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

Thu Feb 12 18:57:21 PST 2009

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Alejandro Pisanty a écrit :
> 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
>
>
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> 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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