On that occasion The Polish Safer Internet Centre has organized in Warsaw a conference dedicated to safety of children and young people using the internet and new technologies. As usual, European Consumer Centre in Poland is an expert partner in this project. Piotr Stańczak, the Director of ECC Poland brings to mind that appropriate education of children could cause less problems and consumer’s disputes in future.
The Organizers invited many scientists, teachers, parents, kids and lawyers(including representative of ECC Poland). Experts discussed the modern alerts and threats for youngest web users. The Short movie clips were displayed, many plots had possibility to stir. The discussion has moved to the audience soon. Second part was dedicated to children. The Polish Safer Internet Centre presented conclusions of action called “ Controlled purch@se” launched on November 2012. ECC Poland was a honorary patron in this project. Furthermore, organizers have resolved competitions connected with young users safety.
The Commision says that the average age for first going online in EU is seven. That’s why such events are organised. On 5th February EU Commission has presented the results of joint work of media , technology etc. One of its most important objective presented by this body, is children safety online. The biggest task is to secure kids and make the internet a better environment for them. Commission wants to ensure a trustworthy digital area and protect fundamental rights in the European Union.
Neelie Kroes- Vice President of Commission announces “„I am very happy that these leading companies have responded to the call and worked together across sectors to produce concrete results. Child protection should get Board level attention. More is needed. I look forward to implementation in 2013 and to seeing a new benchmark emerging in the on-line industry: child protection by default”. Kroes is responsible for the Digital Agenda and for launching the strategy to make a better internet for children.
Safer Internet Days is not the last project which has goal to protect kids from possible threats online. EU Commission will undertake many works in 2013 to support that help, e.g:
- Setting up a Corporate Responsibility platform to monitor the results of the coalition and merge it with other self-regulatory streams.
- Supporting the development of browser buttons for reports and links to helplines. Funding the hosting of a database of privacy settings for children run by Safer Internet Centres (via the existing Safer Internet Programme, and in proposed Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) digital services).
- Support industry research and innovation on interoperability of content classification schemes (from Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) and & Horizon 2020)
- Promote the development of age recognition services, building on the technical possibilities of EU-wide recognisable electronic identity cards as enabled by the draft legislation on eID.
- Investing in research into tools and technologies to detect child abuse content (in Horizon 2020).
If you want to find out more on the Safer Internet Day, you can visit the website awww.saferinternetday.org. This site provides a wealth of multilingual resources empowering young people, their teachers and their families to make the best possible use of online technology.
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