !

En effet, en allant sur www.blockdelete.com par exemple, vous apprenez que vous pouvez découvrir en un rien de temps cette liste de personnes vous ayant bloqués dans leurs listes de contacts, moyennant tout simplement votre identifiant et mot de passe à votre compte de messagerie instantanée… rien de plus facile ! … et de plus dangereux, bien évidemment…

Seriez-vous prêt à donner votre compte et mot de passe à n’importe quel quidam ou site web venu ? vous, non ? mais les plus jeunes ? certainement.

Et c’est bel et bien ce qui arrive : nombreux sont les jeunes à s’être fait avoir par ce piège des plus tentants. Et pourtant, de nombreux indices pouvaient porter à croire que ce site n’était pas digne de confiance, à commencer par la mention suivante : « This web site is not affiliated in any case with Microsoft Corporation ». Ceci devait en effet déjà mettre la puce à l’oreille quant à la légitimité de ce site et sa capacité à prodiguer un tel service.

Le deuxième élément de réponse vient des conditions d’utilisation du site web, qui finalement stipule textuellement que les informations rentrées sur le site web peuvent être utilisées à des fins commerciales, et ceux grâce à l’accord implicite de l’utilisateur lors de l’utilisation du service. On ne peut plus clair !
Et bien évidemment, la demande par un service « non-officiel » de vos identifiants et mots de passe doit être enfin considérée comme des plus suspicieux.

Cette anecdote, ainsi que tous ces éléments mis bout à bout vous font peut-être sourire : « qui pourrait tomber dans un tel piège ? » vous dites-vous ? Pourtant, nombreuses sont les personnes qui se sont faites avoir, par manque d’observation et de sens critique : en cliquant à tout va, en cliquant n'importe où, ou encore sans réfléchir...

« Life online is what you make of IT », comment cela pourrait-il en être autrement ? Mais il ne tient qu’à vous, jeunes internautes, d'effectivement choisir la vie en ligne que VOUS choisissez de vivre… et nous sommes là pour vous aider à y voir plus clair.

Bien à vous,

L’équipe du projet LuSI – Luxembourg Safer Internet
Membre du réseau européen Insafe

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RESPE©T COPYRIGHTS is an Initiative of the German Movie Industry in order to protect the film business against piracy. Initiator of the Campaign is “Zukunft Kino Marketing GmbH”. The aim of RESPE©T COPYRIGHTS is to create public understanding for the value and to protect the original. For example, teaching materials are provided for pupils aged eight to 18 years.
Information about what is legal in matter of downloading and copying is given by the Campaign RESPE©T COPYRIGHTS, not only on the Safer Internet Day.

For further information see: www.respectcopyrights.de

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

The Internet is a powerful and positive tool but it also creates new threats to our confidence, safety and well-being.

Children are especially vulnerable and depend on adults; this is true in the real world and the virtual world. They cannot defend themselves against all threats, including those on the Internet. One example of such vulnerability is the development of pro-anorexia websites which encourage children and young people to lose weight in order to look “beautiful”. While adults understand the consequences of such messages, most children do not.

The power of Internet content to influence our behaviour should never be overlooked or underestimated. For many, the response to this has been to promote media literacy which, for the Council of Europe, means media literacy within a human rights and human dignity framework.

Is children’s well-being on the Internet and the need for them to develop media literacy skills simply a matter of choice? I do not think so. Their well-being is an obligation for us adults. We cannot leave them alone with discretionary tools at their fingertips which make them face harmful content.

In the Council of Europe we do not leave children alone to face these issues. We are developing the Internet dimensions of their rights on a daily basis. We are acutely aware and constantly underline that children have human rights just like adults.

So life on the Internet is not only about what we make of it as individual users on the Internet, it is what we make of it collectively. The best example is the collective approach of the member states of the Council of Europe to agree on the need for everyone to exercise and enjoy human rights through the European Convention on Human Rights, also online. And everyone, means everyone. There is no footnote in the European Convention on Human Rights saying that it applies to “adults only”. Another very important collective approach has been to protect the best interests of children everywhere through the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child.

But more needs to be done to protect the dignity, security and privacy of children on the Internet while, at the same time, allowing them the freedom to express and inform themselves so that they grow up feeling well and confident.

Children cannot be left alone on the Internet without the assistance of responsible teachers, parents and carers. Their confidence, safety and well-being on the Internet is a shared responsibility for all stakeholders – parents, teachers, companies, civil society and governments. In this framework, there are important responsibilities for our governments to effectively secure our human rights on the Internet. But there are also important responsibilities for private companies who design and make available the information and communication technologies for the Internet.

To conclude, the Internet is “our business”, it belongs to all of us, and must not become a virtual jungle, where its inherent freedom and anonymity are being abused.

The Council of Europe takes this responsibility very seriously. Today marks the launch of 13 new language versions[1] of our online game “Through the Wild Web Woods”, a world in which children can play in a fun and friendly fairy-tale environment while learning about their human rights and how to stay safe on the Internet. Try out the game yourself :


I also encourage you to have a look at the Council of Europe Internet Literacy Handbook, a set of fact sheets for teachers and parents to promote safe and ethical use of the Internet, translated into 9 different languages (Bulgarian, English, French, Greek, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish and Turkish). Have a look at our Internet literacy website where you can also explore our other online tools and materials on human rights and Internet safety.

Maud de Boer-Buquicchio
Deputy Secretary General
Council of Europe

Useful Links:

http://www.coe.int
http://www.coe.int/t/secretarygeneral/sga/default_en.asp
http://www.coe.int/t/transversalprojects/children/default_en.asp
http://www.wildwebwoods.org
http://www.coe.int/T/E/Human_Rights/Media/hbk_en.html
http://www.coe.int/t/dc/files/events/internet/default_en.asp

[1] The game is now available in 14 different languages: Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish and Turkish.

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Internet nowadays is affecting everyone’s life, Experts and children are using it in every aspect of life. For me and most of the youth my age, Internet is essential in our study, work and our personal life, and that’s why I joined the Youth Internet Safety Focus group here in Egypt which is part of the Cyber peace initiative which was signed by H.E. Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak in the International Youth Forum 2007 in sharm el sheikh http://www.powerofyouthforpeace.org within the Suzanne Mubarak Women’s International Peace Movement.

We’re trying to spread awareness in schools between children and young people aged 8 – 16 of the Internet dangers like cyber bullying, sexual harassments and a lot more. Actually before the first training on the beginning of this month, I didn’t think it was really a big deal, but through the training we were able to sum up all the risks together and it was really clear that We are in great danger while our stay on this worldwide window.
Here in Egypt, we started taking some steps in facing those risks as we started organizing our efforts and thoughts and directing them to spreading awareness among children and young people who are the main category in risk. We are starting our campaign with a questionnaire designed by the Focus group and directed to our main target at schools to get some responses on questions
Finally, I’d like to read about the other contributions of countries all over the world and hear what you think about our Movement and our Youth focus group…

Thank you
Nada Rady
Youth Focus Group member

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Empowering youth and children should be our main focus while addressing the issue of internet safety. This is not derived only from the fact that youth are the most active user of the internet and hence being the most exposed to its hazards; but also from the fact that they are very dynamic creatures with tremendous high potentialities.

The process of empowering youth should be a joint collaborative effort where different actors take part in it. This process should include different actors; governmental sectors, industry, civil society, parents/carers and even individuals as merely representing their own selves. To better carry out this process, it shouldn't be always an up-downward process where parents or school dictate on youth what to do; fairly it should be a down-upward process where youth feel that they are the heart of it and that they are the main practitioners. The ultimate goal of empowering youth is to enable them to become catalyst of change not only for themselves but for the entire society.

The role of those who have the upper hand is to provide youth with all necessary information and resources, to let youth assess the values by which the would follow, to let them arbitrate by themselves the harmful materials on the web, to let them experience self-surveillance and last to provide them with guidance, however this is to be in a from of a mentor-mentee relationship.

On the other hand, the role of youth would start by recognizing the hazards and risks which threat them on the web then to determine by themselves the best way to deal and surmount such threats. Eventually, they should be empowered to be the catalyst of raising awareness and spreading it out through the deployment of different effective channels and tools to reach the largest possible segment in the society.

The ultimate goal of the web is to support and improve our life and our wellbeing not to degrade and savage them.

Thanks,
Noha Fathy
Cyber Peace Initiative Team

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  The State Agency for Child Protection organized in December 2007 a round table “ Children in the informational society- opportunities and risks”. The event showed SACP’s willingness to join the three-year program of the Council of Europe “ Building Europe for and with Children” and in confirmation of the consequent work of SACP for the realization of child rights in Internet.
     The goal of the round table was to exchange information about good practices on prevention and raising the public awareness and to point out measures for counteracting the threats for the children in the informational society.
     Children, representatives of state and non-governmental organizations, researchers and business organizations took part in the event.
     You can see the presentations and reports on different topics on the SACP
website: www. sacp.government.bg - “Children in the Informational Society”.
On the same website you can be informed about the Internet safety and security rules, as well read the opinions of the members of the Child Council to SACP on safe behavior and rules on the net.

През месец декември 2007 г. Държавната агенция за закрила на детето организира кръгла маса на тема "Децата в информационното общество - възможности и рискове ". Форумът бе израз на съпричастността на ДАЗД към изпълнението на тригодишната програма на Съвета на Европа "Да изградим Европа с и за децата" и в потвърждение на последователната работа на ДАЗД за реализиране на правата на децата в Интернет.
     Целта бе да се обмени информация за добри практики по превенция и повишаване на обществената осведоменост и да набележим мерки за противодействие на заплахите за децата в информационното общество.
     Участваха деца, представители на правителствени и неправителствени организации, изследователи, а също и бизнес организации.
     Bие имате възможност да се запознаете с изнесените по разглежданите теми от участниците доклади и презентации на Интернет страницата на Държавната агенция за закрила на детето – www.sacp.government.bg – "Децата в информационното общество”.
На същата страница можете да се информирате за правилата за сигурност и безопасност в Интернет, както и да прочетете мненията на Детския съвет към ДАЗД за поведението и правилата в Интернет.

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Dragi co-cetateni ai Internetului,

Mai tineri sau mai in varsta, mai atotcunoscatori ai detaliilor tehnice sau nu, mai luminati sau ignoranti, iata ca ne-a prins anul 2008, ziua de gratie 12 Faurar propusa de Comisia Europeana ca Ziua pentru Siguranta Internetului.

Nu cred ca trebuie sa va mai demonstrez ca Internetul este o resursa extrem de utila pentru oricare dintre noi indiferent de domeniul in care activam - enciclopedia gratuita in limba romana deja are peste 100 000 de articole, o simpla hoinareala pe web ne aduce resurse utile, iar blogurile si RSS-ul fac parte din cotidianul zilnic al internautului.

La fel ca in lumea reala, si cea virtuala este plina de capcane si probleme care pot sa o faca nesigura pentru cei mai putin avertizati cu privire la chestiunile care pot sa apara. De obicei scriu despre Legi & Internet si despre cum se interpreteaza actele normative in legatura cu diversele actiuni de pe Internet. Astazi -facem o scurta divagatie.

Sunt sigur ca cititorii insemnarii stiu mai bine ce sa faca pe Internet, asa ca o sa ma rezum la 2 recomandari referitoare la ce sa NU faceti pe Internet :

a) Ce tie nu-ti place altuia nu-i face.
b) Ce nu faci offline, nu fa nici online
Adica :
Intri intr-o sala de teatru fluierind si tipind sau te uiti sa vezi cam care sunt regulile locului ? Atunci ar fi bine poate sa citesti regulile de postare pe un forum sau lista de discutii inainte sa scrii ceva.
Ii strigi unui necunoscut pe strada cuvinte dure, doar pentru ca a spus ceva cu care nu esti de acord ? Atunci fii un pic mai tolerant in comentariul sau insemnarile tale publice cind vezi o insemnare pe Internet care nu iti place.
Ai fura o carte de debit din mina unuia de pe strada ca sa scoti banii de pe ea ? Atunci fi sigur ca este acelasi lucru sa faci phishing, chiar daca nu-l vezi pe omul care are cardul.
s.a.m.d.

Dincolo de aceste informatii de bun simt, s-au dezvoltat insa deja mai multe resurse in limba romana cu privire la diversele aspecte ale sigurantei si securitatii pe Internet :

- Daca va intereseaza siguranta copiilor pe Internet, site-ul sigur.info este un foarte bun punct de plecare in explorarea acestei probleme, inclusiv prin existenta unui formular de raportare a abuzurilor pe Internet
- Daca vreti sa stiti mai multe despre bunele maniere pe Internet si care este Neticheta in utilizarea postei electronice, a serviciilor de chat sau messanger, Leonardo a facut o treaba excelenta in reunirea acestor informatii pe site-ul neticheta.ro
- Daca vreti sa aflati mai multe cu privire la legile care va protejeaza, puteti cauta pe www.legi-internet.ro , iar daca vreti sa raportati vreo infractiune informatica puteti sa o faceti pe site-ul efrauda.ro
- Daca vreti sa aflat mai multe detalii despre securitatea unui sistem de Internet Banking, puteti vedea citeva intrebari si raspunsuri relevanta pe site-ul bancii Raiffeisen
- Daca vreti sa fiti mai siguri in timp ce cumparati online, puteti sa va aflati drepturile sau , daca aveti probleme sa va plingeti la autoritatea competenta

Si de ce toate aceste resurse ? Pentru ca putem sa discutam mult si bine despre cit de sigur sau nesigur este Internetul, dar ceea ce putem face noi este sa ne informam mai bine si sa informam si pe altii cu privire la problemele si solutiile existente. Resursele de mai sus sunt cele pe care le recomand prietenilor mei.

In fine, cum evident nu pot sa le stiu pe toate - va rog pe voi sa ma ajutati in completarea listei prin postarea unui comentariu prin care sa imi aratati resursele (de preferat in limba romana) folosite de voi pentru educatia in privinta sigurantei pe Internet.

O zi buna
Bogdan Manolea

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The Cyber Peace Initiative was launched at the International Youth Forum in Sharm el Sheikh in September 2007. It is a dynamic process that aims at systematically enhancing usage of ICT and Internet based tools to enable youth to participate actively in the communication, intercultural understanding, empathy creation, exploration of different cultural and national realities, and skills development that underlie sustainable peace enhancement. One of the seven tracks involved in this initiative is the Internet Safety Focus Group. This group is dedicated to raising awareness among youth about the potential dangers associated with the use of the Internet.

Over the past decade, the Internet has quite expectedly become a vital tool for Egyptians. Uses that Egyptians find for this tool have diversified immensely, and the age of Egyptians finding new ways to connect with Internet users both locally and globally has gone down and down. This fact creates great opportunities offering many young Egyptians the chance to broaden their horizons, both culturally and in terms of income with a click of a mouse button.

As a young person using the Internet in both my profession as well as in my personal life, it is clear to me that using the Internet must be done cautiously. The identified risks and dangers involved, whether these be social, intellectual, financial, or just psychological are quite frightening, but not less than the implications involved to personal security of young, unwary users. The lessons learned by more developed countries in which the Internet is more widely used, as well as the methods used to counter these dangers are vital for us. Theft of identity or intellectual property, online grooming, exposure to inappropriate content, or simple cyber bullying are hazards that create victims instead of opportunities.

The question remains on how the Internet is posing a risk to young Egyptians. Are the dangers the same for Egyptian children as are those for children all over the world? How can we help identify these risks, and what are the steps we need to take to protect youth from falling prey to them?

Addressing these issues and raising young people’s awareness to them is quite a large task. I must assume that these concerns are shared by all those participating in the Safer Internet Day Blogathon. I have taken this opportunity to reach out and communicate my concerns, and I invite all who read this blog to share your ideas and experiences. The information you provide may help save a young person’s innovative ideas which could contribute to making this world a better place, or just save another from being terrorized by bullies or online predators.

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The Safer Internet Day this year in Bulgaria comes in the middle of a months-long campaign that is to continue for several months more.
Public events: In November and Februdary, two round-table discussions dedicated to the safety of children in the Net were organised by the State Agency for Child Protection, and by Microsoft-Bulgaria and the Public Council for Safer Internet - the advisory body to the national Hotline against illegal and harmful content in Internet. At the first round-table various Safer Internet projects by different organisations and institutions were presented and a discussion on future actions was held with participation of representatives of state bodies, NGOs, the Hotline and academic circles.
On February 6, a round-table for children, parents, teachers and the media presented the agenda of a 6-month awareness campaign 'Children Safe in the Net' initiated by Microsoft-Bulgaria, the children's portal site Az-deteto.com and the Hotline. The campaign started from 1 December, 2007 and is to continue until end of May. An online awareness game for children - 'The Eighth Rule' - attracts every month hundreds of children who are proposing their own ideas for an additional rule to the 7 golden rules for chidlren's safety in Internet. The best 3 proposals are awarded prizes every month and in May an overall winner will receive the grand prize - a laptop computer. Till the end of December, the game attracted 1130 participants from all over the country.
In the evening of the Safer Internet Day, at the House of Cinema a short movie on children's safety online will be presented to the public. Afterwards the movie will be shown at schools in the presence of the campaign 'Face' - the children's music idol Viktoria Erin.

SID participation: Bulgaria participated in the European SID competition with 16 entries. On February 12, at an awarding ceremony the best 2 projects in each age category will receive prizes and special Safer Internet Certificates from the Public Council for Safer Internet, the Ministry of Education and the state agencies for child protection and for information technology.
Coming up: For later this year, one more public awareness campaign is being organised by the Hotline and Partners-Bulgaria Foundation using TV-spots, billboards and posters originally designed by Nobody's Children Foundation of Poland.
From January, the Bulgarian Hotline started distributing the first original Bulgarian parental control software - Child Defender. The program was designed by Delphin Foundation and is being distributed for free through schools and through the website programme website www.childdef.com where it can be downloaded by every parent.
The Bulgarian Hotline, together with Parents Association, are to pilot this year an interactive educational course on Virtual and Real Violence in several schools which volunteered to test the course before proposing it to the Ministry of Education as an integral part of the information technology education.

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Recent studies showed that Internet users, in particular teenagers, young mothers and professionals, are more and more spending most of their time using social networking sites (e.g. Facebook). Understanding the addictive nature and the shift into this 'online life' is still a new challenge. However, if we look at this phenomenon, we notice that sharing personal information on social networking sites, opening up and laying emotions on the line with people who are unknown is not without risk. The ‘online life’ is foreseen to grow considerably within the next ten years as almost everything that people and organisations will do it will be recorded and stored in databases.

It is therefore crucial to underscore that the current environment in which we live and operate demands to make users aware of the fact that their world of virtual friendships involves a high degree of risk. We are all aware that those people that would like to break users’ online privacy are more likely to create a false profile on the sites.

To this end ENISA is committed to support initiatives to promote awareness of the risk of a world of virtual reality friendships across Europe. The new world scenario presents opportunities to engage in raising information security awareness. These occasions must be taken into account. Moreover, the Awareness Raising (AR) Community, recently lunched by ENISA, is fully engaged in further analyse the phenomena of 'life online'. We are convinced that to overcome the challenges presented by the growing ‘online life’ phenomenon, it is imperative for the AR Community to mark the beginning of a deep engagement not only with sharing but also with analysis of European information security good practices.

For more information on the AR Community and its activities, please contact us at awareness@enisa.europa.eu

Isabella Santa
Senior Expert Awareness Raising
ENISA
P.O. Box 1309
71001 Heraklion
Greece

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Internet is een krachtige en positieve tool maar laat ook negatieve sporen na in ons vertrouwen naar de gemeenschap toe en de veiligheid in het algemeen. Kinderen zijn dan ook een makkelijke prooi voor de mallafiden die op het Internet ongezien en veelal ongestraft hun ding kunnen doen. Reden om zeker niet onbetuigd te blijven en actief mee te helpen aan de opbouw van een beschermende omgeving waarbij onze kinderen, en uiteraard ook volwassenen, zich veilig voelen. Wij nodigen dan ook iedereen uit om aan deze blog deel te nemen vooral in het kader van de veiligheid op het Internet voor kinderen. Voor ons is de focus gericht op de vraag : Welke methodes en berichten hebben we nodig om ouders, opvoeders, leerkrachten en ook de kinderen effectief te bereiken in de actie tot bescherming van onze kinderen ?. Neem deel aan onze poll op deze link

Internet Society Belgium staat reeds lang op de barricades, sinds het ontstaan van de internationale organisatie is de doelstelling het streven naar een stabiel, toegankelijk en veilig Internet voor iedereen. In December 2007 was onze voorzitter in Washington op het FOSI congres waar hij als panellid deel nam aan het debat Education - What methods and messages do we need to effectively reach parents, teachers and children? Wij hopen dit jaar ook in België een dergelijk congres te organiseren. Onze deelname aan de SaferInternet Day 2008 is onderdeel van onze campagne die we niet alleen nationaal maar ook internationaal voeren. En dit samen met o.a. het Family Online Safety Institute.

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The virtual environment is offering us today a golden opportunity for achievement. With its new tools, channels and technologies, life on line is not a mere reflection of what we do anymore. It is becoming more and more our gateway to creativity, new thoughts, actions and unprecedented ambitions. If this is the case, and if our on line life is offering us a "second chance" to assert ourselves and to achieve what we might or might not have been capable of in real life, can we safeguard this new "virtual territory" from our own abuses and mishandling?

As a member of the Cyber Peace Initiative team in Egypt, i would like to share with you what we have been trying to do to achieve this objective.

The Cyber Peace Team in Egypt set up to work on this objective in September 2007. Our Initiative, the Cyber Peace Program, was launched as a civil society effort under The Suzanne Mubarak Women's International Peace Movement. The program is an effort by youth and for youth. To ensure its success, we have allied ourselves with major international organizations active in the field, with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in Egypt and with key private sector companies.

Track 6 of our Initiative that you could read on www.cyberpeaceinitiative.org aims at creating a youth interent safety focus group. The youth group will work to increase awareness about internet safety and the huge potential of ICT. The groups aims at offering kids and youth the chance to identify by themselves harmful content and decide on the best way to deal with that through a participatory approach.

The focus group will serve the community and will have to forge strong relations with it. Therefore, networking and survey research would have to be initial objectives of our work. We will need to to consider the paucity of Internet awareness among the majority of the parent population and that youth are the masters of the internet, with parents -unfortunately- lagging behind in both expertise and exposure in most cases.

We have started our first training for the youth focus group last week (photos attached)

But part of our plan too is to establish a parents focus group as well to support the youth team and act as ambassadors in different communities in Egypt and regionally. The first meeting of our parents group was held on the 6th of February.

We hope to work not only on the local level, but also regionally and internationally. Share with us your thoughts about our plans and how best to activate the group. We welcome new suggestions and creative ideas.

with my best wishes for a Safer Internet Day
Nevine Tewfik - The Cyber Peace Team

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The virtual environment is offering us today a golden opportunity for achievement. With its new tools, channels and technologies, life on line is not a mere reflection of what we do anymore. It is becoming more and more our gateway to creativity, new thoughts, actions and unprecedented ambitions. If this is the case, and if our on line life is offering us a "second chance" to assert ourselves and to achieve what we might or might not have been capable of in real life, can we safeguard this new "virtual territory" from our own abuses and mishandling?

As a member of the Cyber Peace Initiative team in Egypt, i would like to share with you what we have been trying to do to achieve this objective.

The Cyber Peace Team in Egypt set up to work on this objective in September 2007. Our Initiative, the Cyber Peace Program, was launched as a civil society effort under The Suzanne Mubarak Women's International Peace Movement. The program is an effort by youth and for youth. To ensure its success, we have allied ourselves with major international organizations active in the field, with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in Egypt and with key private sector companies.

Track 6 of our Initiative that you could read on www.cyberpeaceinitiative.org aims at creating a youth interent safety focus group. The youth group will work to increase awareness about internet safety and the huge potential of ICT. The groups aims at offering kids and youth the chance to identify by themselves harmful content and decide on the best way to deal with that through a participatory approach.

The focus group will serve the community and will have to forge strong relations with it. Therefore, networking and survey research would have to be initial objectives of our work. We will need to to consider the paucity of Internet awareness among the majority of the parent population and that youth are the masters of the internet, with parents -unfortunately- lagging behind in both expertise and exposure in most cases.

We have started our first training for the youth focus group last week (photos attached)

But part of our plan too is to establish a parents focus group as well to support the youth team and act as ambassadors in different communities in Egypt and regionally. The first meeting of our parents group was held on the 6th of February.

We hope to work not only on the local level, but also regionally and internationally. Share with us your thoughts about our plans and how best to activate the group. We welcome new suggestions and creative ideas.

with my best wishes for a Safer Internet Day
Nevine Tewfik - The Cyber Peace Team

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Online gokken/pokeren

Verdoken probleem

Gokcultuur doorbreken in de klas

1. Negeer het onderwerp niet uit angst dat het nog meer leerlingen op ideeën zal brengen. Zet gokken in het rijtje van andere genotsmiddelen: roken, drugs, alcohol.
2. Luister naar de leerlingen. Praten ze vaak over winnen of verliezen? Is geld een belangrijk gespreksonderwerp? Lenen ze van elkaar? Belicht: hoe omgaan met geld, geld verdienen, geld sparen en uitgeven.
3. Toon interesse. Waarom vinden ze gokken leuk? Wegen de nadelen op tegen de voordelen? Kunnen ze dezelfde voordelen/kicks ook ergens anders vinden?
4. Vaak gokken leerlingen uit verveling. Zorg voor andere ontspanningsmogelijkheden waar leerlingen een kick uit halen, bijvoorbeeld een voetbaltornooi over de middag.
5. Belicht gokken vanuit de valkuilen waar de meeste gokkers in tuinen. Pols naar hun eigen strategieën en ervaringen. Hoe zorgen zij ervoor dat ze winnen? Ontkracht van daaruit hun foute redeneringen over gokken.

Het complete dossier van De Eerste Lijn over gokken (Wat doe je bijvoorbeeld als je merkt dat een leerling gokt, hoe knoop je het eerste gesprek aan over zijn probleem, wat zijn de valkuilen van gokken?) kan je terugvinden op www.klasse.be/eerstelijn)

Stappenplan tegen gokverslaving (De Eerste Lijn)

Lees de reportage 'Pokerfaces in de klas'

Surf naar de website van Klasse

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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.

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.

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.

TICRF invite primary schools teachers to create interesting and helpful teaching programs that will encourage teachers to learn about the websites rating system and provide them with useful material to help students use the Internet safety. These plans provide different resources depending on student age. For instance, the different Internet Safety issues and knowledge required by lower, middle and upper primary schools’ students, and the designing of teaching strategies on which this depends.

www.ticrf.org.tw

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Life Online can be absolutely fascinating for those who engage with its offerings. Be it researching for information, communicating with people around the world in real time such as through chatting, through cheap VOIP calls, establishing contacts with peers and family through social networking websites, publishing one’s own blogs or playing online games .. the online world offers it all. The opportunities that are presented brings the world closer, opens up new possibilities and fosters new era of relationships, in fact it is the relationship which is one of the most important outcomes of the new facet of online communications.

The boundaries of these opportunities are constantly being tested, reshaped and expanded by online users , typically young people. The top down approach of the web has changed with the advent of the web2.0, the web for the masses. It is no longer in the hands of the elites who has the luxury of creating content and pushing them at the rest of the world. And the results are wonderful. Now we have any individual who can post their own writing, photos, videos online for free even without any formal training. The simplicity with which these activities can be done is amazing and it is only going to be simpler. The web applications that are emerging gradually will push more and more people to store their work online rather than in a pc. The good thing about these is that one can access them from anywhere and share them with the rest of the world. Technology is moving at breakneck speed in ensuring that every new piece of gadget can have its share of the Internet .We all know about gaming consoles connecting to the internet for playing multiplayer online games. Even some devices such as remote controls used at home for controlling audio video gadgets can store information on the Internet and download data from it. This shows what role the online world is going to play in our lives soon.

The new buzz is all about creating and sharing. The online world has revolutionized the way that people are bringing out their creativity to the rest of the world. Social networks play a very significant role in this regard. They have launched the career of many aspiring youngsters in the field of music and art. Young people keep their peers updated through their online journals about their daily life. We hear about couple who first met on the Internet through chat and then went on to tie the marital bonds. Keeping in touch with distant friends and relatives through cheap VOIP calls or free VOIP applications such as skype, msn messenger , yahoo messenger etc becomes a regular feature. All these would not have been possible without the online services and products that we have now and we must make most use of these technologies.

Sadly, the Internet is not only the positives. Then we probably would not have to organize the Internet Safety day.
Some of the distinctive aspects of virtual settings such as: the sense of safe distance allows close emotional and psychological contact with any stranger. The ease of contact with young people through online gaming, one to one chat and other forms of online communications, away from adult supervision allows a person who might adopt a new personality online to engage in rapid interaction with a volatile and unsuspecting child. As in the physical world; in the vitual world adults intent on contacting children enter into the places that they go and there they identify the potentially vulnerable child.

Online identity is something that we often do not pay much attention to. Young people may know about online predators who can lure them to dangerous situation, but sometimes they are not aware of the risks posed by their own postings online. It is good to remember the boundaries that restrict us in the physical life and to acknowledge that the online world is just the extension of our physical world with all its attributes. Anything that goes out into the online world stays there, literally for ever. If one is not comfortable about saying something in the physical world face to face, those things should be better kept off the online environment.

It must be kept in mind that the entire responsibility of safety on the Internet is not only on the individual particularly young people. It is evident that the positive and negative forces that operate in real life manifest themselves in this virtual space. Thus in order to better protect children it is important to know how young people interact and experience this realm. As technology evolves the nature of the involvement and its impacts will also change and thus these must be monitored to ensure appropriate responses. Better understanding of the different forces that affect children in this space and taking appropriate measures will result in better protection of their rights to live free of exploitation.

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In the information-driven 21st century, a dramatic advance in IT technology ushered in deeply interconnected world where people can access the internet anytime and anywhere. Moreover this easily accessible world of virtual space is so closely interwound with the real world that people can do shopping, making friends and so on. Especially, as the young in other countires, Korea's young and tech-savvy internet users have spent more time in life online and led today's digital community. Therefore we should ensure that this online world is a safe and pleasant place and also our children should learn thier ability to create and change this world as well as resposibility.

With considred the fact, KISCOM(Korea Internet Safety Commission), a statutory organisation of Korea, has been working with schools, parent's groups and other stakeholders like IT industry to encourage the young users to take the initiative for understanding and expading good practices in cyberspace.

Cyber Safety School : KISCOM designates Cyber Safety Schools-elementary, middle and high schools and provides a range of special educational program tailored to each institution, including exhibitions, competitions and special lectures on how to use the internet wisely. The programs are designed for students to acknowledge advers effects of the Internet and to learn how to use the Internet sensibly.
Here are some works done by our students for competitions in Cyber Safety School.

(from the left and in clockwise, 1 KIM Hana - Maehayng Girl's Information Highschool, 2 KANG, Bongsu - Namhan Middle School, 3 KIM, Solbin - Namhan Middle School, 4 KIM, Juyong - Namhan Middle School, 5 KIM. Danbin - Maehayng Girl's Information Highschool)

Recommended Websites for Youth : KISCOM selects and publishes a quarterly list of websites containing beneficial information for minors in order to promote wise use of such information. This white list is also monitored and updated by trained staffs for ensuring safety of information for youth. Please visit www.iteennet.or.kr designated for this program.

Public Awareness Campaigns : KISCOM invites each and every internet user to join the journey to build a safer cyberspace, and carries our a number of campaignes in cooperation with media outlets and civic organisations.
Now enjoy one of KISCOM's TV commercials, which delivers the responsible onlien comments under the title of 'everything is starting from your fingertip'.

Click here for the full clip.

Along with our public awareness of Internet Safety, KISCOM runs other programs to protect Internet users from illegal and harmful contents. As one of these, we operate 'Illegal & harmful Information Report Center'
for 24/7 to receive public reports which can be forwarded to deliberation committees of KISCOM or relevant authorities such as a law enforcement agency. Visit our center at www.singo.or.kr.
If you find any websites in Korean or from Korea, which you suspect may be illegal, please report us at www.kiscom.or.kr/report.

KISCOM also provides assistance to settle disputes over violation of rights in cyberspace, including privacy infringement and defamation of character through our Mediation department on dispute over cyber defamation of character.
In addition to mediation, in cases where a victim of privacy invasion or violation of one's rights in cyberspace intends to file a civil/criminal lawsuit against an offender, the department offers practical assistance by offically requesting information on an alleged perpetrator. For more information, visit www.bj.or.kr.

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Young children (ages 2-10 years) can be very adept at independently navigating the internet, using mobile phones and other information communication technology (ICT). Their young age means they have difficulty understanding risk and protecting themselves from harm, yet often their online activity is unsupervised. In this connected world, such cybersafety education now needs to be considered fundamental child safety instruction, alongside road and water safety.

Engaging children in cybercitizenship education from the very first time they use the ICT, is key to ensuring that children's online lives stay safe, secure and happy.

Hector's World™ is a visually stunning animated education program which uses entertainment to provide younger children with the fundamental building blocks of cybercitizenship.

Click on the image above to check out the underwater world of Silicon Deep where the bottlenose dolphin Hector Protector™ and his friends help children learn about staying safe online.

Hector's World™ education uses digital technologies to offer engaging characters children can bond with and use as positive online role models. These characters, including the bottlenose dolphin Hector Protector™, encounter situations online that are often complex and which need to be carefully thought through. Children can then pattern their behavior on our characters’ critical thinking, group problem solving, and consultation with parents and other trusted adults, while they increase their own safety knowledge and skills.

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Hector’s World™ content includes:
• The Hector’s World Safety Button™ is a free download that empowers children to deal with unwanted content online. There are Windows 2000, XP and Vista button versions, and soon Mac OS10. With the XP version, there are also character, language and accessibility options.
• At www.hectorsworld.com you can find five cybersafety episodes about personal information online, funded by Microsoft NZ and the New Zealand Government’s Digital Strategy. Future episode topics include computer security, cyberbullying, intellectual property and safe surfing.
• There are also puzzles, colour-in books, ‘discussion points’ for parents and sample lesson plans for teachers.
• We also have an online Teachers’ Forum where teachers from many countries can exchange ideas on creative ways to use Hector’s World resources.

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From meeting new friends who share your interests, searching for stuff, communicating with others and playing games, the internet has become the medium for many of the routine tasks of daily life. The internet has made it possible for us to become part of a virtual community of people connected by interest not geography. We are citizens of both the real and online worlds. But, are these worlds so very different?

In everyday life we naturally think about our own safety and don't put ourselves in risky situations. We wouldn't walk up to people we've never met before and tell them where we live and our mobile number. But, are we so careful online? Do we behave differently online than in the "physical" world? How does our behaviour impact on the online environment?

In the street if we see a poster showing a cat next to a hippo that appears to be the same size, do we believe a hippo is really that small? In the same way should we believe everything we see on the internet? Online if we are offered money or prizes for our personal information should we think someone is just being nice and accept the money? We've learnt in everyday life to be smart about what's true or not, how can we be sure what's real or true when we see it online?

Your everyday life, stuff about you that's private, your personal information, your security....it's all important and not to be messed with. Your life online is no different. Do we know how to do things safely online so that we don't even consider doing something that may have a negative impact on our online lives? What online safety issues are important to you?

It's YOUR life online; it's what YOU make of it. If you would like advice or information about any internet safety issue please call our helpline on freecall 1800 880 176 or visit www.cybersmartkids.com.au or www.netalert.gov.au.

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New Zealand's internet safety group, NetSafe, has marked Safer Internet Day by launching the ‘Cybercitizenship Pathway’ - a pioneering initiative to help teachers integrate online safety and security education into their classroom programmes.

NetSafe receives many queries from teachers who recognise that education about ‘how to use ICT’ needs to go hand-in-hand with education about ‘how to safely and ethically use ICT’ in order to help cultivate young cybercitizens – people who act ethically and responsibly online. That’s why we've created the Cybercitizenship Pathway, a guide for teachers to help them integrate online safety and security education into their classroom programmes. It also provides suggested activities across a range of curriculum areas, and is New Zealand’s first cybersafety programme to work-in with national curricula from early childhood through primary and high school levels.

Richard Beach says that “in order to ensure the safety and security of everyone in schools and for the future, users must understand the impact and potential of ICT use, apply sound personal safety strategies, and understand, follow and promote cybersafety guidelines which support community safety and wellbeing. International research suggests that the most effective way to teach positive cybercitizenship is by integrating learning opportunities across the curriculum in developmentally appropriate ways.”

The Pathway is freely available in PDF format from www.netsafe.org.nz and will evolve over the next month into a fully interactive online resource. The Cybercitizenship Pathway will link in with resources from around the world, so that teachers can choose which best suits the learning activity and students’ developmental level.

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As patron of Safer Internet Day, it is my pleasure to launch the third world-wide Blogathon which runs for the entire day: 12 February 2008. Over the next 24 hours, we hope to bring together organisations and individuals from all four corners of the world to interact and share their thoughts on a very important theme: “Life online is what YOU make of IT”.

This is the third time there has been a Blogathon to mark Safer Internet Day. As the European Commissioner responsible for Internet, interactive TV and mobile communications, I find it very encouraging to see a much greater public awareness of how to be safer when online. In 2004, just 14 countries participated in Safer Internet Day. Today almost 50 countries are taking part. This year's theme, “Life online is what YOU make of IT”, emphasises the responsibility of each and every one of us to make the online environment a place where young people can safely play, interact and learn.

In 2008, we have placed a special focus on youth and their active participation in dialogues on issues that concern them. The blogathon is an important tool that can include everyone. In Brussels, we have organised the first ever pan-European Safer Internet Youth Forum, in which 30 teenagers from Finland, the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Sweden, Great Britain, The Netherlands, Germany, Austria and Iceland will have the chance to put their views and recommendations to my colleague Meglena Kuneva – the EU's Consumer Commissioner –, and to a number of Members of the European Parliament.

I wish good luck to all of you participating in the blogathon and in the Youth Forum, and strongly encourage you share with us and with each other, your thoughts and experiences.

Viviane Reding
European Commissioner for Information Society and Media

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