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June/July 2010 
| Editorial | Issue 52 – June/July 2010 | Welcome to the 52nd issue of the Insafe newsletter. This month we take a look at the importance of the voice of the youth in considering our approaches to internet safety.
Increasingly, young people live their lives online. The challenge, therefore, is to provide them with appropriate information about the opportunities and risks they might encounter in a manner they can relate to. Factors such as the tone and dialogue, the scenarios used, the soundtrack and the delivery of awareness materials will all have an impact on how credible they are to this audience. What better way to ensure that online safety materials meet the needs of young people, than by involving youngsters in their creation!
Youth panels are an important asset to our National Awareness Centres. In this issue we explore several projects which have involved youth panels, from the summer camp in Romania (see the Insafe blog) and digital storytelling in Denmark and Finland, to peer support projects in Germany, creating social gaming tips for young online gamers in Austria, and developing educational online games in France. | | 
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| Focus | | In June 2010, 11 young people between from the Austrian youth panel came together to discuss internet safety issues. Topics under discussion included Facebook, saving peers from difficult situations, fraudulent web services, cyberbullying, apps and copyright issues. Gaming has become a popular feature of social networks. To ensure that young people stay safe, and don't waste their time and money online, the Austrian Awareness Centre, along with their advisory youth panel, has compiled a list of tips for young gamers. It is very important to involve children in discussions about threats on the internet, but while we often find that children are familiar with the principles of online safety, they don't always put these into practice. This can cause problems. The issues were explored during a recent conference titled ‘Prevention of internet crime – and Czech children as victims. Children's voices for the first time in Senate'. "Think before you tag and hack!" "Be with others like you would want them to be with you – in real life and also online!" These are some of the messages that the Danish youth panel voiced to other young people in their digital stories, presented on Safer Internet Day 2010. In autumn 2009, the Finnish Awareness Centre started to review their ‘Smart on the Web' materials. Feedback had indicated that the materials, which were used by safer internet trainers with 13-16 year old pupils, were a bit too childish and didn't meet the pupils' needs for online safety education. The youth panel assisted the awareness centre in the update process.[France] Creating resources for young people, by young people In France, the youth panel plays a key role in the creation of awareness tools. This year, the panel has been mainly working on the creation of four episodes of the 2025 exmachina educational game, which aims to develop critical thinking skills and promote responsible online behaviour. As with other Awareness Centres all over Europe, klicksafe has established a youth panel – a group of teenagers between 14 and 16 years old, who meet regularly with klicksafe staff members. They give valuable input on how young people see the internet, what they do there, and what opportunities and risks they find. They also provide peer-to-peer support services. In December 2009, staff at the Italian Safer Internet Centre started to plan their work with the youth panel for the following year. The panellists had clearly expressed the wish to be more involved in the activities of the centre and to better understand how the centre works. Safer Internet Day 2010 provided a key focus for youth panel involvement and activity. | | | | 
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| Campaigns | | In June 2010, the Polish Safer Internet Centre (Nobody's Children Foundation, NASK), with the support of the Children's Ombudsman and the Polish National Police, launched the new edition of the ‘Child on the Web' social campaign under the slogan ‘Every move online leaves a trace…'. | |
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| Events and competitions | | The Polish and German Safer Internet Centres invite you to attend the 4th International Conference ‘Keeping Children and Young People Safe Online'. The conference will take place at the Novotel Airport Hotel in Warsaw, on 28-29 September 2010. | |
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| Studies, Surveys & Reports | | For the fourth consecutive year, BRIS has published ‘The Children, BRIS and IT 2010', a report about BRIS as an actor on the internet, and about young people's contacts with BRIS regarding the internet, computers and mobile phones. In May 2010, the UK's Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) published its Annual Report 2009 reporting continued success at tackling criminal online content in the UK but revealing the existence of at least 450 distinct criminal ‘brands' selling images and videos of the sexual abuse of children, worldwide. | |
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| Online Safety in schools | | In the school year 2009/2010, the Slovenian Awareness Centre SAFE-SI carried out a nationwide competition for children and teenagers from 6 to 15 years old. The competition was a big success. In total, 79 schools participated (representing a fifth of schools in Slovenia), submitting over 400 contributions created by 900 pupils under the mentorship of 125 teachers. | |
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| 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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