[Chapter-delegates] Safer Internet Day 2013: Message from Neelie Kroes

[Maureen Hilyard]

Great advice Alejandro. Wish we had a “LIKE” button for emails J

 

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[mailto:chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org] On Behalf Of Eduardo Diaz
Sent: Thursday, 7 February 2013 4:13 a.m.
To: Dr. Alejandro Pisanty Baruch
Cc: Chapter Delegates
Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] Safer Internet Day 2013: Message from
Neelie Kroes

 

Totally agree with you Alejandro.

 

Eduardo

ISOC-Puerto Rico

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Dr. Alejandro Pisanty Baruch
<apisan at unam.mx> wrote:

Victor, 

 

thanks for pointing to the Safer Internet Day and the work on the subject
you are promoting in Cameroon. Let me add two comments: 

 

1. From long-standing experience we know it is valuable to be careful with
children online safety campaigns and some of their backers, as they may be
started out of fear and to attract control-driven mentalities. Thus they are
a good opportunity for you and ISOC Cameroon to promote an Internet-oriented
mentality in which openness is highly valued.

 

2. From a woman named Parry Aftab, a great leader and one of the pioneers of
children online safety, who is also a dear friend and was very active in
ISOC, I learned taht the greatest risk for children is not the evils that
can happen online but being left off the Internet. The other (admittedly
sometimes awful) evils have to be managed accordingly to this priority.
Children have to learn (with assistance) to live online as much as they
learn to live in an unsafe world offline. 

 

I add to the above that it is useful to calibrate online risk management
with offline risk management. In many of the places where today's children
live the physical world is far more dangerous and scary than anything you
can find online!!

 

I hope you find this useful, and commesurate with what you are doing.

 

Yours,

 

Alejandro Pisanty

 

 

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Desde: chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org
[chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org] en nombre de Victor Ndonnang
[ndonnang at nvconsulting.biz]
Enviado el: jueves, 07 de febrero de 2013 07:07
Hasta: Chapter Delegates
Asunto: [Chapter-delegates] Safer Internet Day 2013: Message from Neelie
Kroes

Dear Colleagues,

Today 5th February 2013, The Internet Community is celebrating the "Safer
Internet Day" initiated by the European Union Programme called "Safer
Internet".  The theme for 2013 is "Online Rights and Responsibilities"; It
encourages Internet users to"connect with respect".

I found this post and message of Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the EU
Commission about SID2013 very interesting and wanted to share it with you.
You can read more:
http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/neelie-kroes/safer-internet-kids-201/

"The Internet — open, free, innovative — offers so many benefits for
children and adults. But you’re not truly free online unless you’re safe.
And with simple tools we can ensure the best benefits for everyone."

I'm deeply following this because my project as an ISOC Next Generation
Leaders Laureate 2012 aims to promote safe and responsible use of the
Internet by Children and young people in Cameroon. I will be implementing it
during the next 8 months. Thanks to the Internet Society of the Support.

For more information, visit:

*	The Safer Internet Day Web site:
http://www.saferinternetday.org/web/guest;jsessionid=6C5BFA04F85DC3F176348F4
DD32F344E 
*	Follow the Safer Internet Day 2013 celebration live on twitter using
the hashtag #SID2013; 
*	Have a look on Safer Internet Cameroon Facebook Page:
https://www.facebook.com/SaferInternet.cm 

Internet Safety is everyone responsibility. 
Best regards,
Victor.



-- 
Victor NDONNANG
Internet Governance Specialist
Internet Society Next Generation Leader Laureate 2012
Secretary General
ISOC Cameroon Chapter
 


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