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Issue 15:May 2006, Search |
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Editorial • News • Events • Country Focus • About Insafe |
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| Welcome to the May edition of the Insafe Newsletter!
 There are billions of pages available in the World Wide Web and websites appear and disappear every day. You can find information on virtually every subject under the sun - but there are no quality guarantees. This means that alongside valuable, helpful information and good quality entertainment there is also a great deal of dubious, or even criminal, content that is dangerous to minors.
Searching the internet is often too challenging for children and adolescents: a spelling mistake in the name of an internet address or losing track of the large number of search engine results can quickly lead them to problematic or illegal websites and images.
This is why the German awareness node group klicksafe.de believes it is especially important to improve the expertise of parents, teachers and young people in searching the WWW. At klicksafe.de you can find practical assistance to help you recognise and avoid risks quicker when searching online.
For example, www.klicksafe.de offers "12 Golden Rules for Search Engines", internet tips for parents and children and a teaching handbook for teachers. You can also order printed versions of all the listed material. In addition, www.klicksafe.de provides the "Klick-Tipps" service (click tips), which offers well-researched, safe and interesting links to exciting topics for parents and children every week.
However, parents are not the only group being challenged to protect children and young people from frightening or detrimental content. The providers of websites and search engines must also face up to their responsibilities. A first step towards this has already been signalled in Germany. Well-known operators have started a self-regulation programme for search engine providers. The goal is to improve consumer protection as well as protection of minors on the internet.
Author: Peter Behrens, klicksafe.de
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Polish Awareness Node report on the dangers of meeting friends online
The online research agency Gemius’s research conducted on behalf of Nobody’s Children Foundation shows that Polish children and adolescents are meeting friends they met online increasingly often – despite awareness of the dangers this may entail.
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Internet social habits of young Finns
Internet’s varied environments and the human interaction within them create new kinds of communities not entirely different from the ones we know in the “real world”. The internet eliminates distance, which can greatly impact how people socialise as physical barriers disappear.
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New Microsoft Digital Literacy Curriculum
It's easy to use a computer safely and responsibly if you know how. Microsoft’s new Digital Literacy Curriculum builds confidence in computing by exploring security and privacy issues so that you can understand the risks and prevent them.
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Self-regulation of search engines in Germany
As search engines constantly develop and grow more popular, the need to protect minors also increases. Because of this, well-known providers in Germany have founded a group for self-regulating search engines called: Voluntary Self-Monitoring of Multimedia (Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle Multimedia - FSM).
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New Dutch campaign on internet safety
Eleven public and private parties in the Netherlands have joined forces to promote safe use of digital tools. They initiated the new campaign ‘Digibewust’ (digitally aware).
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More students become safer internet role-models
Since Safer Internet Day 2006 a Danish 6th grade has worked with web ethics being Denmark’s first official Safer Internet Ambassadors. On 2 May 2006 they presented their work as part of a national event on internet safety.
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NetAlert Australian CyberSafe School Awards for Excellence
A new awards program has been established by NetAlert to recognise outstanding internet safety programs developed by schools in Australia.
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National Campaign on internet safety embraces Denmark
On May 2, 2006 the annual campaign Netsafe Now! was launched. Throughout the day public authorities and institutions as well as private businesses and organisations hosted a number of events in the name of a safer internet.
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| Events |
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"Whose Internet?" International conference
18 & 19 May 2006
Helsinki, Finland
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Safer Internet Forum
21 June 2006
Luxembourg
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| Country Focus: Germany |
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Surf where it's good! "Klick-Tipps" for children
Harry Potter, Mozart or the World Cup – the internet offers a cornucopia of interesting topics for children. The new "Klick-Tipps" service helps you to search for interesting, topical websites, suitable for children.
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Children Around the Net
Jan is nine years old and a football fan – eight-year old Clara would like to find out all about dinosaurs. Where can they find ultimate information on these subjects? On the internet, of course! Can parents allow their offspring to search and browse the net without worrying though?
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About Insafe
Insafe is a European network of 23 nodes in 21 countries, dedicated to raising awareness of internet safety. The network includes a broad range of organisations, including charities, universities and media councils.
The Insafe network is coordinated by European Schoolnet, and supported by the European Commission’s Safer Internet Programme.
Further information about the Insafe network and its members is available on the Insafe portal. |
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