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February 2012  | | Editorial | Issue 68 - February 2012 | Welcome to the 68th edition of the Insafe newsletter, as we celebrate Safer Internet Day (SID) across Europe and the world over. Now in its ninth edition, Safer Internet Day has become a landmark event in the online safety calendar. This year’s Safer Internet Day is centred on the theme "Connecting generations and educating each other", where we encourage users young and old to "discover the digital world together...safely!”.
In this edition of the newsletter we showcase just a few of the many exciting activities which will be taking place to mark Safer Internet Day and raise awareness of online safety issues, from a Parliamentary presence in Austria, to a playwriting competition in Bulgaria, and a new edugame in France. We also hear about the focus on youth panels in Spain, and the marathon 12-hour radio show in the UK.
Head on over to the Safer Internet Day website to find out more. Be sure to check out the 'SID near you' section to find out what's happening to celebrate SID around the globe. Also on the site, you'll find a range of great resources to help you mark the day, from our new SID 2012 video spot and SID overview video, to the SID kit for schools, to a downloadable certificate of participation.
And don't forget to check out our great SID competitions too, where children and young people could be in with a chance of winning great games courtesy of Microsoft or, for older participants, a trip to the 'online safety' summer camp in Romania later in the year!
We wish you every success in your own Safer Internet Day activities, whatever you are planning. We'll be back in early March with a roundup of the day.
We hope you enjoy this edition of the Insafe newsletter. If you would like to contribute an article for a forthcoming issue of the newsletter, or the Insafe blog, please contact the Insafe team. And if you’ve found this newsletter useful, why not forward it on to a friend or colleague and encourage them to subscribe too? Subscribe via the newsletter page on the Insafe website.
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|  |  | | Focus…Safer Internet Day 2012 | | To discover the digital world together and safely, Saferinternet.at, along with partners, has prepared a handful of events and resources for all generations. Online safety activities with a focus on intergenerational dialogue will continue all through the month of February. That´s why it's called the ‘Safer Internet Month of Activity’! On the eve of Safer Internet Day (SID), 6 February 2012, Child Focus will host an eSafety night: a red carpet event for an intergenerational audience. Partners, teenagers and VIPs will attend this event with their families: children, parents and grandparents. The eSafety night is an awards ceremony that will award two initiatives taken by young people. The first prize will recognise the best online content created by or for young people. The second prize will be awarded to the best eSafety spot designed by students at film schools (higher education) for younger teenagers. The focus of Safer Internet Day (SID) 2012 in Bulgaria is a playwriting competition for students with the topic ‘Together in internet’, dedicated to the theme of SID 2012 ‘Connecting generations: Discovering the digital world together…safely!’. The competition was launched on 1 December 2011 and was designed to give school children the opportunity to work together with peers and adults to create a scenario for a short play of 15 minutes in length. This year, the dialogue between generations is the main theme of Safer Internet Day (SID). Of course, children and young people are at the centre of the campaign… but what about the other generations? That’s simple: Who has time enough to play with children? Who has real authority? Last but not least, who is talking online with children? Of course – grandma and grandad! That is why the Czech National Awareness Centre (NAC) decided to address seniors as partners in its dialogue with children this year. Created by the French Awareness Centre – Internet Sans Crainte - to promote Safer Internet Day, the new Vinz et Lou game will be at the centre of hundreds of awareness workshops run by teachers and educators to celebrate the event all over the country in February. Called "Discover internet together", the online game is designed both to help children identify crucial issues related to their practices and encourage them to speak to adults, and to learn with them how to use this media in a responsible and critical way. On Safer Internet Day 2012, the Luxembourg Safer Internet Centre (SIC), BEE SECURE, has chosen to communicate around information security in an interactive, network-centered way. Two public conferences and a panel discussion involving specialists and citizens of mixed generations will be streamed live to the net, allowing citizens from all over the country to participate in the event. The public will have the opportunity to ask questions to the speakers using social networks such as Twitter and Facebook. Safer Internet Day in Slovakia will take place in schools, with a presentation to children, teachers, parents and the media. The main focus is on the launch of four new animated stories which were published on the Sheeplive.eu website shortly before Christmas. These stories are available not only in the Slovak language, but also in German, Slovenian, Polish and Estonian. New Croatian versions are coming soon. The new Spanish Safer Internet Centre (SIC) is running various events to celebrate Safer Internet Day 2012. The main event will be the Young People’s Congress which will bring together 16 youth panels, formed from 240 girls and boys from across Spain, under the theme of 'Connecting generations'. These young panelists will be accompanied by more than 300 of their schoolmates in order to spread the word and increase participation in celebrations of Safer Internet Day 2012 among the student community. In celebration of Safer Internet Day - 7 February 2012 - the UK Safer Internet Centre (SIC) is again running a 12-hour internet radio marathon. The theme for the radio day will be ‘Connecting generations’, under the slogan ‘Discovering the digital world together safely!’. Last year, tens of thousands of listeners tuned in to the programme and it is hoped that this number will be exceeded this year. | |
|  |  | | Campaigns, training and resources | | The vast majority of new connections to the internet are via mobile devices (approx 300 million in 2010). INHOPE has created 'INHOPE mobile' to enable these users to report illegal content (including Child Sexual Abuse Material) via their mobile devices while online. In this article, Kalev Pihl, a father of three, lecturer at an Estonian IT College, Member of the Advisory Board of the Safer Internet Centre in Estonia and CIO of the Certification Centre, shares his views on using research findings… “In promoting the EU Kids Online results, it is often hard to nail the data so that it would matter for the local community and individual parent. For a long time, I have searched for a way to make the statistics relevant in classes and parent meetings. Now, I think I have found a way!". At Insafe, we are always happy to hear of the work of third countries (i.e. those outside of the Insafe network of the 27 EU member states plus Iceland, Norway and Russia) in terms of their online safety actions. Here, we learn about a new safer internet service in Turkey... Ahead of Safer Internet Day 2012, SID Supporter and online teacher community www.PrometheanPlanet.com is helping to spread the message about eSafety and raise awareness of cyberbullying through education. In line with the theme of SID 2012, Promethean Planet has gathered together a range of free teaching and learning resources to connect generations and help students and teachers alike use and enjoy technology safely. |
| | | | Events and competitions | | This year, as part of Safer Internet Day celebrations, there are two competitions for the younger generation: a poster competition and a video competition…although in the spirit of the Safer Internet Day 2012 theme of ‘Connecting generations’, other members of the school or family are welcome to get involved too! Entries can be made online from 1-29 February 2012 inclusive, and are welcome from across the globe. Find out more on the Safer Internet Day website. Linking with this year’s Safer Internet Day theme, the Insafe network has the pleasure of inviting you to its First International Conference: 'Promoting internet safety globally: Connecting generations', to be held 15-16 May 2012 in Cyprus. Save the date in your diary now. Partners of the ROBERT project and the Expert Group for Cooperation on Children at Risk (EGCC), within the Council of the Baltic Sea States, have the pleasure of inviting you to the conference: Risk-taking online behaviour – Young people, harm and resilience, to be held 23-24 May 2012 in Berlin. |
| | | | Studies, surveys and reports | | A summary report and session reports from the Safer Internet Forum 2011 has recently been published, which focused on the topic: 'Every European Child Digital Safely: Emerging Challenges and Youth Engagement'. |
| | | Insafe is a European network of awareness centres promoting safe, responsible use of the internet and mobile devices to young people. It is co-funded by the Safer Internet Programme. Would you like to contribute an article for this newsletter or the Insafe blog? If so, please contact the Insafe team. |
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