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Childnet contributes to major international youth conference on ICT for Peace
Stephen Carrick-Davies, Childnet’s CEO travelled this week to Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt to speak at International Youth Forum “The Power of Youth for Peace”. The international event, which was organised by The Suzanne Mubarak Women’s International Peace Movement, brought together over 600 young people from 100 different countries to review how ICT could be better used in promoting and sustaining a culture of peace among young people.
Cyberbullying Conference – 25th September 2007
Childnet International announced today that it would be assisting the The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) in holding two national conferences on cyberbullying this autumn. The first of these conferences will be on Tuesday 25th September 2007 and will include the launch of new cyberbullying guidance for schools which has been produced for the Department by Childnet International in close consultation with members of the DCSF Taskforce on Cyberbullying.
Childnet supports cyber security awareness campaign in Malaysia
Stephen Carrick-Davies, Childnet’s CEO travelled to Malaysia this week to speak at a special Knowledge Sharing Session on public awareness hosted by (ISC)2, Affiliated Local Interest Group (ALIG) and CyberSecurity Malaysia. The event served to launch the ESecurity.org.my website, which was unveiled by The Deputy Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Government of Malaysia, Y.B. Dato’ Kong Cho Ha.
Research reveals that trainee teachers urgently need E-safety education.
Children’s internet charity, Childnet International, announced today the publication of a research report entitled ‘E-safety: Evaluation of Key Stage 3 Materials for Initial Teacher Education’. The report details the work and findings from a four month research project undertaken by academics from leading initial teacher training institutes in England. The research which was initiated and co-ordinated by Childnet with funding from the Training and Development Agency for Schools and Microsoft, aimed to identify if and how e-safety education could be incorporated into the current initial teacher education.
Childnet addresses European health professionals
CEO gives key note speech at EUSUHM Congress 2007. Childnet’s Chief Executive, Stephen Carrick-Davies travelled to Tampere in Finland this week to give a keynote speech to health professionals at the European Union for School and University Health and Medicine (EUSUHM) congress.
Childnet makes submission to European Commission's public consultation on safer internet and online technologies for children.
Childnet International today submitted and published its submission to the European Commission’s Public Consultation on Safer Internet and online technologies for children.
Parents helped to “Know IT All” in their own language
Government Minister welcomes new multi-lingual CD-ROM giving parents advice on internet safety. Childnet International, the children’s internet charity, announced today the launch of its latest Know IT All multimedia CD-ROM aimed at helping parents better support their children’s positive and safe use of the internet. In order to support the whole community, a summary of the advice has been translated into Arabic, Bengali, Gujarati, Polish, Mandarin, Punjabi, Urdu and British Sign Language.
Childnet calls for secondary curriculum review to include e-safety
This week Childnet international made its submission to the UK Qualifications and Curriculum Agency’s Review of the Secondary curriculum, calling for greater emphasis on E-Safety.
Childnet’s school outreach continues to expand
Childnet is wanting to expand its Kidsmart School Activity Days programme to respond to the growing demand from both primary and secondary schools for Childnet staff to run sessions with their pupils, staff and parents. Using drama, films, interactive presentations and discussions with pupils, Childnet staff are able to showcase and help inspire students to use the internet positively but also to listen to and help pupils reflect on the safety issues surrounding internet.
More (ISC)²® volunteers trained to deliver presentations to secondary school pupils
Following on from the pilot training in November 2006, Childnet have trained a further 80 internet security experts from the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium [(ISC)²®], to deliver internet safety and security presentations to secondary school pupils in the UK.
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