Internet Safety:Some Context

Anne CollierCo-Director

ConnectSafely.org

Web 1.0…

Now, on Web 2.0...

--Michael Kinsley, Slate.com, 11/27/06

“...everybody knows you’re a dog.”

Task force report to US Congress in June ‘10:“Youth Safety on a Living Internet”

A living Internet

HuffingtonPost.com

Content is social now

Pat Gaines

Very individual

Ben Heine

Internet use is fluid

Tom Olliver

…and everywhere

Ben Heine

Embedded in ‘real life’

Risk spectrum reflects life too

Marc Dezemery

Camila Vallejo• Led “regular protest

marches of 200,000” in Santiago

• Lent her “star power” to movement in Brazil.

• European students demonstrated in support of Latin American students

• Tapped to run for Congress in Chile

Filtering as ‘knee-high fence’

Peter Liu Photography

Online Safety 3.0 needed• Research-based, not fear-based, so relevant• Flexible, layered – not one-size-fits-all• Respectful of youth agency – stakeholders in making

it good, not just potential victims• Positive, empowering: Not just safety from (bad

outcomes) but safety for...• Young people’s educated, constructive engagement

in today’s (highly participatory) media