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Swedish node launches new awareness campaign

The 1 November was the starting point for the Swedish national awareness campaign. “The young Internet” will run through the rest of 2005 and the whole of 2006. It consists of approximately a dozen regional training seminars aimed at educators, child professionals and parents.

The first seminar was held in Östersund and was visited by around 140 participants, most of them educators in the surrounding region.

The agenda for the training seminar includes:
• recent facts regarding children’s use of and attitudes towards Internet and other online technologies
• presentations by researchers specialised in young people’s net cultures
• presentations by representatives from the leading service providers/teen communities online
• an expert youth panel
• a range of optional workshops

The workshops deal with issues such as children-parent dialogue, ethics on the Internet, source criticism, online gaming, how to handle illegal content, how to protect your personal information, online communities. Each workshop will link to specific resources in the Safer Internet tool kit developed by the Swedish node.
 
The most recent seminar took place in Sundsvall on 1 December. During the first half of 2006 there will be five more seminars. These are already being planned. The seminars for the second half of 2006 are yet to be decided.

As a result of these regional conferences the Swedish node hope to establish a network of qualified informants and ambassadors who will be able to answer the increasing demand for information on Internet safety for children and young people.

Author: Daniel Boije, Swedish Media Council
Published: Wednesday, 7 Dec 2005
Last changed: Wednesday, 4 Jan 2006
 
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