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Online safety for 2022: 8 things we need to see

December 28, 2021 By Anne 2 Comments

What a year it has been for child online safety, right?! There was the adoption of General Comment 25, bringing all things digital into the global Convention on the Rights of the Child; the draft Online Safety Bill and Parliament’s response in the UK; the release of Australia’s eSafety Commissioner’s Safety by Design for the tech industry and investors; the Age Appropriate Design Code coming into … [Read more...] about Online safety for 2022: 8 things we need to see

Filed Under: adolescent development, Law & Policy, Research, Risk & Safety, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: #DigitalDecade4YOUth, #GoodforMedia, Adam Mosseri, Age Appropriate Design Code, AI for Children, All Tech Is Human, Berkman Klein Center, Better Internet for Kids, C2PA, CRC, eSafety, European Commission, Facebook, Frances Haugen, Harvard University, Headstream, HX, Insafe, Instagram, Integrity Institute, Jeff Allen, Meta, metaverse, Netsafe, Online Safety Bill, People Make Games, Rebooting Social Media, Richard Blumenthal, Roblox, Safety by Design, Sahar Massachi, Sophie Zhang, Stanford University, systems thinking, Technology Coalition, Telosity, Trust and Safety Professionals Association, UN Convention, UNCRC, UX, Western Sydney University, whistleblower, Young and Resilient Research Center

Safer Internet Day 2014: The global safety collaborative

February 7, 2014 By Anne 1 Comment

What do a high school student who's a bullying prevention activist, two criminology professors and Safer Internet Day (February 11) have in common? They're all sending the same message that safety and wellbeing online takes all of us. The student Aidan McDaniel the student activist says school safety happens from the ground (the students) up. Social cruelty both online and offline isn't a … [Read more...] about Safer Internet Day 2014: The global safety collaborative

Filed Under: Risk & Safety, Social Media Tagged With: #SID2014, Aidan McDaniel, ConnectSafely, European Commission, Insafe Network, Janet Napolitano, Justin Patchin, Neelie Kroes, Safer Internet Day, Sameer Hinduja

Europe’s new coalition for a better Net for kids

December 2, 2011 By Anne 1 Comment

European children "now start going online when they are seven, and 38% of 9-to-12-year-olds who are online say they have a social networking profile, in spite of age restrictions," the European Commission reports. So it has formed "a new Coalition to make a better and safer internet for children" as part of its Digital Agenda for Europe, the Commission announced this week. The coalition's 28 … [Read more...] about Europe’s new coalition for a better Net for kids

Filed Under: Law & Policy, Risk & Safety Tagged With: Apple, Coalition to make a better and safer internet for children, European Commission, Facebook, Google, Internet safety in Europe, Microsoft, Nokia, online safety, Orange, safe social networking, Samsung, Sulake, Vodafone

Europe getting tougher on social sites?

March 25, 2011 By Anne Leave a Comment

It looks like the European Commission will be adding teeth to its interaction with social media companies such as Facebook, whether or not they're headquartered in Europe. In a speech to the European Parliament, the EU justice commissioner, Viviane Reding, warned that "a US-based social network company that has millions of active users in Europe needs to comply with EU rules," according to The … [Read more...] about Europe getting tougher on social sites?

Filed Under: Law & Policy Tagged With: Digital Agenda, European Commission, John Carr, Neelie Kroes, Robert Madelin, social networking, Viviane Reding

UN Child Rights Convention: How about online rights?!

November 25, 2009 By Anne 3 Comments

This past week, "the world celebrated the 20th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) – the most universally ratified human rights treaty," the European Commission reports. It adds that "the Convention is the first international legally binding instrument establishing minimum standards for the protection and safeguarding of a full range of civil, political, social, … [Read more...] about UN Child Rights Convention: How about online rights?!

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Online Safety 3.0, Risk & Safety Tagged With: Amnesty International, Derek Wyatt, European Commission, FOSI, Obama family, Safer Internet, UN Child Rights Convention, UNICEF

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Our (DIGITAL) PARENTING BASICS: Safety + Social
NAMLE, the National Association for Media Literacy Education
CASEL.org & the 5 core social-emotional competencies of SEL
Center for Democracy & Technology
Center for Innovative Public Health Research
Childnet International
Committee for Children
Congressional Internet Caucus Academy
ConnectSafely.org
Control Shift: a pivotal book for Internet safety
Crimes Against Children Research Center
Crisis Textline
Cyber Civil Rights Initiative's Revenge Porn Crisis Line
Cyberwise.org
danah boyd's blog and book about networked youth
Disconnected, Carrie James's book on digital ethics
FOSI.org's Good Digital Parenting
The research of Global Kids Online
The Good Project at Harvard's School of Education
If you watch nothing else: "Parenting in a Digital Age" TED Talk by Prof. Sonia Livingstone
The International Bullying Prevention Association
Let Grow Foundation
Making Caring Common
Raising Digital Natives, author Devorah Heitner's site
Renee Hobbs at the Media Education Lab
MediaSmarts.ca
The New Media Literacies
Report of the Aspen Task Force on Learning & the Internet and our guide to Creating Trusted Learning Environments
The Ruler Approach to social-emotional learning (Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence)
Sources of Strength
"Young & Online: Perspectives on life in a digital age" from young people in 26 countries (via UNICEF)
"Youth Safety on a Living Internet": 2010 report of the Online Safety & Technology Working Group (and my post about it)

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