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

Lucy Lynch lynch at isoc.org
Fri Feb 13 08:49:00 PST 2009 

On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Bill Graham 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/

There is also some great work going on in the on-line identity space.
see for example: http://kidsonline.podbean.com/

and a US business built on child safety and parental consent
http://privo.com/

a little further afield, you might be interested in set of media
literacy resources housed here:

http://interact.uoregon.edu/medialit/mlr/home/

- Lucy

> 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, 
>> http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/22285/4A106C0C8614
>> 
>> ---->> 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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