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This year a Norwegian company called Bipper [ http://www.bipper.com – available in Norwegian and English language versions] launched a new safety solution for mobile phones for children. The solution is designed for parents who want better control of their children’s use of mobile phones. It gives parents the opportunity to identify their children’s geographical position at any time, and to monitor the in and out communication on the mobile phone. It also contains a safety alarm among other applications. From August 2010 the public can subscribe to this service, which is provided in collaboration with the telecom company Tele2. Surveillance or control? The Norwegian Awareness Centre is skeptical: there is nothing new about technology offering localisation or tracking, but when it is used in this context it challenges the children’s rights of privacy and expression. The awareness centre states: "We disapprove of the perspective this service represents, and prefer an approach where parents are encouraged to take a more positive and supportive approach towards their children’s use of digital media. We fear that technical solutions like this one will rather function as ‘sleeping pillows’, providing a sense of safety without addressing the underlying issues". The new director Bjørn Erik Thon of the Norwegian Data Inspectorate has also been negative to this solution, and calls this surveillance of children.
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Following on from the successful back to school campaign that took place in September 2009, Insafe is pleased to announce the launch of Back 2 School 2010. This year the package for teachers will comprise a lesson plan on the importance and safe use of passwords (for two different age groups), a quiz for pupils to complete and a PowerPoint presentation which outlines some of the issues surrounding online safety. As there is growing concern about online identity, password protection becomes increasingly important. In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, Google's CEO Eric Schmidt spoke about young people needing to actually change their names in the future in order to disassociate themselves from their online identity. It is important to engage children and young people in this debate now if we are to help them secure the best future for themselves. The lesson plan considers the importance of passwords and provides some useful links to help teachers deliver these messages effectively. Further information can be found at http://back2school.saferinternet.org/index.html.
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eNACSO is the European NGO Alliance for Child Safety Online. It consists of a network of 17 children’s rights NGOs from across the EU working for a safer online environment for children. The eNACSO Agenda for Action was launched in June 2010 and includes recommendations for governments, industry and other stakeholders on how to create a safer environment for children and young people. One of the report’s key actions (5.8) is to engage with mobile internet providers and location services, and suggests that location-based services should be classified as an adult service. When discussing new types of location services and tracking technologies which are now emerging in the consumer market, the report states that these ‘pose challenges not only in the field of online safety for children and young people, but also in relation to the civil and privacy rights of all citizens’. The report goes on to recommend that strong safeguards must be developed to govern the use of such services. The Agenda for Action can be downloaded from the eNACSO website [http://www.enacso.eu/images/stories/Documents/manifesto/afafinal6may.pdf].
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 Safer Internet Day is organised by Insafe in February each year to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially amongst children and young people across the world.
The topic for 2011 is "our virtual lives" with the slogan "It's more than a game, it's your life". Further information will be added to the Safer Internet Day website [ www.saferinternetday.org] in the coming weeks and months. |
Polish (Nobody’s Children Foundation and NASK) and German (klicksafe.de) Safer Internet Centres are holding the 4th International Keeping Children and Young People Safe Online Conference. The conference aims to raise awareness of the new challenges and opportunities in fighting online threats and to help share best practices across different sectors. The conference will bring together approximately 500 representatives from the education sector, NGOs, law enforcement, government and industry. It will address a wide variety of issues relating to children and young people’s safety online, such as the use of social networking sites and mobile phones, privacy, sexting, online gaming and educational strategies. Sessions will be led by recognised international experts in the field of child protection. We hope to bring you a review of the event in the next edition of the Insafe newsletter.
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 Six holiday resorts, around 4,000 young participants, open air cinema, hip hop concerts, games and quizzes on internet safety, and many more attractions…this was the essence of the fifth edition of the Polish summer educational tour “Sieciaki on Holidays”.
“Sieciaki on Holidays” is an educational campaign run by Nobody’s Children Foundation in cooperation with Orange Foundation. Running since 2006, the campaign consists of a team of young animators travelling around Poland organising outdoor ‘picnics’ on internet safety in the most popular holiday destinations. Around 19,000 youngsters have taken part since the campaign first began. The main goal of the campaign is to teach children, through games and other fun outdoor activities, how to be safe online, what to do when they encounter dangerous content on the internet, and where to seek help if they experience internet-related problems. The idea of the Sieciaki tour links to the Sieciaki.pl educational resource [ www.sieciaki.pl], within which four Sieciaki – or webwise children – teach young internet users how to stay safe online. Each ‘picnic’ lasts for approximately four hours. This year, children were able to participate in many activities in three huge, colourful tents.  The first of the three tents served as a large open-air cinema (SiecioKino) screening internet safety cartoons and short movies for children, followed by facilitated discussion about their content. The second tent hosted an internet café, with wireless internet connectivity. The purpose of this area was to provide a ‘Mega Safety Centre’, giving the picnic’s participants an opportunity to test and extend their knowledge on internet safety by participating in courses, quizzes and games. Participants were also able to explore various safe websites for children, which have previously been developed as part of the Sieciaki project.  The third tent hosted the Sieciaki Entertainment Centre, with colouring books depicting scenes and situations that children may encounter online, as well as puzzles on internet safety issues. By taking part in activities, children were able to collect “bytes” which could later be exchanged for prizes, such as comic books, games, computer accessories or antivirus software.
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