This year’s Blogathon has come to an end.

On 12 February 2008, members of the Insafe network and other organisations from 28 countries worldwide responded to the invitation to blog on the theme “Life online is what YOU make of IT”: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Korea, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, Uruguay, the United States. Newcomers were Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Egypt, Romania and Uruguay.

Bloggers from around the world agree that the internet is a great tool if used astutely. Privacy, personal data, respect, digital literacy and the role of parents and teachers are just a few of the issues illustrated in postings that offer particularly interesting reading. The 253 comments recorded in the course of the week succeeding Safer Internet Day provide ample proof of this.

This year’s blogging marathon shows a keen interest in discussing life online and addressing questions that spring from it. This makes us think that Insafe should take on the challenge of extending the dialogue around this year’s theme as there seems to be a genuine need for exchange of views and practice internationally - global issues requiring global thinking.

Thank you all for contributing to the success of the fifth Safer Internet Day. Keep informed on Insafe, rendez-vous at: www.saferinternet.org

See you online!

Beyond Borders congratulates Canadian Centre for Child Protection and joins in launching International Safer Internet Day.
Today,they start the distribution of nearly 3 million Internet safety brochures throughout the Canadian school system.

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One of the biggest challenges parents and educators face in dealing with the online world is how much more comfortable with it young people generally are. Feeling like immigrants to a world where their children are natives can be a big obstacle to parents and teachers when they try to teach their children about safe and responsible Internet use.

According to research by Canada’s leading media education organization, Media Awareness Network, the existence of household rules about Internet use had a significant effect on online behaviour: for instance, rules about not visiting inappropriate sites reduced the frequency of those visits from 43 percent of Grade Six students polled to 14 percent. Unfortunately, the majority of students polled said that they had never discussed any online activity other than viewing or downloading music and videos. Even more worryingly, in most cases parents talk to their children less often as the children get older, and the number of household rules decreases. This is happening just as young people are becoming exposed to more and more risky behaviour: by Grade Eleven, one-third of both boys and girls have met online acquaintances in person.

Devenir e-parent is a free resource designed to help parents feel more comfortable and confident talking to their children about the risks and responsibilities of being online. The program’s host, Alice, leads you through a variety of online environments with interactive questions and interviews with experts and young people. The entire program is thirty minutes long, but can be done one module at a time: the five modules are “Research and Homework,” “Online Relationships,” “Inappropriate Content,” “Online Marketing” and “Cyber-Addiction.” Finally, the “Family Internet Contract” allows parents to choose, along with their children, appropriate household Internet rules for their families.

“Web 2.0” theory is about an “architecture of participation,” a term coined by author and open-source supporter, Tim O'Reilly, in 2004. In this environment, visitors have a stake in content through their own interaction. If you think about it, the evolution of the Internet has mirrored the evolution of education. Research has proven that teacher-centered education, in which students are treated as passive vessels waiting to be filled by lecture and instruction, is ineffective and therefore learner-centered education has become the focus, allowing the learner a stake in his/her education through engaging activities, discussion, self-directed learning and processes that allow a scaffolding of knowledge. With the internet mirroring a similar evolution, opportunities for integrating internet and classroom education abound, allowing us to actively model safe and responsible behavior and create/dictate a positive, rewarding student experience.

It is likely that the term, “Web 2.0” will become passé, overwritten by even newer technologies and theories. The important goal is not to adopt new terminology, but to recognize that the digital world is becoming more interactive and user controlled. Life online really IS what we all make of it, a thought that suggests both optimism for technologies and a warning to remain conscious of integrating safety into online activity.

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INHOPE is the International Association of Internet Hotlines and was founded in 1999 under the EC Safer Internet Action Plan.

The mission of the INHOPE Association is to support and enhance the performance of Internet Hotlines around the World, ensuring swift action is taken in responding to reports of illegal content making the internet a safer place.

Over the last decade the Internet has changed the way we communicate, the way we do business and ultimately the way we live. Unfortunately, there is also a downside to the Internet and the last number of years has seen an increase in illegal content online.

Hotlines have a key role to play in tackling the problems mentioned above and therefore making the Internet a safer place. They offer an easy way for the public to report suspected illegal sites and content they find on the Internet. Each report is reviewed by a content analyst and origin on the internet is traced and action is taken to ensure swift response.

Illegal activity on the Internet is a cross border problem that no one organisation can effectively tackle alone. Internet Hotlines have proven to be an effective first line of defence against illegal activity online.

INHOPE represents Internet Hotlines all over the world, supporting them in their aim to respond to reports of illegal content to make the Internet safer.

Click here to find out more about INHOPE at www.inhope.org

Chile es uno de los países latinoamericamos con mayor penetración de las nuevas tecnologías, las que han modificado las conductas de las personas en los más diversos ámbitos.
Este es uno de los motivos principales por los que nuestra institución, la ONG Paicabí (www.paicabi.cl) decidió abordar el tema de la seguridad en internet gracias a un proyecto apoyado por Save the Children.
La idea fue diseñar un sitio web sobre los riesgos que pueden existir cuando se navega en internet o se utilizan algunas de sus principales herramientas, presentando contenidos orientados a la comunidad escolar.
Se crearon secciones diferenciadas para alumnos y profesores, usando como base las experiencias de otros países y adaptando el lenguaje y las temáticas a la realidad chilena.
Como nuestra intención era que se trabajara en los colegios, firmamos un convenio con el Ministerio de Educación para difundir y presentar el sitio web en los establecimientos educacionales de la Región de Valparaíso (Chile). Conseguimos bastante difusión y apoyo, y pretendemos continuar con el trabajo durante el año 2008, ampliando los contenidos y realizando talleres de capacitación para todos los agentes de la comunidad escolar.
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Nuestro enfoque para abordar la seguridad en internet fue señalar que las nuevas tecnologías ofrecen a las personas grandes posibilidades en términos de sus usos apropiados, pero para que estos se hagan realidad hay que poner atención a los peligros a los que se exponen los niños y niñas que se enfrentan sin supervisión a la red.
Los temas centrales que trabajamos con los niños fueron el anonimato y la veracidad de los contenidos presentes en internet. Nuestra ONG trabaja en el tema del abuso sexual infantil, en prevención y atención directa, por lo que llamamos la atención sobre los peligros a los que se puede exponer un niño o niña que se encuentra con un adulto en un chat o a través del Messenger, sin saber que es un adulto y sin conocer sus verdaderas intenciones.
Este es en pocas palabras nuestro proyecto, que tenemos la intención de seguir desarrollando y que desde Chile (y desde una de sus regiones, Valparaíso, no desde la capital) pretende aportar al tema de la seguridad en internet, particularmente para proteger a nuestros niños y niñas.
Felicitaciones por la iniciativa.

Alejandro Arredondo Ossandón
Encargado de Comunicaciones y RR.PP.
ONG Paicabí - Chile

Imágenes del Lanzamiento del Sitio Web. El director ejecutivo de la ONG Paicabí, Iván Zamora junto al representante regional del Ministerio de Educación. Viña del mar, Chile, Diciembre de 2007.

Aktuelle Internet-Anwendungen, kurz „Web_2.0“ genannt, bieten neue, attraktive und interaktive Möglichkeiten, verbunden mit minimalem technischen Aufwand bei der Nutzung:
In boomenden virtuellen „social networks“ wie ‘StudiVZ’, ‘SchülerVZ’, ‘Lokalisten’, ‘MySpace’ u.v.m. veröffentlichen sich über Profilseiten Menschen jeden Alters – von Kindern bis zu Senioren, schließen sich zahllosen Themengruppen an. So entstehen neuartige Chancen der Präsentation, Kontaktaufnahme und des Spielens mit der eigenen Identität. Die Utopie aus den Kindertagen des Radios, dass aus bloßen ‘Empfängern’ von Massenmedien künftig Jederman/-frau auch ‘Sender’ werden solle (Enzensberger, Brecht), ist Gegenwart und Chance geworden.

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The site also provides information on safer internet and contains an overview of all the relevant organisations where parents and children can find help should they need this. The site has a q&a section and young people can also send in their question through e-mail in case they can’t find the answer in the q&a section.

Mediacampaign
The Dutch Hotline is now working on a media campaign around the website www.helpwanted.nl. Part of the campaign will be a commercial for national television, posters, flyers and factsheets. The kick off will be in June this year during a symposium regarding ‘grooming’.
Various websites for youngsters support already the initiative of www.helpwanted.nl and carry a banner on their website.

The Gambling Commission is a Belgian government body. It has a key role in the gambling goings-on and is also competent for the protection of the gamblers and thus also for everything that has to do with gambling addiction. This contribution to the SID will limit itself to the concern for the excessive offer of unsafe and unfair gambling sites to which under-aged people are also bluntly confronted.

Everybody knows that a lot of gambling sites, just as erotic sites, are in the hands of criminal organisations. They accumulate their earnings from tax havens. For them only one thing counts : to earn as much money as possible in a minimum of time. With bright colours, the sound of monies falling, dollar- and euro signs and staggering prizes, they drag gamblers along with them to a world of dreams. Nobody however controls the honesty of their games. It is obvious that the payback rates of the “teasers” – the free games they offer – is much higher than that of the paying games. This is pure deception. Moreover, nobody knows what happens with the personal and identification data of the clients and the information of their payment cards, and even less if an age control of the participants is performed. Also, no information on gambling addiction is to be found on these sites.

Online gambling is an international reality which must be dealt with at that same level. The different national authorities must work with the European Union on this issue and develop a common policy. The sector also will have to take up its responsibilities. This is the only way guarantees can be ensured for a safe and acceptable gambling offer.

A socially responsible online gambling offer is what WE make of it. Online gambling as a pleasant recreation is what YOU make of it.

David Matthys
The Gaming Commission
Kantersteen 47
1000 Brussels
Belgium
Tel: 02/504.00.49.
E-mail: david.matthys@just.fgov.be
www.gamingcommission.fgov.be

E-Enfance a aussi pour vocation de sensibiliser les parents sur les risques d’internet et de les conseiller dans leur rôle de « cyberparent ».

Les actions d’E-Enfance

- informer et conseiller les parents et les enfants via son site www.e-enfance.org
- répondre aux inquiétudes des parents via un blog interactif www.e-enfance.org/blog qui leur permet de partager leurs témoignages et leurs expériences
- mettre en place des campagnes de sensibilisation (affiches, presse, spots TV et radio)

- réaliser 3 fois par an des tests comparatifs sur la qualité des logiciels de contrôle parental des Fournisseurs d’Accès à Internet en liaison avec le Ministère des Affaires Sociales et le Ministère de l'Education Nationale.
- développer des outils pédagogiques adaptés : création d’un DVD d’information pour les parents et les enfants : Enfants, ados : l’internet sans danger, conçu comme une émission de télévision, animé par Valérie Payet, avec la participation bénévole de Yannick Noah et Hélène Ségara (exemples positifs et négatifs sur internet, témoignages croisés parents-enfants, comment éviter les pièges, jeu interactif pour tester ses connaissances, bonus avec la campagne Famille en Ligne du Ministère de la Famille).

L’association E-Enfance développe des partenariats avec les entreprises qui souhaitent sécuriser l’accès à leurs services auprès des mineurs, ou pour lesquelles la protection de la famille est un axe majeur de leur politique de développement durable. Elle participe, avec les entreprises de télécommunication, à l’amélioration des logiciels de contrôle parental.

Enfin, E-Enfance collabore avec les pouvoirs publics : Délégation aux Usages de l’Internet, Ministère de l’Education Nationale et Ministère des Affaires Sociales.

Contacter l'association : info@e-enfance.org

DVD "Enfants, Ados : l'Internet sans danger" édité par l'association e-enfance

Ce DVD d’information est un outil pédagogique pour les parents et les enfants : Enfants, ados : l’internet sans danger, conçu comme une émission de télévision, animé par Valérie Payet, avec la participation bénévole de Yannick Noah et Hélène Ségara (exemples positifs et négatifs sur internet, témoignages croisés parents-enfants, comment éviter les pièges, jeu interactif pour tester ses connaissances, bonus avec la campagne Famille en Ligne du Ministère de la Famille).

Internet-Abzocke

Tausende ÖsterreicherInnen sind in den vergangenen Monaten Opfer von vermeintlichen „Gratis“-Angeboten im Internet geworden – davon vermutlich mehr als die Hälfte Jugendliche. Nach Einschätzung der Eltern kann nur die Hälfte der Kinder kompetent mit riskanten Situationen im Internet umgehen. Dementsprechend groß ist der Informationsbedarf. Grundsätzliches Problembewusstsein und aktuelle Informationen für alle Beteiligten sind entscheidend, da laufend neue Dienste und Technologien zur Verfügung stehen.
Das Unterrichtsmaterial „Internet-Abzocke – „Gratis“-Angebote im Internet unterstützt Lehrende ganz konkret, dieses aktuelle Konsumentenschutz-Thema in den Unterricht einzubringen.

Die Lernziele des Unterrichtsmaterials sind:
• Sensibilisierung für das Problemfeld „Gratis“-Angebote im Internet
• Internetabzocke-Fallen erkennen
• Rechte und Pflichten bei Abzockseiten kennen
• Auf Zahlungsaufforderungen richtig reagieren

Der Unterrichtsbehelf wurde auf Initiative von Saferinternet.at, Internet Ombudsmann und erfahrenen Lehrenden mit Unterstützung des Bundesministeriums für Soziales und Konsumentenschutz hergestellt.
Das gesamte Material "Internetabzocke: "Gratis"-Angebote im Internet" können Sie auf www.saferinternet.at/unterrichtsmaterialien downloaden. Weitere Unterlagen für den Unterricht und Informationen zum Thema sichere Internet- und Handynutzung finden Sie auf www.saferinternet.at.