A broad, global online charter in London for children and internet usage
July 18, 2008
Children from all over the world are going to meet in London for discussing how they can safeguard themselves from the ‘unsafe’ use of the internet. The conference aims at working out a broad, global online charter that is to be presented to the UN.
Well over 150 teenagers from close to 20 different nations are participating in the five-day conference.
Jim Gamble, the chief executive of Ceop, stated: “We will not be patronising them (the children). They will (on their own) engage law enforcement, industry, government and others; they will ask the questions themselves and deliver the challenges.”
The conference comes as a new survey indicates that most of the parents polled as part of it had not bothered to check their child’s online history, but 26 per cent of those who had done so had indeed found something they were not happy with.
Dr Tanya Byron, the TV psychologist, who contributed to the report, stated: “I think the key is for (new-age) parents to treat the issue in the same way that they would approach other potential concerns!”
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