[Chapter-delegates] Child Safety and Parental / Institutional Safeguards

Wed Feb 11 07:56:19 PST 2009

Hello Parry Aftab,

Thank you for your approval of the contents reproduced. We will make your
trip to India memorable and take care to build into the schedule a day or
two of a trip to the mountains or places of your interest !!

Thanks.

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Parry Aftab <parry at aftab.com> wrote:

>  Well put, and you have my permission to use this content. I hope we can
> get to India. I have not been there since I was three J
>
> Best.
>
> Parry
>
>
>
> *From:* Sivasubramanian Muthusamy [mailto:isolatedn at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 11, 2009 10:07 AM
> *To:* Bill Graham
> *Cc:* Alejandro Pisanty; Parry Aftab, Esq.; Chapter Delegates
>
> *Subject:* Re: [Chapter-delegates] Child Safety and Parental /
> Institutional Safeguards
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Following these resources from Bill Graham and Alejandro Pisanty, I have
> compiled another press release for another news paper here, (which required
> a new write up different from the one that we sent to The Hindu) and this
> one is based more on Parry Aftab's Wired Safety<http://www.wiredsafety.org/parent.html>and Wired
> Kids <http://www.wiredkids.org/index.html>
>
> The press release in PDF format is attached. There is a lot of enthusiasm
> at the Chapter level for a major event on Wired Safety, which would take
> shape as a program proposal in the next few days with which we hope to
> approach Parry Aftab for her presence in Chennai, India, hopefully with an
> invitation to ISOC Delhi and ISOC Calcutta to join together with us on this.
>
> Thanks
> Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
>
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:09 AM, Bill Graham <graham at isoc.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> As you are surveying what is available, you might want to look at the Media
> Awareness Network site in Canada -- lots of good material there as well.
>
> http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/special_initiatives/web_awareness/
>
> Bill
>
>
>
> On 9-Feb-09, at 1:23 PM, Alejandro Pisanty wrote:
>
>  S.,
>
> a long-time member of ISOC, Parry Aftab, has excellent insights and
> experience in this field. Her publications and public interventions are
> exemplary. And, she doesn't buy all the FUD+control Kool-Aid.
>
> Her work is easy to find online, but I'm copying her anyway, as she may
> want to know why suddenly millions of hits from Chennai start to arrive at
> her pages.
>
> Yours,
>
> Alejandro Pisanty
>
>
> .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . .  .  .  .  .  .
>    Dr. Alejandro Pisanty
> UNAM, Av. Universidad 3000, 04510 Mexico DF Mexico
>
> Tels. +52-(1)-55-5105-6044, +52-(1)-55-5418-3732
>
> *Mi blog/My blog: http://pisanty.blogspot.com
> *LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/pisanty
> *Unete al grupo UNAM en LinkedIn,
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>
> ---->> Unete a ISOC Mexico, http://www.isoc.org
> Participa en ICANN, http://www.icann.org
> .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
>  .
>
>
> On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy wrote:
>
> Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 23:51:02 +0530
> From: Sivasubramanian Muthusamy <isolatedn at gmail.com>
> To: Chapter Delegates <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>
> Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] Child Safety and Parental / Institutional
>        Safeguards
> Hello All,
>
> In response to this message Holly Raiche from ISOC AU sent some pointers
> and
> a link to www.acma.gov.au.which led to resources such as Cybersmart Kids
> <http://www.cybersmartkids.com.au>  I have also found some resources from
> BBC, FBI and other sites and have compiled this press release which is a
> write up + a toned down compilation of the tips gathered from these sites.
> The document is attached in PDF and word formats with a request to comment
> if the statement is 'balanced' enough.
>
> I have also requested ISOC AU's help in obtaining content filtering
> programs
> for homes and schools now being freely distributed by the Government of
> Australia. Hope ISOC India Chennai could take more help on more purposeful
> programs from ISOC AU and other chapters as we go.
>
> Thank you
>
> --
> Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
> CEO, Turiya
> President
> ISOC India Chennai
>
> http://isocmadras.blogspot.com
> http://www.circleid.com/members/3601/
> http://wealthyworld.blogspot.com
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy <
> isolatedn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> ISOC India Chennai has a very simple task of coming up with a list of
> Online Safety Tips for Children ( below 13 years and below 18 years ). In
> the Indian context,  a large proportion of these Internet users are new
> users so it could be assumed that most of them require very basic tips on
> Online Safety.
>
> It is a simple task of drawing up a list of (1) What to do and what not to
> do online for Children as also (2) providing tips to Parents and Teachers
> on
> content filtering and even broadly monitoring the below 13's use of
> Internet.
>
> As part (2) of the exercise needs to be carefully approached, I am
> requesting inputs from the Chapter Delegates to guide India Chennai with
> information about work done by other chapters in this area, and also
> suggest
> tips in your role as Parents, as Internet Technical experts or as Educators
> or as Civil Society participants.
>
> The Chapter would be publishing an article, possibly in one of India's
> leading dailies and blogs - tomorrow, so a quick response is requested from
> anyone who could find a bit of time.
>
> Thank you
> Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
> ISOC India Chennai <http://isocmadras.blogspot.com>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Sivasubramanian Muthusamy <isolatedn at gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:00 PM
> Subject: {ISOC India Chennai Chapter} Safer Internet Day
> To: isocmadras at googlegroups.com
>
>
> Hello
>
>
> The twelfth of February was declared Safer Internet Day. The initiative
> taken by the European Commission is meant to sensitise society concerning
> the (un)safe use of ICT. However, the emphasis lies solely on communication
> issues: safe chat, sexual abuse, cyberbullying, pornography on the
> Internet,
> etc...
>
> Syed Nazir Razik of our Chapter has taken the initiative on Child Safety
> issues. His proposal, in broad terms, is that we form a working group on
> Child Safety and bring in Children, parents, Teachers and other
> stakeholders
> together to debate and work on Child Safety issues with respect to Internet
>
> For a start, the chapter will be providing inputs to The Hindu on Child
> Safety, in the form of Safety Tips for Children (addressed to parents and
> children separately).  The chapter would quickly write to other chapters to
> ask what they are doing in this area, and ask for some inputs as also do a
> little bit of collaborative work locally to determine what is relevant as
> measures in the area of Online Safety for Children.
>
> Inputs are required from Chapter members ( Security Experts, Parents,
> Teachers among our members ) on this exercise of drawing up SIMPLE safety
> tips ( for instance teach children to log off after browsing in an internet
> cafe, do not post pictures in unsafe social networking sites, do not share
> information about your physical location among strangers etc..  And for
> parents of children below 13 years, advise on browser settings, content
> filter settings etc )
>
> These inputs are required by Tuesday Noon, sooner if possible.
>
> Thank you
> Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
>
> --
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> --
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> CEO, Turiya
> President
> ISOC India Chennai
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-- 
Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
CEO, Turiya
President
ISOC India Chennai

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