It’s one part of the web that can help your kids safely explore the rest. Presented by Bill Westhead on behalf of Dr. Rachel O’Connell [email protected]

It’s one part of the web that can help your kids safely explore the

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Presented by

Bill Westheadon behalf of

Dr. Rachel O’[email protected]

Cyberspace Research UnitUniversity of Central Lancashire


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Main thinking points

Lessons learned from previous public awareness campaigns and programmes of education

Harm reduction strategies – minimise risk of harm whilst preserving freedom of speech, rights to privacy, and equal access.

New focus on well being – a more holistic and empowering approach, i.e., Cyber wellness

Trusted sources – multi-stakeholder approach www.internetsafetyzone.co.uk


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Fundamental alterations

Information saturated environment

User generated content becoming a significant part of the content and services accessible online

Hugely beneficial effects of this

Mindful of the implications


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Cyberwellness is a holistic term which encompasses not only concerns around

peoples security online but also includes considerations of people’s

psychological and emotional well being as well as the stage of development a

person has reached and a range of issues that may affect young people or

that they may encounter online.

The first Cyberwellness Task Force was set up in Singapore in 2002. The

Taskforce developed four key values that could form the basis for public

education, namely to do the following;

• Embrace the Net and Inspire Others

• Develop Astuteness,

• Practise Respect and Responsibility and

• Strike a Balance Beyond the Internet.

Cyber Wellness

Taxonomy of Risk of Harm

Categorises activities with respect to normal behaviours and also illegal behaviours.

Useful mechanism to encourage us to consider degrees of harm to different groups of end users.

Once established degrees of harm should then be possible to determine the nature of appropriate and proportionate responses


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Normal

Proscribed

Information, news, opinion,

Violations of human rights, advertising standards

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Harm


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Misuse of personal information, misinformation spam, violations of the right to privacy

Normal

Proscribed

Human Interaction

Low level and high level crime, racially motivated crime

Risk

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HarmOffence, Hate Cults, racism, xenophobia, violence


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Normal

Proscribed

Health, body, spirit

Incitement to commit suicide, murder/attempted murder

Risk

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HarmPro-ana, pro-mia, pro self-injury, pro-suicide/assisted


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Normal

Proscribed

Sex education / recreation

Low and high level sexual crimes

Risk

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HarmPornography, non-consensual, violent, racist, fetishistic


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Normal

Proscribed

Communications and activities

Injury / abuse

Risk

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HarmAggression, addiction, cyber bullying, happy slapping


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Cyberwellness is a holistic term which encompasses not only concerns around

peoples security online but also includes considerations of people’s

psychological and emotional well being as well as the stage of development a

person has reached and a range of issues that may affect young people or

that they may encounter online.

The first Cyberwellness Task Force was set up in Singapore in 2002. The

Taskforce developed four key values that could form the basis for public

education, namely to do the following;

• Embrace the Net and Inspire Others

• Develop Astuteness,

• Practise Respect and Responsibility and

• Strike a Balance Beyond the Internet.



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There are a number of online communities that are based around the subject

of self harm, and they tend to focus around a message board with or without

a main website. Generally these communities are created and maintained

by people interested in self harm not a specific organsiation that represents

or speaks for people who self harm. There are many community sites of

varying sizes that offer peer-support, and forums for discussions of an

emotional, philosophical and /or psychological nature as well as general chit-

chat.

There is some debate as to whether such communities encourage and

support self harm, however, such communities are known as Pro-SI and are

separate from general SI Awareness communities.


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