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COMMUNICATING WITH YOUNG PEOPLECOMMUNICATING WITH YOUNG PEOPLE
ON ONLINE SAFETY ISSUESON ONLINE SAFETY ISSUES
Bénédicte Clouet
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1. Principles of actions:
• Avoiding fear-based tactics
• Understanding personal disclosure of information
• Encouraging communication
2. Examples:
• Helplines
• SID 2010
• Awareness tools
• Youth panels
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Avoiding fear-based tactics
• Avoid negative messages: “Online strangers are dangerous.” “If you meet in person with an online stranger, this person will try to harm you.”
• “stranger-danger” warnings and fear-based prevention approaches not effective
• Teach young people how to be smart internet users: empowerment
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Understanding personal disclosure
• A common safety message is: “Don’t post personal information online.”
• Reality is different: “How do I register on a site?” “How can I have fun on MySpace without sharing information about who I am?”
• “Think before you post” (SID 2010)
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Encouraging communication• Another standard Internet safety message
is: “If you feel uncomfortable about something that happens online, tell an adult.”
• In reality: unlikely
• Solutions:– Educate parents/teachers – Train teens to be effective peer mentors
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Helplines
• 20 e-safety helplines
• first point of contact for children seeking assistance
• Offer personalised advice to young people, parents and teachers about how to stay safe online
• Source of information/advice
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Safer Internet Day 2010
• International milestone event– in +/- 65 countries– Public bodies, NGOs, Industry
• Focused on “Children’s perspective”
• Next goal: set up
SID committees all
over the world
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Awareness tools
• Educational material, brochures, debate video clips, posters, newsletters…
• Speak the language of children
• E-safety kit: major success
•More than 350,000 hard copies disseminated•Published in 18 country/language versions
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E-Safety kit online
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Presence on social networks
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Youth Panels
• Listen, talk & interact
• Objectives:– Understand the target group
– Identify its needs
– Improve awareness campaigns
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First pan EU Youth Panel
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And now?
“Don’t ask our opinion and then not listen to what we have to say!”
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Thank you for your attentionFor further information contact
www.saferinternet.orgwww.europeanschoolnet.org
