All Blog Posts Tagged 'child' (9)

We are doing a final push for Russian-speaking professionals who have a

specific background and/or interest in children's issues. This Fellow will be considered for a position at the International Centre

for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC), the leading global service

agency working to protect the world’s children from international

child abduction and sexual exploitation. ICMEC works to identify and coordinate a global network of organizations fighting… Continue

This report is the result of a team effort by Sokol Haxiu and Alexandra Vasile.



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I’m not sure exactly if readers know what the Dynamic Coalition for child safety online is, so I will provide a succint defintion based on the one presented in the meeting itself. According to its members, the

DC on child safety online is a group of individuals who, during the IGF, come

together to look at issues related to online safety for children.

Although many questions were raised in the…

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After sitting in on the Commonwealth Regional Network meeting on child safety, I think there were two issues which kept arising in the conversation: access as a whole and the need for more specific legislation

about child safety online.

First of all, the topic of access was mentioned by participants from various Commonwealth states, but especially by the speaker representing West Africa, who made some…

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The workshop provided a very useful introduction as to what constitutes “digital citizenship” , how the internet can be used in order to educate children about what a good citizen is and also what acceptable online

behavior is. The speakers seemed to agree on the fact that digital citizenship

is an emerging field that needs more attention and research. Also, the message

that was prevalent throughout the meeting was that citizenship education needs

to be…

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John Carr (eNACSO) made a really good point about how today’s challenges reagarding child safety are not the same problems that we were facing a couple of years ago. Now, children unfortunately give away much too

much about their whereabouts, by constantly posting comments on social newtworking

sites such as Twitter and Facebook. Carr pointed out that some children who are

now on Facebook have close to 5000 friends. Obviously, only a handful of those

are…

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Joseph -- community and market proof of age...it should be a debate in the social networking community...

People - Processes and Technology together.



Thomas -- sweden -- Government -- self regulation -- industry -- then regulation ... Privacy settings... trust the services



Search Engines -- are there for Adults and kids



Walled gardens -- for Kids -- safe environments for young childrens , labeling systems -- may enable Censorship



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This has been one of the most grave topics that needs a greater voice in the online world. Unlike other issues where there is only sustained impact of IG in our day today life this topic has greater impact in invasion of our privacy and with serious implications. The topic was moderated by Hindenburgo a classmate at IGCBP Class B.



Child abuse and child pornography is a key issue that needs wider addressal as it is of paramount importance to protect our children. The panel had key… Continue