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Insafe Newsletter
Issue 36: June 2008 |
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Welcome to the Insafe Newsletter!
What is Web 2.0?
There is some controversy as to what Web 2.0 means, if it is indeed anything more than a buzz-word. However, for our purposes we can distinguish a number of features that distinguish it from the “traditional” web...
Web 2.0, a phrase coined by O'Reilly Media in 2004, refers to a perceived second-generation of Web-based services - such as social networking sites, wikis, communication tools, and folksonomies - that emphasise online collaboration and sharing among users.
Web 2.0 websites allow users to do more than just retrieve information. They can build on the interactive facilities of "Web 1.0" to provide "Network as platform" computing, which allows users to run software-applications entirely through a browser. Users can own the data on a Web 2.0 site and exercise control over that data. These sites may have an "Architecture of participation" that encourages users to add value to the application as they use it. This offers huge advantages on traditional websites, which limit visitors to viewing and whose content only the site's owner can modify. Web 2.0 sites often feature a rich, user-friendly interface based on Ajax, Flex or similar rich media. The sites may also have social-networking aspects.
Web 2.0 recognises the change from a static to a truly interactive platform. Instead of simply downloading and consuming, users are now able to upload and create. Media is truly converged and no longer separate...
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 Teens & ICT: risks and opportunities (TIRO)
- new research by Belgian universitiesIs your teenager a forager, tribal blogger, ex-time blogster or Net babbler?
Should you be worried if you have a free rider of the Chat, a club member, a player mercenary or a DOFUS fanatic?
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Freedom and Responsibility“Fears over pro-suicide web pages”
“Miss Bimbo website promotes extreme diets and surgery to 9-year-olds”
Does the safety of individuals conflict with personal liberty and freedom of information? This is a core question that internet safety awareness raisers frequently have to address. Read more Social workers on the internet
As young people today are as likely to hang out on the internet as on the street corner and as fieldworkers should be where their clients are, it's obvious that they need to be online, too. That is why the Swedish youth center Fryshuset has now got its own “web coaches”.
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Austrian node offers e-learning courses on safe web 2.0 use
Saferinternet.at supports teachers with online further education courses and a new teachers' handbook
The Austrian node Saferinternet.at is delivering e-learning courses for teachers this summer, as part of a school focus on web 2.0 safety issues. Read more
 EASY drums up support for new campaign against unsafe websites
EASY will be using their Rome workshop on July 8th at the European Parliament Italian Representation to find support for their “Comunicari sicuri” campaign. Adiconsum with “Cittadini di Internet”, another Italian consumers association, will present their new awareness raising campaign to the public institutions and authorities, industry and child welfare organisations. Read more
 Cyber crime growing says European Commission Report
Crime, in particular related to credit cards and identity theft is a very much present part of the cyber landscape. In the United Kingdom alone credit card fraud accounted for GBP 428m losses in 2006 (approximately 90 euros lost per man, woman and child) (www.apacs.org.uk).
Of this, over half stems from card-not-present fraud. If this sum were evenly defrauded throughout the European Union, the criminals would be getting away with 44 138 345 400 euros. Read more
 Concerted EU efforts are needed to avoid a ‘digital 9/11’ and combat cyber threatsWith the publication of its Annual General Report, ENISA, the EU Agency for European Network and Information Security, highlighted key online security issues in Europe, showcasing how it helps to counter cyber attacks, spam and risks associated with online social networking. The Agency has already issued a position paper aimed at corporate and political decision-makers as well as Social Network application-providers: "Security Issues and Recommendations for Online Social Networks".
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Suicide pact through an internet forum
Three young French people, one man and two women aged between 18 and 23 were saved at the last minute after a failed suicide pact and all ended up in hospital. They had never met in real life before and planned their collective act through an internet forum. They came together on Wednesday 21 May in a deserted part of the forest of Mormal, northern France where they adapted their car to suffocate them after taking tablets. One girl changed her mind part way through and hitched a ride to hospital and the other two were found unconscious in the morning by forestry workers. Read more
 Spain: wide net cast against child pornography
Insafe node PROTEGELES' tips contributed to one of the largest police operations in Spain against child abuse images on the Internet with the arrests of 55 people and the seizing of 179 hard drives, 19 laptops, 17 computers and 2,500 external storage devices.
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 The European e-Skills 2008 Conference
9 and 10 October 2008 in Thessaloniki
The conference is organised by the European Commission and CEDEFOP in partnership with the e-Skills Industry Leadership Board. It will bring together experts from government, ICT industry, social partners, academia and other stakeholders. The conference will present and discuss best practices, flagship projects and report on progress. Participation at the conference is free of charge but by invitation only. Read more
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 Addressing Web 2.0 in Curriculum
i-SAFE e-Safety curriculum evolves as the Internet evolves, providing revised and updated materials whenever necessary. This article explores ways i-SAFE Inc. can help teachers integrate learning about Web 2.0 safety and responsibility into regular classroom activities.
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Protecting Children on the Internet
Protecting children on the internet is no more difficult than protecting them in a school setting.
We've built our own website for our students and it was successful enough to open further to other private schools of the same mindset to protect students while teaching them about online technologies, while online.
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Insafe is a European network of 23 nodes in 23 countries that are dedicated to raising awareness of internet safety. It is coordinated by the European Schoolnet and supported by the European Commission through the Safer Internet Programme.
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