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3rd International Conference Keeping Children and Young People Safe Online Warsaw, , Marriott Hotel, 29-30 September 2009 3rd International Conference Keeping Children and Young People Safe Online Warsaw, 29-30 September 2009

Marriott Hotel, Al. Jerozolimskie 65, Warsaw, Poland The 3rd International Conference “Keeping Children and Young People Safe Online” is organized by the Polish and Ger- man Safer Internet Centres, established within the European Commission’s Safer Internet Programme. The main partner of the event is Orange Foundation. The conference will be held under the honorary patronage of: prof. – Minister of Science and Higher Education, – deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration, – Minister of Justice, Jolanta Fedak – Minister of Labour and Social Policy, – Minister of National Education, Elżbieta Radziszewska – the Government Plenipotentiary for Gender Equality, Marek Michalak – Ombudsman for Children, Michał Serzycki – the Inspector General for Personal Data Protection, Sławomir Ratajski – the Secretary General of Polish National Commission for UNESCO, Andrzej Matejuk – Police Commander in Chief, Main Police Headquarter and Office of Electronic Communications. The Warsaw conference will bring together representatives from the education sector, NGOs, law enforcement, govern- ment and industry. It will address a wide variety of issues re­lating to children and young people’s safety online, such as fighting and blocking child abuse images, cyberbullying, e-privacy, social networking sites, educational strategies. The aims of the conference are to raise awareness of the new challenges and opportunities in fighting Internet threats and to help share best practices across different sectors.

Organizing Committee Organizers

Chair Agnieszka Wrzesień, NCF

Vice Chair Anna Rywczyńska, NASK

Vice Chair Peter Behrens, klicksafe Main Partner

Julia Gursztyn, NASK Joachim Kind, klicksafe Stephanie Kutscher, klicksafe Łukasz Wojtasik, NCF Partners Katarzyna Zygmunt, NCF 3rd International Conference Conference Programme

Keeping Children and Young People Safe Online Tuesday 29 September 2009 Day 1 09.00-17.00 08.00-09.00 Registration Warsaw, 29-30 September 2009 09.00-11.00 Plenary session Moderator: Agnieszka Wrzesień, NCF, Poland Welcome Address • Agnieszka Wrzesień, Conference Chair, Nobody’s Children Foundation, Poland 09.00-09.15 • Ewa Niewiadomska-Szynkiewicz, NASK, Poland • Peter Behrens, Conference Vice Chair, klicksafe, Germany • Jadwiga Czartoryska, Orange Foundation, Poland 09.15-10.00 Influencing the political agenda – John Carr, eNACSO & CHIS, United Kingdom EU policy against sexual exploitation of children – Jakub Boratyński, Directorate General Justice, Freedom 10.00-10.30 and Security (DG JLS), European Commission

Using Internet Offenders Accounts to Inform Young People’s Online Safety Practices – prof. Julia Davidson, 10.30-11.00 Kingston University, United Kingdom 11.00-11.30 Coffee break 11.30-13.15 Plenary session Moderator: Anna Rywczyńska, NASK, Poland Using blocking to combat online child abuse images: necessary protection or unjustified restriction? 11.30-12.00 – dr Zoe Hilton, eNACSO & NSPCC, United Kingdom

Case studies of European cooperation in combating child sexual abuse – Gabrielle Shaw, Child Exploitation 12.00-12.25 and Online Protection Center, United Kingdom

Not only cyberbullying – experiences of Polish adolescents with electronic aggression – dr Jacek Pyżalski, 12.25-12.50 Pedagogy Academy in Łódź, Poland 12.50-13.15 Teenagers, e-marketing & privacy – dr Michel Walrave, University of Antwerp, Belgium 13.15-14.45 Lunch 14.45-17.00 Parallel sessions Session 1 (room A, B) Session 2 (room C, D) Session 3 (room E, F) Discussion panel: Internet safety at schools Responding to online risks Blocking illegal content Moderator: Łukasz Wojtasik, NCF, Poland Moderator: dr Joachim Kind, klicksafe, on the Internet – the role of ISPs Germany • Challenges, aims and strategies Moderator: Mirosław Maj, NASK, in education – Siegfried Czernohorsky, • Youth Protection Roundtable Poland Ministry of Education, Science, Youth – Jutta Croll, Stiftung Digitale Chancen, • Jakub Boratyński, DG JLS, and Culture, Germany Germany European Commission • Internet safety standards for school • Children’s exposure to harmful • Lars Kindervater, GSM informatics infrastructure – Dariusz content – Marta Wojtas, Helpline.org.pl, Association, Germany Stachecki, F. Szołdrski Junior High School NCF, Poland • Martyna Różycka & Marek Dudek, in Nowy Tomyśl, Poland Dyżurnet.pl, NASK, Poland • Internet addictions – Katarzyna Fenik, • School system of cyberbullying prevention Helpline.org.pl, NCF, Poland • Maciej Stencel, Netia, Poland – Anna Borkowska, Methodological Centre • Artur Barankiewicz, Polish for Pedagogical and Psychological Help, Telecommunication, Poland Poland • Frank Ackermann, eco, Germany • Mark Tverdynin, ROCIT, Russia 10 min break Discussion panel – continuation • Prevention of violence against children • Training counsellors about online through Internet in – Hana Hrpka, risks – Rebecca Maier & Miriam Mohr, Brave Phone, Croatia Nummer gegen Kummer e.V., Germany • Safe children – educated parents • Protection and rehabilitation of vic- – UPC educational programme for adults, tims of online sexual abuse in Rus- teachers, scouts – Lidia Stępińska-Ustasiak, sia – Olga Levina, NGO Stellit, Russia UPC Poland • Treatment of Child Victims • Tweens online safety: Net-Aman as a practi- of Pornographic Exploitation cal model from Egypt – Mohammed Fathy, in Germany – Julia von Weiler, Cyber Peace Initiative, Egypt Innocence in Danger, Germany

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Wednesday 30 September 2009 Day 2 09.00-16.30 09.00-11.00 Plenary session Moderator: Agnieszka Wrzesień, NCF, Poland 09.00-09.30 What is information and media literacy? – Janice Richardson, INSAFE, Belgium Web 2.0: Challenges for media education – dr Mirosław Filiciak, Warsaw School of Social Sciences 09.30-10.00 and Humanities, Poland

The parents’ responsibility in their kids’ media education – their view and their role – dr Veronica Samara, 10.00-10.20 Saferinternet.gr, Greece 10.20-10.40 Children’s experiences in the digital world: Challenges and Opportunities – Thomas Hepsø, SAFT, Norway Educating children on Internet safety – 5 years of Sieciaki.pl project: Experiences and Future plans 10.40-11.00 – Andrzej Piękoś, Marcin Sołodki & Łukasz Wojtasik, NCF, Poland 11.00-11.30 Coffee break 11.30-13.00 Plenary session Moderator: Peter Behrens, klicksafe, Germany The EU Safer Internet program – current developments and policy update – dr Michael Busch, Directorate 11.30-12.00 General Information Society and Media, European Commission 12.00-12.30 Internet of Things – challenges for child online protection – John Carr, eNACSO & CHIS, United Kingdom 12.30-13.00 Technical aspects of online safety – Mirosław Maj, NASK, Poland 13.00-14.30 Lunch 14.30-16.30 Parallel sessions Session 1 (room A, B) Session 2 (room C, D) Session 3 (room E, F)

Law enforcement session Teaching children about Internet safety Digital lifestyles – safety in social networking sites Moderator: Marek Dudek, NASK, Moderator: Katarzyna Zygmunt, NCF, Poland Poland Moderator: Stephanie Kutscher, klicksafe, Germany • What bothers Internet users? • KlickITsafe: testing IT safety Statistics of Polish hotline knowledge at schools – first steps • Effectivity of self-control in social – Dyżurnet.pl – Martyna Różycka, to the ECDL – Thomas Michel, DLGI, networks – Markus Berger-de León, Dyżurnet.pl, NASK, Poland Germany studiVZ Ltd, Germany • New legislative proposals • Lesson plans of „Child on the Web” • The secret life of our children to combat child abuse images campaign – Łukasz Wojtasik, NCF, – Piotr Kantyka, Nasza-klasa.pl, Poland – Rafał Lew-Starowicz, Poland online • Łukasz Kołodziejczyk, Wirtualna Polska, Office of the Chancellery • E-learning courses of “Child Poland of the Prime Minister, Poland on the Web” campaign – Marcin • Cooperation of Law Enforcements Sołodki, NCF & Zuzanna Staniewicz, and Friendly Runet hotline Orange Foundation, Poland in combating online child sexual abuse materials in Russia – Evgeny Bespalov, Friendly Runet, Russia

10 min break

• The role of expert witnesses • “My first mobile phone” campaign, • Social networking sites and data and specialists in cases of child – Katarzyna Nowicka, CenterNet S.A., protection – Michał Serzycki, GIODO, sexual abuse – Jakub Śpiewak, Poland Poland Kidprotect.pl, Poland • “Child-friendly Internet café” • Blogs – life online – Anna Rywczyńska, • Hate speech on the Internet – campaign summary – Julia Gursztyn, NASK, Poland – Stefan Glaser, Jugendschutz.net/ NASK, Poland International Network Against Cyber • School of Safe Internet – Magdalena Hate, Germany & dr Bartłomiej Ciołek, Kidprotect.pl, Poland Gutowski, “Never Again” Association, Poland

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Jerozolimskie Ave. level II

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Grand Ballroom

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Nowogrodzka Street

Session 1 – A+B Session 2 – C+D Session 3 – E+F

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The European Commission’s Safer Internet Programme was launched in 1999 and aims at promoting the safer use of the Internet and new online technologies, particularly for children. Main objectives of the Programme are: • Fighting against illegal content, • Tackling unwanted and harmful content, • Promoting a safer environment, • Raising awareness. The European Commission’s Safer Internet plus Programme (2005-2008) covers all new online technologies including mobile and broadband content, online games, peer-to-peer file transfer, and all forms of real-time communication (chat rooms and instant messaging). The scope of the new programme for 2009-2013 has been extended to include emerging online technologies and cover harmful conduct, like grooming and cyberbullying. Source: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/sip/index_en.htm

Polish Safer Internet Centre The Polish Safer Internet Centre was established in 2005 within the European Commission’s Safer Internet Programme. The Centre is run by the Nobody’s Children Foundation (Fundacja Dzieci Niczyje) and Research and Academic Com- puter Network (Naukowa i Akademicka Sieć Komputerowa – NASK) – Coordinator of the Centre. The Centre under- takes a number of comprehensive activities aimed at imp roving the safety of children and young people using the Internet and new technologies. Most projects of the Centre are implemented in cooperation with the Orange Foundation.

Nobody’s Children Foundation (NCF) NCF is a nonprofit non-governmental organization, which since 1991 has been providing a broad scope of assistance for abused children, their families and caregivers. The Foundation runs advocacy centre for abused children, organises and implements many projects related to the problem of child abuse and provides training courses to different groups of professionals. Since 2004 NCF has been working in the field of Internet safety. The Foundation has conducted systematic research into young Internet users and their parents’ attitudes and experiences online. More information: www.fdn.pl

Research and Academic Computer Network (NASK) NASK is a research and development unit which has been operating in Poland since December 1993. NASK – once a pioneer of the Polish Internet – is currently one of the leading Internet operators in Poland. NASK is the administrator of the national registry of “.pl” domain names and carries out scientific and research & development activities in cooperation with the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology of Warsaw University of Technology. For many years NASK has been creating the resources of the Polska.pl (Poland.pl) portal. NASK operates CERT Polska Team, which handles network security incidents. More information: www.nask.pl

The Polish Safer Internet Centre implements three projects: Saferinternet.pl Comprehensive awareness-raising activities aimed at promoting safer use of the Internet and new technologies by children and young people. www.saferinternet.pl Project implemented by FDN and NASK in cooperation with the Orange Foundation. Helpline.org.pl Project under which support and advice is offered to young Internet users, parents and professionals encountering threats related to the use of the Internet and mobile phones by children and young people. www.helpline.org.pl Project implemented by FDN and the Orange Foundation. Dyżurnet.pl Hotline receiving reports about illegal Internet content, such as child abuse images, racism and xenophobia. www.dyzurnet.pl Project implemented by NASK.

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klicksafe klicksafe is the German Awareness project within the European Commission’s Safer Internet Programme. Since 2004, klicksafe has been striving for raising the awareness of internet users in order to increase internet safety, especially for children and adolescents. This is implemented in various action fields: with the website www.klicksafe.de, klicksafe offers an up-to-date web portal with profound information about different aspects and topics of internet safety, chances and risks, and concrete tips and assistance for parents and pedagogues. Furthermore, klicksafe has developed qualification measures for parents and for teachers as well as information material (flyer, brochures) that are offered and distributed nationwide. In a broad nationwide marketing campaign, klicksafe aims at making the public aware of safer internet topics and bringing it on everybody’s and the media’s agenda. Two TV clips have up to now been published and very successfully been distributed on websites and broadcasted on TV and in cinemas. For the Safer Internet Campaign, klicksafe closely works together with partners on national level as well as with the European partners in the Safer Internet Programme. klicksafe is run by a consortium consisting of the two public bodies Media Authority for Rhineland-Palatinate (Landeszentrale für Medien und Kommunikation Rheinland-Pfalz, LMK, coordinator) and Media Authority of North Rhine- Westphalia (Landesanstalt für Medien Nordrhein-Westfalen, LfM). The Media Authorities in Germany are responsible for the licensing and supervision of commercial radio and television broadcasting, as well as for promoting media literacy and media education. In Germany, the Safer Internet Programme is being implemented by the Saferinternet DE group. To this belong, apart from the Awareness Centre klicksafe, the Hotlines internet-beschwerdestelle.de (implemented by eco and FSM) and jugendschutz. net as well as the child Helpline Nummer gegen Kummer. More information: www.klicksafe.de

Main Partner Orange Foundation Telekomunikacja Polska (Polish Telecom) and Orange (a GSM operator) launched the TP Group Foundation (currently re-branded to Orange Foundation) to carry out social, educational, and charity projects. This decision was a natural consequence of both companies’ long-standing activity in this field and an expression of their strong social commitment. Additionally, the launch of the Foundation separated their nonprofit activity from their business operation. Acting on behalf of its founders, the Orange Foundation joins important social initiatives, and funds or co-funds projects in the areas of education, culture, health care and volunteer work, as well as charity work for children and youth. The Foundation both carries out its own, original projects, and cooperates with Polish and international social institutions in the implementation of broader programmes. More information: www.fgtp.pl

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Session Attendance The Conference comprises plenary and parallel sessions. Only registered participants holding conference badges will be admitted to the conference sessions. Plenary sessions will be held on the 1st and 2nd conference days, from 9:00 to 13:15 / 13:00. After the lunch break the conference delegates may choose among the parallel sessions. If there are no spare seats left in one room, participants will be requested to choose another session.

Simultaneous Interpretation Sessions will be conducted in either Polish or English. For all sessions simultaneous Polish-English / English-Polish interpretation will be provided. To obtain interpretation headphones participants will need to show their conference badge and ID card.

Conference Evaluation Conference materials include an anonymous evaluation form. All attendees are kindly requested to complete the form and leave it in the marked place at the Registration Desk. Your opinions on conference organisation and the quality of conference sessions will be helpful for future events.

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Frank Ackermann, eco – Verband der deutschen Internetwirtschaft e. V., Germany Frank Ackermann is a Senior Legal Counsel with eco – Verband der deutschen Internetwirtschaft e. V. (the German Internet Business Association), supporting the German Internet Service Provider Association to tackle illegal and harmful content online since 2003. He is a member of the board of the International Network of Internet Hotlines (INHOPE) since 2007. In 2008 he was elected Vice President of INHOPE. Since 2003, Frank is practicing law in Bonn after he graduated as a civil servant in Cologne. He has previously worked with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) for repatriation programmes in Bosnia and Kosovo. In 1998 and 2002, Frank has spent several months in Sofia/Bulgaria, working for the Lega Interconsult law firm as well as for the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation. Frank studied law in Gießen and Bonn (Germany), as well as Slavic studies in Bonn (Germany). Artur Barankiewicz, Polish Telecommunication, Poland Head of the Department for IT Security Incidents Service. He works in the area of IT security since 2000. Since 2005 he has been responsible for breaches of network security at Polish Telecommunication (the national telecom operator). Initiated numerous actions meant to increase the safety of Internet users, such as security packages and free of charge protection tools, made available by TP SA. Together with his team, in 2006 he caused the change of the team’s name from ABUSE TP to TP CERT, which was tied to obtaining the accreditation from CERT US. Under the activities meant to increase awareness of threats tied to , provides a source of information for customers on a dedicated portal on security issues, at www.tp.pl/ cert. Representing the Department of Teleinformation Systems’ Security, participates in the development of legislation, as well as in the adaptation of EU regulations and national laws. Peter Behrens, Conference Vice Chairman, klicksafe, Germany Peter Behrens has education in political science, German literature and education science. From 1984 he was working as a scientific assistant at the University of Trier, in a project concerning private broadcasting. From 1988 he worked as a project coordinator in Company market and media research. From 1990 he dealt with protection of minors, research, TV and Radio control, press and public relations for the Media Authority of Rhineland-Palatinate (Landeszentrale für Medien und Kommunikation, LMK), Rhineland-Palatinate. Since 2000 he is head of department for media literacy/public access channels/research. Further tasks include: Coordinator Safer Internet Centre Germany, Coordinator German Awareness Centre “klicksafe”, Insafe Steering Committee member (all: EU Safer Internet Programme), directorate of Foundation Media Literacy Forum Southwest (MKFS), directorate of Media Education Research Association Southwest, directorate of Institute education public access channels (BZBM), Member of film age rating board Germany Markus Berger-de León, studiVZ Ltd., Germany Markus Berger-de León, born in 1973, was appointed CEO of studiVZ Ltd. on 1st March 2009. Prior to his current position Markus served as CEO of MY-HAMMER AG. From 2002-2007 he worked for Jamba, the leading provider of mobile content and entertainment services. During his last two years at Jamba he served as Managing Director, taking overall responsibility of the Jamba business unit. Markus has also previously acted as CTO and COO of a software company that he co-founded, where his responsibilities included establishing IT-driven business-to-business procurement services for customers across Europe. Markus Berger-de León holds a degree in business administration from the WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management in Koblenz, Germany. Additionally, he studied at the Columbia Business School and at Plekhanov in Moscow. Currently Markus still holds the position of CEO of the Abacho AG and supervisory board Chairman of the MyHammer AG. Berger-de León is an authority on mobile, media, web 2.0 and convergence topics and frequently speaks on mobile services and content, digital entertainment, mobile technology and industry convergence. About us: VZnet Netzwerke Ltd. was created in October 2005 as studiVZ Ltd. and has belonged to the Publishing Group since January 2007. As market leader in Germany we have more than 15 million registered members on our three platforms studiVZ.net, schuelerVZ.net, and meinVZ.net. Our growth continues, with thousands of new users joining every day. Our goal is to build on the success of our platforms, and to remain the largest and most successful network in the German speaking area. The CEO of VZnet Netzwerke Ltd. is Markus Berger-de León. The company’s headquarters are in Berlin, and it currently has around 240 employees. Evgeny Bespalov, Friendly Runet Foundation, Russia Evgeny Bespalov is a director general of Friendly Runet Foundation (a safer Internet center in Russia, a member of INHOPE association) since 2008. In 2004-2007 he was an editor-in-chief of Russian awareness web-portal ‘Vash lichny Internet’. He has been engaged in scientific jobs in the academic world. Mr. Bespalov holds a Cand.Econ.Sci. degree. Also he has MBA degree. Evgeny Bespalov is a member of Organizing Committee for Safer Internet Year in Russia.

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Jakub Boratyński, Directorate General Justice, Freedom and Security (DG JLS), European Commission Head of Unit ‘Fight against Organised Crime’ in the European Commission in Brussels (Directorate General Justice, Freedom and Security), previously working on EU relations with Russia (Directorate General External Relations). Before joining the European Commission Programme Director with Stefan Batory Foundation in Warsaw and Policy Officer with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Involved inthe past in civil society transparency and anti-corruption activities in Poland. Graduate of the London School of Economics and the University of Warsaw (international relations, law).

Anna Borkowska, CMPPP, Poland Psychologist, social therapist. Since 2005 has been working as a consultant-teacher in the Health Promotion Department of the Methodological Centre for Pedagogical and Psychological Help in Warsaw (Centrum Metodyczne Pomocy Psychologiczno-Pedagogicznej, CMPPP). CMPPP is a nationwide, public teacher training entity established by the Minister of National Education. It develops and coordinates the implementation of system solutions aimed at improving the quality and availability of psychological and pedagogical assistance within the educational system. As a specialist in the field of early prevention of risk- bearing behaviors and violence against children, Borkowska conducts consultation and training sessions for educational sector employees (superintendent’s offices, teacher training centers, voivodeship methodological centers, schools). She is a co-author of and has taken part in implementing a number of preventive projects and programmes that enhance the development of psychological and social skills of teachers, students and parents.

dr Michael Busch, Directorate General Information Society and Media (DG INFSO), European Commission Dr Michael Busch graduated in law from the Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, where he also completed basic studies of musical sciences and Anglistics, and phenomenology of music with Sergiu Celibidache. Michael Busch obtained his PhD Dr. iuris degree on Spanish constitutional law, having done research work in the University of Valencia, Faculty of Law. His professional career as a lawyer started in the legal department of a multinational enterprise, then he worked as a deputy mayor in the district administration of Ludwigshafen/ Rhein in Germany. Since 1994 Michael Busch has been working for the European Commission. He worked in the Education, Training and Youth Directorate-General as an Administrator responsible for the design, co-ordination and implementation of the opening of the Leonardo da Vinci programme to the at that time 10 candidate countries of Central and Eastern Europe to the EU and to Cyprus. In 1997 – 2005 Michael Busch was administrator and the project officer in Enterprise Directorate- General within the INNOVATION programme and was responsible for developing the regional innovation policies action line and for building up the „Innovating Regions in Europe” network, which finally gathered 200 European regions. Since 2005 Michael Busch has been working in the Information Society and Media Directorate-General, being responsible for Safer Internet projects and policies and for drafting the Safer Internet 2009-2013 Programme.

John Carr, eNACSO & CHIS, United Kingdom John is Secretary of the Children’s Charities’ Coalition on Internet Safety (CHIS), comprising all of the UK’s major professional child protection and child welfare organizations. He was previously the Head of the Children and Technology Unit at NCH. The focus of much of John’s work is on the “”, seeking to ensure all children and young people can benefit from the wonderful opportunities presented by the new technologies. He has given particular attention to the requirements of children with special needs. John was a founding member of the Home Secretary’s Internet Task Force on Child Protection where, inter alia, he chaired the sub group that developed a kitemark for Internet safety software. John was also a member of the education ministry’s Universal Home Access Task Force. On this Task Force John chaired the sub group addressing the safety component of the overall offering. He has also acted as an expert adviser and evaluator for the EU. John was formerly the Internet columnist for Prospect magazine and has written about the Internet for The Observer, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and many newspapers and periodicals, both in the UK and overseas. In May, 2006, John was named by the New Statesman as one of 50 “Modern Heroes”. The New Statesman citation related to his work making the Internet safer for children. In 2003 John was named by New Media Age as one of the UK’s 50 most influential people in the new media industries. Along the way John was also a founding trustee of DEMOS, one of the UK’s leading, independent Think Tanks. John is a Director of Horsesmouth Ltd. – a charity which runs an online career and life mentoring scheme. He is also a pro bono Technology Adviser to Breakthrough Breast Cancer. He was formerly a member of Microsoft’s Advisory Board for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. John is a consultant to a number of commercial concerns in the technology space.

8 9 Magdalena Ciołek, Kidprotect.pl Foundation, Poland Magdalena Ciołek is a clinical social psychologist, a graduate from the 1st and 2nd degree courses in Solution Speakers Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) and the School of Counteracting Violence in the Family. She has co-operated with the Association for Counteracting Violence in the Family – “Blue Line”, providing consultations for persons involved in domestic violence. Currently Magdalena Ciołek is a vice president and trainer of the Kidprotect.pl Foundation, a member of the Team for Combating Children’s Discrimination in Mass Media at the Office of the Prime Minister, and the coordinator of the “Children under Protection” Agreement. Privately, she likes sailing.

Jutta Croll, Stiftung Digitale Chancen, Germany Jutta Croll is Managing Director of Stiftung Digitale Chancen (Digital Opportunities Foundation) since 2003. The Digital Opportunities Foundation is a German NGO working on overcoming the Digital Divide, promoting E-Inclusion and providing programmes and tools to promote Digital Literacy for underserved groups. Jutta Croll has worked as a researcher in several projects concerning the use of media and digital literacy. She holds a university degree in political science, media science and German literature and is member of several steering groups of European projects in the field of e‑Inclusion and Digital Literacy.

Jadwiga Czartoryska, Orange Foundation, Poland Jadwiga Czartoryska, President of the Board of Orange Foundation, is a graduate of the Sociology Department of the University of Warsaw. She has also graduated from the Social Sciences Department of the Sorbonne in Paris (DEA diploma). She started her professional career in France, where until 1991 she worked in market research companies, servicing primarily financial institutions. After 1991, in Poland, she set up the office of the French-Polish Chamber of Commerce, and next the Center for French Investments in Poland, where she held the position of director. During this period, France started more intense investments in Poland, and the offices managed by Ms. Jadwiga Czartoryska helped the French companies to invest in the Polish market. Later, she worked for a few companies as director responsible for corporate communication and public relations (for example, at Fidea Management and the Polish branch of Saint-Gobain). She has also co-operated with the Ministry for European Integration and the Polish Agency for Regional Development (1992-1996), where she was the co-author of the first regional development programs, finance by the PHARE Fund of the . In the years 2000-2006, she was the director of the Polish Institute in Paris, whose main role is to promote Poland abroad through its culture. Recently, she has worked at Polish Telecommunication (in the Corporate Communication and Content Division), as director representing France Telecom. She was responsible for public affairs and cultural sponsoring of the FT Group.

Siegfried Czernohorsky, Ministry of Education, Science, Youth and Culture Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany Siegfried Czernohorsky, born in 1950, spent his school time in Trier and also finished high school there with Abitur (Higher School Certificate). In 1972 he started university in Trier, studying to become a teacher for grammar school (Gymnasium). After his 1st and 2nd state examinations in 1977 resp. 1978, he began working as a teacher at Thomas-Morus-Gymnasium in Daun in 1979. From 1990, he was head of the media centre of the administrative district of Daun and in this function contributed to model tests in the areas of media and media education as well as to numerous radio and film projects on media education. From 1995, he was member of the school leadership team at Thomas-Morus-Gymnasium in Daun. In 2001, he was delegated to the Ministry of Education, Women and Youth Rhineland- Palatinate; since 2004 he is head of department “Media and New Information and Communication Technologies in School” within the ministry (today: Ministry of Education, Science, Youth and Culture). Since 2007 he is project coordinator for the 10- point-programme of the state government, “Medienkompetenz macht Schule” (“Media Literacy Heads the Class”).

prof. Julia Davidson, Kingston University, United Kingdom Julia Davidson is Professor of Criminology and is Director of Social Research at Kingston University, she is also Co-Director of the newly formed Centre for Abuse & Trauma Studies (with Professor Antonia Bifulco, Royal Holloway University of London). Professor Davidson has conducted a considerable amount of research in the criminal justice area and has a PhD in Social Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She was awarded an honorary Professorship at Royal Holloway, University of London in May 2009. She has extensive experience of applied policy and practice research and has directed work with young victims, serious violent and sexual offenders, criminal justice practitioners and sentencers. Recent funded work includes: a longitudinal study evaluating the impact of community treatment programmes on convicted child sexual abusers undertaken on behalf of the National Probation Service (2003); a study funded by the Metropolitan Police Authority and Crimestoppers, which sought to explore child safety on the Internet and the role of the police in raising awareness amongst children about sexual abuse (2005); an evaluation and overview of approaches to risk assessment and management of Internet sex offenders funded by the Risk Management Authority (Scotland, 2007) and a exploration of young victims experiences and perceptions of the investigative process, funded by the Metropolitan Police Child Abuse Investigation Command (with Professor Bifulco, RHUL – 2007, ongoing). She is currently co-directing the first European study of Internet groomers with partners in Norway, Italy and Belgium the study is funded by the EC Safer Internet Programme. Professor Davidson is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Professor Davidson has published extensively in the sexual and Internet abuse area and provides

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regular expert advice on criminal justice issues to the media and has recently worked on documentaries (she has worked with ITV Evening News, the ITV News Channel, BBC 24 news Channel, BBC Radio Four Woman’s Hour, BBC Five Live Radio, BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, BBC 2, BBC Northern Ireland). The ITN Evening News team have recently run an extended news item on Professor Davidson’s research, and the findings were also featured on the BBC Five Live Show.

dr Marek Dudek, Dyżurnet.pl, NASK, Poland He has been working for NASK (Research and Academic Computer Network) for over 4 years. During this period, he built and developed the Dyżurnet.pl Team, which deals with reports of illegal content on the Internet. He participates in the implementation of European Union contracts and projects from the Safer Internet group. Before that, he worked for 9 years at Polish Telecommunication (the national telecom operator), where he led the Security Department, building the first team that reacted to reports of various Internet abuse. He graduated from the Military University of Technology, where he defended his doctoral thesis on cryptographic information protection. Marek Dudek has often been a speaker at various conferences on information protection and on reacting to Internet abuse. He participated in the work of the international ETNO organization (The European Telecommunications Network Operators’ Association), and since his move to the NASK, he is involved in the work of INHOPE (the International Association of Internet Hotlines ) – an organization of all hotline teams working worldwide, responsible for receiving and acting on notifications of illegal contents, received from Internet users. Together with the team, he runs the website www.dyżurnet.pl, which contains documents and statistical data on the Safer Internet programme.

Mohammed Fathy, Cyber Peace Initiative, The Suzanne Mubarak Women’s International Peace Movement, Egypt Mohammed Fathy is a member of The Cyber Peace Initiative of the Suzanne Mubarak Women’s International Peace Movement, launched at the International Youth Forum, Sharm el Sheikh September 2007, in cooperation with The Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, and in partnership with the International Telecommunication Union, The UN Global Alliance for ICT and Development, Microsoft and Cisco. Mr. Fathy is also the Empowerment Program Manager of Cyber Peace Initiative, working in the field of ICT for society and development in which to create a strong momentum and create an impact on the global scale. Mr. Fathy is an active member of the UN Gaid Youth eLeaders Committee since November 2008. Before that, He worked in the business development field with over 8 years of experience in business development field at the Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology; he was also heading a unit for foreign direct investment in the Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA). Mr. Fathy contributed positively to the national efforts of the increasing the Egyptian ICT exports, and organized a number of successful matchmaking activities, where he acted as a liaison between the industry and the ministry Mr. Fathy has represented Egypt in a number of international forums and conferences; he received a special award for his activities in promoting the Egyptian ICT industry by H. E. Dr. Ahmed Nazif, former Minister of Communications and Information Technology and current Prime Minister of Egypt. His field of expertise is oriented towards business development, empowerment activities and innovative initiatives in the field of children and youth social development. Mr. Fathy studied at the Ain Shams University in Cairo, where he received his licentiate in English Literature, currently he is finishing his master degree in business administration from the Arab Academy for Science and Technology.

Katarzyna Fenik, Helpline.org.pl, Nobody’s Children Foundation, Poland A special pedagogue, psychotherapist (a graduate from a 2,5-year course on Child and Family Psychotherapy and a 4-year course of psychotherapy in Collegium Medicum at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow), and specialist in violence prevention. Between 2003 and 2006 she coordinated the clinical team of the Child and Family Centre in Warsaw (59 Walecznych Str.) – a specialized facility providing help for abused children and their families. Previously responsible for the development and implementation of the Psychological Help Programme for children living in abusive families within “Blue Line”: the Polish Nationwide Emergency Service for Victims of Domestic Violence. Katarzyna has experience in clinical work with child victims of violence and their families, in undertaking interventions in cases of domestic violence, and in carrying out training programmes, social campaigns (e.g., she was engaged in the organization and implementation of the “Childhood Without Violence” campaign), and conferences (including National Conferences on Violence organized by PARPA, The State Agency for Prevention of Alcohol Related Problems, and IPZ, the Institute of Health Psychology). She has co-developed and co-implemented many preventive and intervention programmes (e.g. “Moje Rysy” – a programme for children and youth staying in the Police Children’s Shelter; “Difficult Feelings” – a programme focusing on family violence prevention; “Mina” – violence prevention; and a programme for adolescents after alcohol use initiation). The author of programmes aimed at protecting children from violence (e.g., the “Child Witness” programme within the Emergency Service “Blue Line”), and class scenarios focusing on the prevention of children’s risky behaviours on the Internet (Nobody’s Children Foundation). Recently Katarzyna has been coordinating the

10 11 Helpline.org.pl project – a service providing support and crisis interventions for victims of child abuse on the Internet. She is also one of the authors of the Programme for Unaccompanied Foreign Children and Victims of Child Trafficking. She has Speakers written several articles published in professional journals and has conducted many training sessions, lectures, workshops and meetings of work groups representing various services and institutions (e.g., the police, prosecution offices, border guards, and residential care institutions) concerning violence against children. Since 2003 Katarzyna has been working for the Nobody’s Children Foundation (Warsaw, Poland).

dr Mirosław Filiciak, Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland A media scientist; he works at the Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities and manages the Centre for Popular Culture Research. The author of many publications about the influence of digital media on the social life and the forms of cultural participation. The editor of the Kultura Popularna quarterly and the author of Wirtualny plac zabaw (Virtual playground; WAiP, 2006).

Stefan Glaser, jugendschutz.net/INACH, Germany Stefan Glaser, born in 1969, co-founded the International Network Against Cyber Hate (INACH) in 2002 and since then is a member of the INACH board. He is deputy director of jugendschutz.net and has been managing the project of jugendschutz.net on right-wing extremism since 2000. He has a degree in educational and political science. For many years he worked in education programmes with kids, youngsters and adults. For jugendschutz.net, he and his team do research and develop educational concepts and tools on cyber hate. In 2007 he and Thomas Pfeiffer published the book “Erlebniswelt Rechtsextremismus” (The Adventurous World of Right-Wing Extremism).

Julia Gursztyn, NASK, Poland Since July 2007 she has worked in Saferinternet.pl project as an Internet service coordinator. Before, she worked in HR department in jobpilot Poland – Europe’s career market on the Internet. As a student, in 2004-2006, she was a coordinator of educational programme “Pomagamy” – a magazine for volunteers in one of the biggest polish NGOs – Polish Humanitarian Organization. In 2006 she attended GLEN (Global Education Network of Young Europeans) – a programme of joint non-profit, politically independent initiative of sending volunteers on internships to developing countries. As a participant of GLEN Julia spent three months in Ghana on journalist training in state run newspaper – “The Ghanaian Times”. Julia Gursztyn is a graduate from the Faculty of Psychology at The Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities.

dr Bartłomiej Gutowski, NEVER AGAIN Association, Poland Born in 1973, for the last 10 years he has been dealing with the issues of racism and neo-nazism in the Internet under the NEVER AGAIN Association. He has been in charge of the campaign “racism delete”(among others); he also prepares and edits a web page of the association: www.nigdywiecej.org and is the author of publications on racism and neo-fascism.

Thomas Hepsø, Norwegian Media Authority, Safe Use-project, Norway Thomas Hepsø has been working in the Norwegian Media Authority since 2007 as an adviser and now as a project coordinator of the Safe Use-project (SAFT) that promotes safe and effective use of the Internet and new technologies among young citizens. He has also been working at the Ombudsman for children in Norway and been involved in several projects on digital youth projects. He has also been a member of the PEGI advisory board and a member of a governmental expert group on crime prevention. He is graduated in Social psychology (MA) from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

dr Zoë Hilton, eNACSO & NSPCC, United Kingdom Dr Zoë Hilton is the NSPCC’s (The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children) policy lead on a range of child protection issues including child protection and new technologies, sexual abuse and exploitation, child trafficking and offender management. Dr Hilton regularly represents the interests of the NSPCC and also works actively within CHIS (the Children’s Charities Coalition on Internet Safety) to campaign and lobby on child safety issues in the online environment. Dr Hilton is also a thematic lead on sexual abuse on the Internet for the new eNACSO (European NGO Alliance for Child Safety Online) network funded by the EU and sits on the management committee. She is now involved in shaping this network of NGOs in sharing expertise and delivering consensus on Internet safety issues to strengthen the voice of children’s organisations across Europe. Prior to joining the NSPCC, dr Hilton researched and lectured in social policy at the Heriot-Watt University, where she also completed her PhD in Sociology and Criminology. Dr Hilton has authored and published several papers and articles about the experiences of children and young people.

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Hana Hrpka, Brave Phone, Croatia Psychologist, president of NGO Brave Phone (Hrabri telefon) – helpline for abused and neglected children. She is also a Junior Assistant at J.J. Strossmayer University in at Department of Psychology and Postgraduate student of Psychology in . She joined Brave phone 10 years ago, as a volunteer on the Helpline. Now, she is working as a counselor at Counseling center for parents and children, supervisor and educator of volunteers. As well she is managing the NGO. In her regular work she is engaged in conducting scientific researches among which are researches on children’s experiences on the Internet. On the bases of these researches, she was involved in creating a preventive programme “Safer Internet”.

Paweł Kantyka, nasza-klasa.pl, Poland An acoustician by education, a graduate from the Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunication of the University of Technology in Wroclaw. Currently he works as a security specialist for the nasza-klasa.pl portal. He joined the Nasza Klasa company at the beginning of 2008. As a Security Department employee, he is responsible for the portal’s contact with law enforcement bodies and for preventing and/or eliminating any offences or transgressions on the portal. Furthermore, his tasks include detecting and preventing online threats (phishing, spam, etc.).

dr Joachim Kind, klicksafe, Germany Head of Communication at the Media Authority of Rhineland-Palatinate (Landeszentrale für Medien und Kommunikation, LMK), Ludwigshafen, since 2006 and spokesman for the Safer Internet Centre Germany as well as for klicksafe, the German Awareness Centre (both within EU Safer Internet Programme). In 2001-2005 he was a Managing Director of the Joint Commission on Digital Access of the State Media and Regulatory Authorities, Berlin. Since 1998 until 2001, he was Spokesman of the Media Authority for Broadcasting (LPR) Ludwigshafen and in 1998 also Spokesman of the Directors’ Conference of the State Media Authorities. In1994-1998 he was Head of Public Relations, European Law Foundation (ERA) Trier / Brussels. He has also been engaged in managing and scientific jobs in the academic world. Mr. Kind holds a PhD in Communication and Linguistics, M.A. in English, French and Italian Linguistics and Literature, Certificate in Media and Mass Communication and Certificate in European Law. He also has been a project assistant at European Commission (Brussels), European Parliament (Strasbourg), United Nations Headquarter (New York), Varta South East Asia (Singapore).

Lars Kindervater, Deutsche Telekom AG, Germany Lars Kindervater joined in August 2008 Deutsche Telekom Group Headquarters’ Public & Regulatory Affairs department where he works on public and regulatory issues in a national and international context. He coordinates Deutsche Telekom’s consumer-related topics such as universal service, health & EMF, consumer rights and child safety. Before joining this position Lars Kindervater worked five years for Deutsche Telekom’s international mobile unit T-Mobile on similar subjects and two years for T-Mobile Germany. Previously Lars Kindervater was in charge of the parliamentary office of a German Member of Parliament for nearly five years on a part-time basis. Lars Kindervater has been deeply involved in his company’s child safety activities in Germany but also internationally. Among other, he led on behalf of Deutsche Telekom the negotiations on the European Safer Mobile Framework (2007), the global Mobile Alliance against Child Sexual Abuse (2008) and TeachToday.eu (2008). Lars graduated (Master of Arts) in Political Science, International Law and Modern History at the University of Bonn. Furthermore he holds a Master of European Studies of the Centre for European Integration Studies (ZEI). He is fluent in English and German.

Stephanie Kutscher, klicksafe, Germany Has Dipl. Media Science, studied Applied Media Sciences at the Technical University Ilmenau with a major in Media Communication; additional European studies; 2003 foreign study semester at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. 2003-2004 project assistance at Volkswagen Autoeuropa in Portugal; 2002–2006 academic assistant in the faculty for Empirical Media Research / Political Communication, TU Ilmenau. Since 2006 PR Officer at the Department for Media Literacy/Open Channels at the Media Authority of Rhineland- Palatinate (Landeszentrale für Medien und Kommunikation, LMK), within the EU project klicksafe.

12 13 Rafał Lew-Starowicz, Office of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, Poland Rafał Lew-Starowicz graduated from the Faculty of Journalism and Political Science of the Warsaw University. Speakers Currently, he works at the Office of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers, where he is responsible for the Team for Preventing Discrimination of Children and Youth in Electronic Media, appointed by the Government Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment. The Team consists of representatives of nearly 70 institutions, businesses, and NGOs dealing with the problem, as well as representatives of the electronic media market. Previously, within the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, he coordinated the activities of the Team for Preventing Children’s Exposure to Media Violence. He also dealt with these problems in his community work, as a councillor in the Warsaw local government. He is the author of several publications on safe use of the Internet and computers by children. Currently, he is working on his PhD thesis at the Academy of Special Pedagogy, based on comparative research of the system for protecting children against online risks in Poland and in other countries. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Pan European Game Information (PEGI), PEGI Enforcement Committee – a European classification system for computer and video games – and the Consulting Committee of the Polish Safer Internet Centre.

Olga Levina, NGO Stellit, Russia Olga Levina, Development Director of Regional Public Organization of Social Projects in Sphere of Population’s Well-Being “Stellit” and tutor at the Faculty of Psychology of St. Petersburg State University, has taken part in elaborating and realizing more than 70 social sphere projects, including those on prevention of social exclusion, and has a dozen publications to her name.

Rebecca Maier, Nummer gegen Kummer e.V., Germany Rebecca Maier (M.A.), studied education and communication science at Free University of Berlin, with a focus on media education, film and TV for children. She worked as a freelancer for children’s film festivals in Berlin and Gera. She was an assistant at Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle Fernsehen e.V. and co-author of documentation about media education in nursery and elementary school. She also has an experience as a project manager at ecmc GmbH, where she was responsible for editorial work, writing of handouts and public relations for media education projects. Rebecca Maier was a referee for initiative “parents and media” of the Media Authority of Northrhine-Westfalia (LfM). Since November 2008 has worked for Nummer gegen Kummer e.V and the project „Safer Internet“, where she is in charge of coordination of the project, development of training for multiplicators and training guidelines in cooperation with klicksafe.

Mirosław Maj, NASK, Poland Mirosław Maj has worked for NASK – the Research and Academic Computer Network – since 1995. In 1996- 1999 he was a member of the NASK Security Team. Since 1996 he has been a member of CERT Polska (the Computer Emergency Response Team), and in 2001 became the head of the team. Mirosław Maj has performed the roles of organizer and lecturer in many conferences on IT security in Poland. He has initiated an awareness portal focusing on security issues, www.cert.pl, and a platform for cooperation among security teams of Polish ISP operators and web portals. He has published several articles on IT security, especially statistics concerning security incidents and protection of critical IT infrastructures. For many years he has been actively engaged in international cooperation among incident response teams, including his roles as a many-time member of the programme committee of the FIRST (Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams) conferences and a representative of CERT Polska in TERENA’s (Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association) initiatives: TF-CSIRT and Trusted Introducer. Since 2004 Mirosław Maj has performed the role of the Polish Liaison Officer of ENISA (European Network Information Security Agency) and has been a member of ENISA’s expert group for cooperation among incident response teams such as CERT.

Thomas Michel, DLGI, Germany Since 1998 he acts as CEO of the Dienstleistungsgesellschaft für Informatik mbh – www.dlgi.de. The DLGI, “Germany‘s leading accreditation agency for IT-certification“ (Handelsblatt Magazin – junge Karriere – 2003), has successfully introduced an European IT certification standard by implementing the ECDL, the European Computer Driving Licence, in Germany and is providing its services also to Belgium. The ECDL is internationally recognised as the global benchmark for end-user computer skills and is the leading certification to be adopted by governments, international organisations and corporations alike.

Miriam Mohr, Nummer gegen Kummer e.V., Germany Miriam Mohr (Dipl. Psychologist), studied psychology at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, with a focus on clinical, occupational and organisational psychology. She had internships at the Caritas Day Centre and Outreach Clinic for Mentally Ill People and the Fliedner Hospital, in the ward for long-term withdrawal of alcohol. She is a therapist for EOS-Hospital working with stationary patients with emotional-instable personality. Since November 2008, Miriam Mohr has worked for Nummer gegen Kummer e.V. and the project “Safer Internet” together with Rebecca Maier. Furthermore, she is a freelancer at ambulant psychological practice in Altenessen in line with the advanced training to become a psychotherapist.

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dr hab. Ewa Niewiadomska-Szynkiewicz, Deputy Research Director, NASK, Poland Since 3 July 2009, Ewa Niewiadomska-Szynkiewicz Ph.D. has been Deputy Director – Research Director at NASK. Dr hab. Ewa Niewiadomska-Szynkiewicz is an associate professor in NASK, PhD in 1996, DSc in 2005. Since 2006 head of the Traffic Engineering and Network Simulation Group, R&D division, and since 3 July 2009 the Director for Research of NASK. She is also the professor and head of the Complex Systems Group at the Institute of Control and Computation Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology. She participated in a number of research projects including three European projects within TEMPUS programme and in QOSIPS project (5th FP), coordinated a number of the Groups activities, managed organisation of a number of national- level conferences. For many years she was involved in research on complex systems modelling, control and optimization, computer simulation and decision support systems. Her current interests are computer simulation, optimisation and network modelling, wireless ad hoc networks and parallel programming. She is the author and co-author of two books, one textbook for e-learning and over 100 journal and conference papers. She is a member of IEEE.

Katarzyna Nowicka, CenterNet S.A., Poland Katarzyna Nowicka is a Brand Manager at CenterNet S.A., where she is responsible for brand positioning and communication. She is a co-author of CenterNet’s social action, “My First Mobile”. Her career has been associated with the children’s market for 10 years. She contributed to the market success of Bartek – the most popular and valued children’s shoe brand in Poland. As Marketing Director, she was responsible for the development and implementation of Bartek’s marketing strategy. She is also the author of the Bartek Healthy Foot Academy – a prevention programme for children. Katarzyna Nowicka graduated from the Higher School of Management and Marketing in Warsaw and from the Brand Strategy School.

dr Jacek Pyżalski, Pedagogy Academy in Łódź, Poland Jacek Pyżalski has an MA in special pedagogy (specialty: resocialization) and a PhD in pedagogy (University of Łódź, 2002). Practitioner, carer at the Youth Educational Centre in Łódź (1998–2000). Lecturer in the Special Pedagogy Department of the Łódź University(1999–2008). Currently, he is vice president of the Higher School of Pedagogy in Łódź and a lecturer at the Institute of Occupational Medicine in Łódź – the National Centre Workplace Health Promotion, which serves as the national Contact Point of the European Centre for Workplace Health Promotion. A court mediator. The author of numerous publications in pedagogy and health promotion. Publications in Polish and English (more than 70), including thematic publications, monograph editions (including papers in foreign languages), articles, and chapters in thematic monographs. Research interests associated with such issues as discipline in the classroom and coping by teachers/educators with aggression at school; occupational stress and professional burnout; difficult behaviour of students; health promotion; and cyberbullying (currently, he is conducting a study funded by a grant awarded by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education). A co-author of a recognized tool for measuring occupational stress in teachers, the Teachers’ Occupational Stress Questionnaire (available in the Promempol data base). The author, co-executor, executor, and manager of several national and international projects, including ACERISH 2, Adult Mentoring, Dragon Fly, ROBUSD. He conducted training for academic lecturers within a programme called Europhamili, at the National School of Public Health (ENSP) in Rennes, France (2003), and delivered lectures within an exchange at the University in Orebro, Sweden. He has trained 3000 teachers and other professionals in how to deal with students’ problematic behaviour (also in cooperation with such institutions as the State Agency for Solving Alcohol Problems, the police, and provincial teacher training centres). He has been appointed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education to represent Poland in the International Committee managing the COST (European Cooperation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research) Action IS0801: Cyberbullying: coping with negative and enhancing positive uses of new technologies, in relationships in educational settings. It is a scientific consortium for prevention of cyberbullying among children and youth. Awarded by the President of the Łódź University for his teaching work (2nd degree prize) and by the World Health Organization with a team award for research in health promotion conducted at the Institute of Occupational Medicine in Łódź.

Janice Richardson, INSAFE, Belgium Janice has worked as teacher, university lecturer and consultant in Australia, France, Luxembourg and Belgium. Author of two books and many articles on the development of e-literacy, she led the Council of Europe’s editorial teams to create to create and revise its Internet Literacy Handbook (2003, 2005, 2008). Janice has been coordinator of INSAFE network since 2004.

14 15 Martyna Różycka, Dyżurnet.pl, NASK, Poland Martyna Różycka has an MA in Scientific Information and Library Science from the Warsaw University. Speakers Since graduating from the university, she has been associated with the field of children’s safety online. The author of a book titled Strony Internetowe dla dzieci i młodzieży (Websites for Children and Youth) and other publications discussing different aspects of children’s presence on the Web. Previously she worked in a PR agency, where she dealt mainly with online PR. For the past 3 years she has worked for the Safer Internet programme, especially for Dyżurnet.pl – Polish contact point which accepts reports about illegal and harmful content on the Web. She has made presentations at conferences for professionals and conducted workshops for children.

Anna Rywczyńska, Conference Vice Chair, NASK, Poland Anna Rywczyńska works in NASK as Polish Safer Internet Centre Coordinator and Public Relations Manager. Graduated from the Warsaw University, Institute of Journalism with specialization in media economics and Institute of Archaeology, Department of Historical Anthropology – Andean Archaeological Mission. She joined NASK in 2003. She has a wide experience in working on international projects, social campaigns related to Internet safety and is one of the organizers of SECURE conference – the oldest ICT security conference in Poland. Since 2007 she has been a vice chair of the international conference “Keeping Children and Young People Safe Online” organized in frames of the Saferinternet.pl project. In 2008 she cooperated with ENISA (European Network and Information Security Agency) as an expert in two working groups dedicated to awareness raising and WEB 2.0 security and privacy issues. She is a member of multi-stakeholder team launched by the Chancellery of the Prime Minister and often provides training to different groups of professionals involved in children Internet safety.

dr Veronica Samara, Saferinternet.gr, Greece Veronica Samara holds an MSc and a PhD degree in computer science from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. In the period 1988-1993, she worked in Germany at the Technical University of Darmstadt, at the company Software AG, and at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, as member of the scientific core. In the period 1993-1997, she obtained positions as project coordinator and as multimedia systems consultant in the companies Intracom, Eurocom, and Exodus, in Greece. From 1997 until 2008, she was heading the R&D department of Extreme Media Solutions Ltd, in Athens, Greece. Since 2007, Ms. Samara has been the managing director of the non-profit organisation Safer Internet Hellas, which is coordinating the Greek Safer Internet Centre. Since 1993, Ms. Samara has been working in various national and European projects, especially in the Esprit, Impact, Delta, Telematics, Acts, Leonardo da Vinci, Socrates, and IST frameworks. Since 2001, Ms. Samara and her team have been actively involved in the Safer Internet framework of the European Commission, in the projects SIFKaL, SafeBorders, SafeNetHome, SafeNetHomePlus, and now in Saferinternet.gr, implementing the Greek awareness campaign for the period 2009-2010.

Michał Serzycki, Inspector General for Personal Data Protection, Poland Michał Serzycki, who was elected for the position of a Inspector General for Personal Data Protection by the Sejm of the Republic of Poland, was sworn in on July 13th , 2006. According to the Data Protection Act he shall remain in office for the next four years from that day. Michał Serzycki was born in Warsaw on July 3rd, 1971. He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University as well as from a post- secondary teacher training college. He finished the courses qualifying the graduates for managerial positions in state administration (including the courses developing managerial capacities of civil servants), the courses for future members of supervisory boards and privatization proxies as well as the courses in the area of work organization. He is also a graduate of postgraduate studies in public administration management (a programme directed at the management) at Leon Koźmiński Academy of Entrepreneurship and Management. Michał Serzycki started his professional career at the National Disabled Persons Rehabilitation Fund, where he held managerial positions. At the same time he was a member of supervisory bodies of different companies and commercial law partnerships. From December 2002 to the moment of the election for the position of the Inspector General for Personal Data Protection he was a Deputy Mayor of the district Wola in Warsaw.

Gabrielle Shaw, CEOP, United Kingdom Gabrielle Shaw joined the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre in February 2008 as the Head of International and Relations. This role is a diverse and challenging one and includes leading on the child protection work for G8, chairing and taking forward the work of the European Financial Coalition, working with such bodies as the UN and overseeing the work of the Virtual Global Taskforce – an international alliance of law enforcement agencies. Child sexual exploitation is a borderless crime and therefore international links are crucial to every area of CEOP’s business. As such, Gabrielle’s role is pivotal – creating and maintaining relationships with law enforcement agencies, governing bodies and charities internationally, bidding for funding from various sources such as the EU to take forward work to combat this crime worldwide and to raise general awareness of the work of CEOP. As well as her international work, Gabrielle is also Staff Officer for the ACPO Child Abuse Investigations Working Group and has recently led on a review of the child protection portfolios. Gabrielle also deputises for the Head of the Harm Reduction Faculty at CEOP.

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Marcin Sołodki, Nobody’s Children Foundation, Poland Marcin Sołodki is a graduate of the Cybernetics Faculty of the Military University of Technology, and the Academy of Special Education (pedagogical skills – computer support for the teaching process). He comes from Bartoszyce – a small town in the north of Poland, where together with his friends from high school, he established the “LIFT” radio station. For a few years, he produced and led radio shows for the young people, and most of the events organized for both the younger and older residents of Bartoszyce. His professional interests have focused, for many years, on e-learning, distance learning and mobile-learning – he is involved in educational projects in commercial companies, as well as in the non-government sector. He develops e-learning platforms, as well as courses for adults, children and young people. In the Nobody’s Children Foundation, he coordinates the Sieciaki.pl (Web Kids) project – working on distance education of children in the field of Internet security. He writes articles for children’s magazines.

Dariusz Stachecki, Szołdrski Junior High School in Nowy Tomyśl, Poland Dariusz Stachecki graduated from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and from a postgraduate school of information technology and education management. IT teacher at a junior high school and a junior IT college. Deputy director of the Szołdrski Junior High School in Nowy Tomyśl. Organizer of National Conferences for School Computer Network Administrators KASSK in Nowy Tomyśl, ECD and ECDL Advanced examiner, OKE examiner, instructor at Cisco IT Academy, trainer of the Polish Foundation for Computer Literacy, Apple Distinguished Educator, member of the Polish Information Technology Society. Dariusz Stachecki has dealt with computer education at school since 1991. He has promoted the idea of using information and communication technologies at school. He has worked for safe school computer networks and improving children and young people’s safety on the Internet, taking an active part in various initiatives and campaigns, e.g., Safer Internet Day or Stop Cyberbullying. He conducts training for teachers, administrators of Internet Multimedia Information Centres, and administrators of computer rooms. He has initiated many initiatives for implementing technology in education, school computerization, and creating/ developing school technology infrastructures. Since 2006 he has been engaged in the e-School Wielkopolska programme.

Zuzanna Staniewicz, Orange Foundation, Poland Zuzanna is Coordinator of Educational Programmes at Orange Foundation (previously TP Group Foundation) and has been implementing educational programmes related to the Internet since 2003. At the Orange Foundation she is responsible for the following programmes: – Education with TP Internet – a social programme aimed at increasing the use of the Internet among Polish schools and raising awareness of the rules of safe Internet use. – School without Violence – a project implemented in cooperation with publishing groups Polskapresse and Media Regionalne, aimed at reducing violence in Polish schools through raising public awareness of the problem, changing attitudes toward violence, and providing schools with specific support and tools to combat the problem effectively and systematically.

Lidia Stępińska-Ustasiak, UPC, Poland On 2 January 2008 Lidia Stępińska-Ustasiak joined the PR team operating within the UPC Poland Communications and Public Affairs Department, which acts in the field of media relations and implements social programs targeted at counteracting technological exclusion, such as „UPC e-Senior Academy” and „UPC e-Safety Academy”. In UPC Lidia Stępińska-Ustasiak is responsible for the company’s activity in the field of outside communications and media relations. Lidia Stępińska-Ustasiak has 11 years of experience in public relations. She graduated from the Applied Social Studies Department of the Warsaw University and the Social Studies Department of the Centre for Social Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences. Until December 2007 she worked for PTK Centertel (Orange), at the position of a communications manager. She was gaining her professional experience, inter alia, in Amica Wronki, as well as in Polish and international PR agencies. Stępińska-Ustasiak hosts a PR on the Web course at the Postgraduate PR College (Warsaw School of Economics).

Maciej Stencel, Netia S.A., Poland Since 2008, Maciej Stencel is a project manager at the Department of Management and Product Development HOME and SOHO/SME at Netia S.A. As the project manager at Netia, he deals mainly with safety in the Internet; he has initiated and participated in many projects related to the web safety. For example, he leads and manages the Safe Internet project, under which Netia, as one of the first operators, received a certificate “Safe Internet” from the Electronic Communications Office. He independently conducts and coordinates educational meetings for primary school students, promoting safety in the Internet among the youngest ones.

16 17 Jakub Śpiewak, Kidprotect.pl Foundation, Instytut-Ekspertyz.pl, Poland Jakub Śpiewak is an educator and sociologist. He began his professional career as a journalist (e.g. The Speakers Warsaw Voice). Later he run his own PR and advertising agency, and worked as a music manager and university lecturer, teaching crisis management. In 2002 he established the Kidprotect.pl Foundation, the first Polish NGO specializing in safe Internet use, combating child pornography and paedophilia, and supporting adults who were sexually abused as children. He is Vice President of the “Children Under Protection” Agreement, a member of the Team for Combating Children’s Discrimination in Mass Media at the Office of the Prime Minister, and a grant holder and member of Ashoka, an international association of social innovators; Ashoka’s grants are often called “the social Nobel Prize”. Privately, he loves music and novels by W.E.B. Griffin.

dr Michel Walrave, University of Antwerp, Belgium Michel Walrave is associate professor at the Department of Communication Studies of the University of Antwerp and leads the Research Group MIOS (Media & ICT in Organisations & Society). His field of expertise is situated in the area of societal implications of ICT. He has conducted several national and European research projects on teens & ICT, e-working, e-government, e-marketing & privacy. Recently the research project teens & ICT, risks & opportunities was finalized analyzing a.o. Internet use, cyberbullying, online self-disclosure and other Internet related risks. He teaches societal implications of ICT, marketing communications and e-marketing at the University of Antwerp and as a guest lecturer in several other universities. More info: http://www.ua.ac.be/michel.walrave

Julia von Weiler, Innocence in Danger, Germany Julia von Weiler studied Psychology at New York University and the Free University, Berlin. During her studies in New York she interned at the ‘Children’s Safety Project’ in New York City, where she provided support for abused children. From 1992 to 1994 she worked as a pedagogue in the ‘Mädchenvilla’, the first residential project of its kind in Germany for abused girls aged 4 to 14, which was situated in Beckum. She was a board member of its supporting association from 1993 to 2000. In the period 1999-2002, Julia von Weiler provided counselling for sexually abused girls and boys as well as their guardians in a counselling drop-in centre in Cologne. Until 2007 she then headed the psychology department at the ‘Kind in Düsseldorf’ gGmbH, a diagnostic and therapeutic institution for providing in-patient treatment for abused children aged 3 to 12 (www.kid-facheinrichtung.de). Since 2003 she has been director of ‘Innocence in Danger e.V.’, the German section of an international network working against sexual abuse, which is particularly committed to preventing the spread of child abusive images through the internet (www.innocenceindanger.de)

Marta Wojtas, Helpline.org.pl, Nobody’s Children Foundation, Poland For the last several years, Marta Wojtas has been working in the field of psychological assistance and interventions for children – victims of crimes. She currently works at the FDN as consultant of Helpline.org.pl Before that, she also worked on a pilot program of the Ministry of Justice, regarding assistance for victims of crimes. She organized and delivered a number of trainings and seminars for children, young people and professionals – teachers, school counselors and the police – in the area of preventing violence, prevention of addictions, and development of social skills. In the years 2003-2006, she worked as academic teacher at the Świętokrzyska Academy in Kielce. She also worked in the area of psychology and pedagogical counseling. She is a psychologist, graduate of the Łódź University. She has pedagogical qualifications; and graduated also from an intra-cultural communications program at the Tampere University in Finland.

Łukasz Wojtasik, Nobody’s Children Foundation, Poland A graduate from the Institute of Social Prevention and Resocialization at the Warsaw University. He has worked for the Nobody’s Children Foundation since 1997, taking part in numerous projects addressing the problem of child abuse. Since 2002 he has conducted training on child abuse on the Internet. He was the author of the first national campaign focused on children’s safety online, “Child on the Web” (“You Never Know Who Is on the Other Side”, 2005), and the initiator of several other projects addressing the issue of safe Internet use by children, including Sieciaki.pl (2005) and “Stop Cyberbullying” (2007). The author of research, publications, and lesson plans concerning the problem of online threats to children. One of the initiators of the European programme “Safer Internet” in Poland (the national coordinator of the Saferinternet.pl project in 2005–2006). Since 2006 he has coordinated the Academy of Safer Internet – the Nobody’s Children Foundation’s comprehensive programme aimed at improving children’s safety online. A member of the Chapter of the Interklasa Quality Certificate. He also represents the Nobody’s Children Foundation in the Team for Preventing Discrimination of Children in Electronic Media in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister.

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Agnieszka Wrzesień, Conference Chair, Nobody’s Children Foundation, Poland Agnieszka Wrzesień since 2005 has been working in the Nobody’s Children Foundation (NCF), as the Project Coordinator of the Saferinternet.pl project, which promotes safe and effective use of the Internet and new technologies. Agnieszka has wide working experience in the international environment. She is the Polish representative in the INSAFE network Steering Committee and sits on the International Advisory Panel for the “EU Kids Online” research project. She has been involved in several international projects on children and the Internet, such as Youth Protection Roundtable and eNACSO (European NGO Alliance for Child Safety Online) within which she is responsible for network development strategy and sits on the Management Committee. Agnieszka Wrzesień is the main organizer and chair of the International Conferences “Keeping Children and Young People Safe Online” which are held annually in Warsaw by the Polish Safer Internet Centre. She is the author of various articles on Internet safety education and provides training courses to law enforcement and different groups of professionals working with children. She is the member of the Polish multi-stakeholder Taskforce on child protection in electronic media, established within the Chancellery of the Prime Minister. She has been also involved in Internet Governance issues and participates annually in the UN Internet Governance Forum; she is one of the alumni of the Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme organised by the DiploFoundation, and the European Summer School on Internet Governance. Agnieszka Wrzesień graduated in International Relations (MA with honours) and Cultural Studies from the Warsaw University; she also studied at the University of Tampere in Finland. Prior to joining NCF she had several short-term assignments with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Embassy of Poland in Costa Rica and the Info Point at the EC Delegation in Poland.

Katarzyna Zygmunt-Hernandez, Nobody’s Children Foundation, Poland She graduated from the Faculty of Pedagogy at Warsaw University; she also studied at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. As a student she took active part in the projects for the development of cultural programmes directed at the difficult youth. She co-operated with the organization UNICEF in Ecuador, where she acquired experience at working with children and young people in the area of education and social prevention. She was also in charge of a PR department in one of Ecuadorian production companies. She has worked for the Nobody´s Children Foundation for over one year, where she is a PR specialist under the project Saferinternet.pl.

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John Carr, eNACSO & CHIS, United Kingdom 29 September, Tuesday, 9.15-10.00 Plenary session: Influencing the political agenda In many countries the Internet and its associated technologies are still thought of as being “new”. Levels of usage and penetration may only now be starting to reach a substantial proportion of the population and therefore are only just starting to register in an important way on wider public life. The Internet industry has been the major driver pushing the development of technology in Europe. That is of course how it should be in many respects, but there also needs to be a robust, countervailing balance to speak up for what is sometimes the wider public interest. The policy-making community still has some catching up to do. It is particularly important for those concerned with child welfare and child protection to engage in those key processes which shape, and in the end determine, public policy. The task is to influence the direction of public policy and the policy of the Internet industry. Enlightened and progressive elements within the Internet industry fully understand this and are keen to engage. They understand the benefit to them and their businesses of being able to learn from the expertise of professionals who work with children and young people. No two countries are alike. Each country has its own way of doing things, its own political institutions and personalities, its own political parties, different media outlets and so on. Everyone has to find their own path. In the UK, as another General Election approaches, the Children’s Charities’ Coalition on Internet Safety (CHIS) has produced its “Digital Manifesto”. This is the third such document we have produced. The first appeared before the election in 2001, the second before the election in 2005. These documents have become both milestones and important reference points by which we can judge the success of our overall campaigning and lobbying efforts.

Jakub Boratyński, DG JLS, European Commission 29 September, Tuesday, 10.00-10.30 Plenary session: Shaping EU legislation against Internet-related child sexual abuse The European Commission has been pursuing a policy for combating cyber crime in close cooperation with EU member states and other public and private partners. In 2007, the Commission presented this policy in detail in a communication called “Towards a general policy for combating cyber crime”. The Commission set itself priorities for combating Internet content referring to sexual violence against children, thwarting large-scale attacks on information systems and taking action to prevent identity theft. This policy has been recently reinforced in a new multiannual programme entitled ‘An area of freedom, security and justice serving the citizen’ (also Stockholm Programme). (COM (2009) 262 final) Firstly, the Commission participates in the legislative process. Among the most important legislative measures related to sexual exploitation of children is the Council’s Framework Decision on combating the sexual exploitation of children and child pornography. In March 2009, the Commission submited a proposal to improve and lend force to the content of the Framework Decision by raising the level of child protection in the EU to the highest standards. Secondly, the Commission strongly encourages cross-border cooperation among EU law enforcement agencies, particularly regarding information exchange and joint investigations. A recent example of this is a European alert platform for Internet-related offences that will enable pooling reports of crime committed in different EU Member States on the Internet, such as posting of illegal content. Thirdly, the Commission supports cooperation between the public and the private sector. Specific proposals to this end were approved by the Council of Ministers for Home Affairs in the form of Council conclusions in November 2008. One of the proposals promotes training in investigating cyber crime. The Commission is in the process of setting up a European training platform in partnership with the Member States, Europol and CEPOL. Another important public-private initiative is the European Financial Coalition against against commercial child sexual abuse material online. The aim of the Coalition is to combine the efforts of the various public or private parties concerned to combat the production, distribution and sale of child pornography images on the Internet, ensuring profit-making is more difficult whilst locating and arresting the criminals concerned. Lastly, the Commission can also draw upon several financial programmes to support the practical implementation of its policy priorities, such as ‘Safer Internet’ and ‘Prevention of and Fight against Crime’.

prof. Julia Davidson, Kingston University, United Kingdom 29 September, Tuesday, 10.30-11.00 Plenary session: Using Internet Offenders Accounts to Inform Young People’s Online Safety Practices The Internet is used by some adults to access children and young people in order to groom them for the purposes of sexual abuse. MySpace have recently expelled 29,000 suspected sex offenders and has been sued in the by parents who claim that their children were contacted by sex offenders on the site and consequently abused. The Internet also plays a

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role in facilitating the production and distribution of indecent illegal images of children, which may encourage and complement online grooming. Child grooming is a process that commences with sex offenders choosing an Internet target area that is likely to attract children. A process of grooming then commences when offenders take a particular interest in the child and interact with them with the intention of preparation for abuse (approaches can however be much more direct). The Internet has greatly facilitated this process in the virtual world. Offenders can now seek out young people via online games and social networking sites. Child sex offenders are forming online communities and bonds using the Internet. This paper draws upon recent research and police case studies in exploring what is known about Internet sex offender behaviour and considers how information about offender’s modus operandi might be used to inform safety programmes and practices with young people. dr Zoë Hilton, eNACSO & NSPCC, United Kingdom 29 September, Tuesday, 11.30-12.00 Plenary session: Using blocking to combat online child abuse images: necessary protection or unjustified restriction? Child abuse images (‘child pornography’) are a visual record of the sexual abuse of a child. Child abuse material has rapidly increased in prevalence on the Internet, and the severity of the abuse shown in the images is worsening. Sexual abuse can have a devastating effect on children and can impact on people throughout their lives. When images of the abuse are put on the Internet, and may be replicated and downloaded an unlimited number of times, this knowledge has an additional effect on the victims involved. Blocking is a means of disrupting child abuse image distribution and viewing. It involves Internet Service Providers (ISPs) using technologies to ‘block’ sites known to contain child abuse images. This means that anyone accessing the Internet through that ISP cannot view sites containing child abuse images which are blocked, whichever country the sites are based in. Where they exist, blocking mechanisms function on a national basis and differ from country to country. This presentation will explain why children’s rights and child protection NGOs are calling for access to child abuse material to be blocked. The presentation will explain how blocking works, and the key arguments in favour of blocking in helping to tackle the sexual abuse and exploitation of children worldwide. It will look in detail at some of the debates and will also examine some specific advocacy work undertaken by the NSPCC and eNACSO. The presentation will also examine some of the other actions that are also urgently needed in order to effectively tackle the proliferation of child abuse content in the online environment.

Gabrielle Shaw, Child Exploitation and Online Protection Center, United Kingdom 29 September, Tuesday, 12.00-12.25 Plenary session: Case studies of European cooperation in combating child sexual abuse This ‘Keeping Children and Young People Safe Online’ international conference represents an important opportunity for experts in this arena to share best practice, expertise and knowledge. In keeping with that aim, this presentation will focus on practical case studies which demonstrate the significant levels of cooperation which exist on a European level to combat child sexual abuse. The first case study will examine the new initiative planned by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre in the United Kingdom, supported by the UK’S Foreign and Commonwealth Office and VISA Europe, to form a South Eastern European Advisory Panel. This will build on our experience gained with our CEOP Advisory Panels in various Asian countries; the aim of these Advisory Panels is to create an informed group to act as a critical and constructive friend to ensure that the activity undertaken by CEOP is aimed at reducing harm to children in that particular country which is caused / influenced by UK sex offenders. CEOP is committed to working with the Advisory Panels to ensure that our work remains relevant, focused and effective, cognisant of the particular issues in each country. The second case study in this presentation will focus on the European Financial Coalition (EFC). The EFC began on 1 July 2009 and is majority-funded by the European Commission. It is a multi-stakeholder initiative, led by CEOP, and is designed to combat the commercial sale and distribution of child abuse images. The EFC is unique in its partnership approach, uniting as it does law enforcement, payment service providers, industry, NGOs and others. We are actively seeking to raise awareness of the EFC across Europe and to let organisations know how they can become involved in this important piece of work. dr Jacek Pyżalski, Pedagogy Academy in Łódź, Poland 29 September, Tuesday, 12.25-12.50 Plenary session: Not only cyberbullying – experiences of Polish adolescents with electronic aggression The presentation will be based on the data gathered with a questionnaire study on the sample of 710 Polish adolescents. The tool used in the referred study was the Lodz Electronic Aggression Questionnaire. It enables to explore the involvement of respondents in 20 behavioral kinds of electronic aggression as a victim and a perpetrator. Separately the issue of a 20 21 victim identity is explored (taking into account their relations with a perpetrator). Based on this different types of electronic 29 September, Tuesday aggression are defined and described, e.g. aggression against the vulnerable (alcoholics, mentally-retarded, etc.). Abstracts, Much focus was put on peer aggression (cyberbullying) and the factors influencing it, such as dysfunctional usage of communication technologies in general.

dr Michel Walrave, University of Antwerp, Belgium 29 September, Tuesday, 12.50-13.15 Plenary session: E-marketing, privacy and teenagers When chatting and browsing, teenagers can be inclined or encouraged to disclose personal data. Despite the growing concerns about the online privacy of minors and some legislative initiatives, few empirical studies have examined teens’ responses to online requests for personal data. Therefore, this presentation will focus on research results concerning adolescents’ disclosure of personal data. Furthermore, techniques and strategies used to stimulate young people to disclose personal information will be outlined. Finally, recommendations and several initiatives concerning privacy awareness raising, will be discussed.

Discussion panel: Blocking illegal content on the Internet – the role of ISPs September, Tuesday, 14.45-17.00 Moderator: Mirosław Maj, NASK, Poland As the problem of illegal Internet content gains in importance, the debate concerning the means aimed at limiting that phenomenon is developing too. It has become evident in the course of that fight that actions need to be undertaken to eliminate illegal websites from the Internet. Actions of this type have to been carried out mainly through a network of the so- called hotlines. Practice indicates, however, that despite being incredibly important and useful, such actions prove to be by far insufficient. Therefore, discussions concerning other methods that can be applied are so crucial. As it is always the case with safety-related discussions, the question concerning the role of telecommunications operators arises. They certainly have a great impact on what is going on the Web, but on the other hand, an argument is voiced frequently that it is not their role to decide about the quality of Internet content. They are only tasked with ensuring proper functioning of the Web from the technical point of view, without assessing its content. This is definitely just the beginning of a discussion “whether and what operators should do on the Web to limit illegal content?”. As a matter of fact, certain decisions in that field have already been made in many countries. Operators in Italy, Great Britain, Germany and Scandinavian states have become involved in filtering the Web content. The question remains what illegal content should be filtered out? Child pornography only, or perhaps other types of content as well (e.g. those promoting totalitarian regimes or xenophobic behaviors)? And if so, will we be dealing with ? One may ask many questions of this type. We will be trying to answer them during the conference, or we will at least discuss the most important issues, hoping that the discussion will bring us closer to effective and efficient solutions improving the safety of the Internet’s youngest users.

Siegfried Czernohorsky, Ministry of Education, Science, Youth and Culture Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany 29 September, Tuesday, 14.45-17.00 Parallel session: Internet safety at schools Presentation topic: Challenges, aims and strategies in education The rapid changes on the Internet and in Web 2.0 increasingly present education systems, schools and all people involved with new challenges. Which contribution can education and schooling make to critical reflection, to effective prevention, to the support of key competence of young people and to the qualification of teachers and parents? In this presentation, basic considerations will be discussed and case studies from the educational everyday life in Germany introduced.

Dariusz Stachecki, F. Szołdrski Junior High School in Nowy Tomyśl, Poland 29 September, Tuesday, 14.45-17.00 Parallel session: Internet safety at schools Presentation topic: Internet safety standards for school informatics infrastructure The use of new technologies has become an inherent part of today’s school. We have to remember that young people we work with are “digital natives” – they use technology on a daily basis, treating it as a source of knowledge, learning, entertainment, and communication. To be authentic in this process, the teacher needs to use the same communication channels that are perceived by young people as trustworthy, attractive, and adequate. Today, it is just impossible to teach in any other way. Keeping this in mind, we try to provide young people with the broadest possible access to information and communication technologies. Today, school computer rooms do not surprise anyone in Poland, and computerized libraries and the use of new technologies during classes other than IT have become common. Computers ensure fast access to information, make classes more attractive, and make teaching more effective, appealing, and interesting. There

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are more and more devices that perform increasingly diverse functions. In this technological school reality we have to devote much attention to ensuring that the content available on the Internet is reliable and appropriate, and that the use of communication devices at school is safe. Each school and educational institution should have its own safety policy associated with the operation of the IT structure, similarly to various business organizations and workplaces. On the one hand, there should be safety rules concerning hardware, its optimal use and maintenance to guarantee high functionality of the entire infrastructure. On the other hand, the safety policy should ensure secure use of the school network by its users. This includes both the principles of safe and hygienic work, and the rules of moral security, i.e. such access to information that does not pose the risk of exposure to undesirable content or depravation and protects users’ privacy. Such policies should be also effective in preventing any attempts to use the network devices and resources for cyberbullying.

Anna Borkowska, Methodological Centre for Pedagogical and Psychological Help Poland 29 September, Tuesday, 14.45-17.00 Parallel session: Internet safety at schools Presentation topic: School system of cyberbullying prevention The Internet and mobile networks have become, over the past decade, one of the most popular media among the young. They are perceived as the favorite form of spending free time, communicating and seeking information. It is more and more often the case that modern technologies become the primary environment in which young people may satisfy their social needs related to being part of a group of peers. Unfortunately, information and communication technologies are also used as a tool for peer aggression and violence. Research indicates that cyber violence is widely spread in schools, and the number of children who have come across the problem may be as high as half of the total number of students. At the same time, many teachers and parents are unaware of the scale of the problem, for the incidents usually go unreported to adults. And every case of behavior that may be classified as cyber violence requires the reaction of adults. Disclosing a case of cyber violence requires that schools undertake specific intervention measures. Therefore, one of the priority actions taken by the school is to prepare and implement an intervention algorithm, taking into consideration the school’s needs and its reality. The procedure shown in the presentation lists the principles that need to be followed by the school staff if a case of cyber violence is identified. It serves as a hint as to how and when the teachers (the headmaster) should react and how they should handle the victims, culprits and witnesses, as well as how they should cooperate with the parents thereof.

Hana Hrpka, Brave Phone, Croatia 29 September, Tuesday, 14.45-17.00 Parallel session: Internet safety at schools Presentation topic: Prevention of violence against children through Internet in Croatia In 2004, Brave Phone in cooperation with Center for Child Protection Zagreb has conducted a research about children’s experience while surfing on the Internet. Based of its results, Brave Phone started implementing project Safer Internet – Prevention of Violence Against Children trough Internet. In 2008, the same two organizations conducted very similar research about children and youth experiences in using modern technologies. Results of this research indicate that 91% of pupils are users of the Internet and also that 49% of them are using the Internet every day; 49% of pupils are without supervision of adults while they spent time on the Internet; 46% of them declare that their parents are sometimes present; 54% of them encounter on a web site which implicated photos of naked person or person in sexual contact, without pupils wanted to see this type of material. In 2008, Brave Phone as a Unicef Croatia partner, organized a campaign with purpose of prevention of cyberbullying called „Break the chain”. Within this campaign Brave Phone assured telephone counseling for children and adults with problems of cyberbullying. Also, the brochures about the Internet safety were provided for every interested individual and organization. Focus of preventive project Safer Internet is to inform and consult children about safe and positive ways of surfing the Internet. It also involves parents with dilemmas about how to act in cases of exposed child to violence on the Internet or how to set up the rules for surfing the web. Main goal of the project is to provide adequate and practical information for children and parents about methods of using the Internet safely and efficient ways of protection from online violence. Project also includes a distribution of brochures (especially brochure “Child on the Internet” and flyer «”Internet”) which are intended for children, parents and professionals who work with children. The results of these activities are awareness of children and their parents about available resources, improved protection of children from abuse, modified children’s behaviors towards using contemporary medias, increasing number of revealed and registered cases of violence through the Internet and increasing number of children who are feeling protected and safe. Children and parents are also informed about points where they can obtain expert’s help and support.

22 23 Lidia Stępińska-Ustasiak, UPC, Poland Abstracts, 29 September, Tuesday 29 September, Tuesday, 14.45-17.00 Parallel session: Internet safety at schools Presentation topic: Safe children – educated parents – UPC educational programme for adults, teachers, scouts UPC Polska, the leading triple service provider (digital television, Internet and landline telephony) has been implementing, since 2008, a social educational program concerned with the safety of children and youths on the Web. The „e-Safety Academy” is targeted for the parents, teachers, tutors and librarians. It is in agreement with the company’s mission – „For Everyone. It’s simple.” In 2009 UPC conducted, in cooperation with Wydawnictwo Szkolne PWN, a workshop for primary and junior high school IT teachers from seven Polish voivodeships. Good reception of the workshop as well as very favorable opinions expressed by its participants have encouraged the company to share its knowledge and experience on a wider scale. UPC signed an agreement with ZHP, Poland’s largest volunteer organization, under which the company has trained ZHP’s instructors, making available its own teaching method, educational materials (“Web safety. Basics for the entire family”) and made available, to ZHP, UPC’s Internet access facilities in nine Polish cities. The program of cooperation between UPC and ZHP has been praised by Mrs. Anna Streżyńska, Chairwoman of the Office of Electronic Communications, who has extended her patronage over the campaign. The “Web safety. Basics for the entire family” publications by UPC and INSAFE were handed over, free of charge, to several dozen school throughout Poland. The books are used to train the teachers, tutors and parents. In the framework of cooperation with Wydawnictwo Szkolne PWN, the brochure’s electronic version in the form of a newsletter was sent to more than ten thousand primary and junior high school teachers. UPC has also created a universal website, where each Internet user may learn the crucial information concerning Web safety, download – free of charge – the “Web safety...” book, and find out where to look for help and support in difficult situations concerning improper Internet content or behaviors. All of UPC’c efforts, which are carried out with the well-being and the safety of the company’s customers taking advantage of its Internet provision services, have been awarded with the country’s first Safer Internet Certificate granted by the Office of Electronic Communications.

Jutta Croll, Stiftung Digitalle Chancen, Germany 29 September, Tuesday, 14.45-17.00 Parallel session: Responding to online risks Presentation topic: Youth Protection Roundtable The Internet should be a tool for gathering knowledge and information as well as for entertainment for users of all age groups. But nowadays more and more people are afraid of encountering unwanted and harmful content instead of useful information while being online. A combination of technical tools with increased effectiveness and approved educational measures seems to be the solution. To develop the ideal mix of both there is a need for collaboration between specialists from the technical side and experts from the pedagogical side. Therefore at the Youth Protection Roundtable relevant players worked together at five bi-annual international meetings within the project’s duration of 30 months, from November 2006 till April 2009. Considering the various cultural backgrounds of European countries, the activities emphasised the following elements: • facilitate and coordinate the exchange of views between technical experts and children’s welfare specialists • find a common language • conducting a survey on matters of youth protection online and safer Internet • enable technicians to take account of the potential effects of newly developed technologies on their safe use by children • improve the usability of filtering technologies • provide European parents and educators with the information necessary to decide on appropriate content in accordance with their cultural values • motivate children’s welfare experts to include consultation on supportive technologies into their portfolio • identify good practise approaches • At the Youth Protection Roundtable: youth protection online was defined • different viewpoints of technicians and welfare experts were identified • a common view on risks and measures was developed • technical tools for youth protection were identified and reviewed with regard to their effectiveness a new approach to digital literacy was elaborated with input from young people themselves, and an European approach on shared responsibility for youth protection online was developed and eventually adopted

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While many fruitful and distinct ideas have blossomed at the Youth Protection Roundtable, one overarching goal was to develop a common strategy embedded in the cultural situation to prevent children and youths from encountering unwanted and harmful content while using the Internet. This goal was achieved by delivering: • YPRT Principles for the improvement of youth protection online: eight principles to which the YPRT members commit themselves and declare their intent to co-operate on their implementation and dissemination • YPRT Toolkit, a detailed catalogue of references for the improvement of youth protection online.

Marta Wojtas, Helpline.org.pl, Nobody’s Children Foundation, Poland 29 September, Tuesday, 14.45-17.00 Parallel session: Responding to online risks Presentation topic: Children’s exposure to harmful content In the virtual world young users have access to a large amount of valuable information which may help them to broaden their knowledge about the world. However, there is also information that distorts the reality, disturbs its perception, and may have negative effects on the young user’s development. Child Internet users often engage in very dangerous situations. It is difficult for them to identify harmful content. Most parents who feel responsible for the use of new technologies by their children, express concerns about children’s exposure to pornographic material. Such images, however, are just one kind of content which may have negative effects on a young user and can be encountered on the Web by sheer chance. “Harmful content” is a very broad term. Apart from pornography, it refers to materials that promote racism and xenophobia, support fascism or any other totalitarian system, incite to crime or other forms of antisocial behaviour, encourage young people to self-destructive behaviour, or include violence, obscene language, and elements of psychomanipulation. For two years Helpline’org.pl has provided help for the youngest Internet users who encounter dangerous situations while using new technologies. Among other reports, we have accepted many reports about children’s contact with harmful content online. So far, we have been told about several hundred situations of harmful information, videos or images being presented to children and young people on the Web. In many cases the victims needed support and psychological help because such materials had exerted a strong negative influence on their psychological health. Unfortunately, not all harmful materials available on the Internet are in conflict with the letter of the law, which does not make them any less dangerous for children. Some of them are commonly regarded as a norm in the virtual environment, which makes users less alert and more vulnerable to harmful messages. The goal of this presentation is to show examples of such dangerous materials and their negative effects on children and young people, based on the experience gathered by Helpline.org.pl.

Katarzyna Fenik, Helpline.org.pl, Nobody’s Children Foundation, Poland 29 September, Tuesday, 14.45-17.00 Parallel session: Responding to online risks Presentation topic: Internet addictions Is it good for children to spend time in front of the computer? How much time can they spend in this way without getting ad- dicted to using the Internet or computer itself? The problem of Internet addiction has been reported to the team of Helpline. org.pl with an increasing frequency. In most cases it is reported by children who identify their own problem and seek solu- tions. They can see that while initially they overused the Internet just to rival their peers in their knowledge of computer games, the scope of activities they perform by use of the computer has been gradually increasing and takes more and more time. Jacek, a boy of 14, told Helpline.org.pl’s consultant: “If you ask me how much time I spend with the computer, I can’t tell you because I can’t remember when I sat down at it – I guess, a day before yesterday”. Young people tell the consultants about how they try to limit the time spent in front of the computer and how they fail. They describe symptoms of addiction – emotion- al problems, difficulties in their relationships with parents and peers. As professionals we know how important to is to provide quick help for young people in such cases. Unfortunately, there are no institutions in Poland dealing with such problems.

Rebecca Maier & Miriam Mohr, Nummer gegen Kummer e.V., Germany 29 September, Tuesday, 14.45-17.00 Parallel session: Responding to online risks Presentation topic: Training counsellors about online risks Founded in 1980, the organisation Nummer gegen Kummer e.V. (NgK) offers the largest telephone counselling service for children and adolescents in Germany. It is anonymous and free of charge. At the helpline callers can talk about any question, problem or critical situation that is of interest and need for them, no matter which topic. NgK aims at being first contact point for all matters and wants to lead the way to further assistance to prevent questions and concerns from developing into larger problems. Currently NgK

24 25 has 110 member organisations nation-wide that offer regional helplines for children (92) and parents (45). Topics that are most 29 September, Tuesday frequently mentioned are e.g. “first love”, “sexuality”, “friendship” or “problems with peers”. As partner in the German Combined Abstracts, Node “Saferinternet DE” and within the EU „Safer Internet Programme“, NgK now also trains their counsellors about online risks and children’s questions on the use of online technologies. This way, NgK has the option to meet upcoming requirements. Starting in 2010, the helpline will be communicated as contact point for distress and worries about problems that result from daily use of internet technologies. Therefore main topics in the field of “Safer Internet” have to be implemented in the general qualification of all of the 3500 volunteer counsellors. Since June the counsellors are being trained on how to grant relief on problems that occur as a result of media use. During a three-day training the counsellors learn about Youth Protection in the Media in Germany, about social networks, cyber-mobbing, pornography or sex presented in the Internet, self-destructive behaviour and its presentation in forums or on homepages. In the session, examples are given for counselling situations, e.g concerning cyber-mobbing, consumption of pornography, online-games, sites about eating disorder or suicide web forums. The training-concept – developed and performed in cooperation with klicksafe – will be presented and examples on how to help in counselling are given.

Olga Levina, NGO Stellit, Russia 29 September, Tuesday, 14.45-17.00 Parallel session: Responding to online risks Presentation topic: Protection of and rehabilitation of victims of online sexual abuse in Russia The use of the Internet in the Russian Federation is rapidly growing during the past ten years. In the period from 2000 to 2007 the Internet usage growth in the Russian Federation has composed 848 % and among the advantages problems and challenges are also seen. In 2007 ECPAT International initiated a study that was conducted in the frameworks of the project “Regional overview on Child Sexual Images through the Use of ICT”. The project was realized in four countries (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova) and NGO “Stellit”, an affiliate group of the ECPAT network, represented the Russian team. The research has demonstrated that in Russia, although the investigation and prosecution of cases of production and distribution of child pornography is in some cases quite successful, there are still problems that interfere with the maximum effectiveness. The first problem is the lack of human and technical resources. The second problem is the lack of child friendly procedures during the investigation and the court hearing. The research also demonstrated that the general trends in the countries are quite similar. The distribution of child abuse images in the region has benefited from the rapid development of the Internet, which provides opportunities for wider dissemination of these materials with limited risk due to the relative anonymity, imperfections of the legislation and difficulties in enforcing the laws. In addition to the existing challenges new dangers connected with the development of wireless communication were identified. A more collaborative approach between the various stakeholders was seen crucial to ensure child protection in the region. On the basis of the working experience and the research results NGO “Stellit” has prepared recommendations, including the most important aspects of primary, secondary and tertiary prevention, work with the public opinion and the emerging needs of the child protection system.

Julia von Weiler, Innocence in Danger, Germany 29 September, Tuesday, 14.45-17.00 Parallel session: Responding to online risks Presentation topic: Treatment of Child-Victims of Pornographic Exploitation in Germany Internet as well as cell phones provide a great platform to distribute abusive images of an ongoing sexual abuse (contact offence) distribute sexually explicit contents between adolescents get in touch with adolescents and manipulating them into posing in front of a webcam, etc. Online distribution of abusive images has risen dramatically over the past years. Many questions arise: Who are the victims we see in these images? How do we find them and how do we treat them once they are identified? From October 2004 until September 2007 Innocence in Danger questioned all specialized institutions nationwide dealing with sexual abused children with in order to gain a first status quo concerning the issue of working with victims of child-pornographic exploitation and also touched online distribution of these abusive images. Findings regard 245 cases of child pornographic exploitation (197 girls, 48 boys) and 280 suspected cases of child pornographic exploitation. Profes- sionals reported that cases of CPE are of a higher complexity, more demanding for professionals and raise many questions as to how to deal with them on a professional level – i.e. how to deal with the issue of permanence once abusive images have been distributed online, coping strategies, etc. During these studies Innocence in Danger was confronted with cases in which adolescents filmed each other having sex and distributed these films via Bluetooth to other cell phones or the Inter- net. In these cases professionals are also ill at ease as how to handle such cases. Therefore in 2008 Innocence in Danger began a model prevention scheme regarding the distribution of sexually explicit images via Internet, cell phone, iPod & Co. with adolescents age 12 to 15. This workshop will discuss the care and treatment of CPE victims as well as give first insight into the ongoing prevention model scheme working with adolescents.

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Janice Richardson, INSAFE, Belgium 30 September, Wednesday, 9.00-9.30 Plenary session: What is information and media literacy? In two short decades, Internet has revolutionised the way we work, learn and play. eLiteracy skills are indispensable for anyone wishing to take advantage of the huge opportunities online technology offers whilst avoiding its pitfall, and a pre- requisite for active participation in today’s democratic society. Indeed, the lack of basic information literacy skills is as much a factor of the so-called digital divide as the lack of technology. The session will look at the skills that make up the complex concept of eLiteracy, and how these are developed. It will build on the work done by Insafe’s “Media Literacy” thematic group and set the stage for the break out group to follow. dr Mirosław Filiciak, Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland 30 September, Wednesday, 9.30-10.00 Plenary session: Web 2.0: Challenges for media education Web 2.0, the idea of the participative Web and user-created content, poses new challenges to media education. A new di- mension is added to the existing media skills associated with critical reception of media messages: amateur production. This corresponds to the concept of the participation culture, where the culture is seen as a product of citizen activity and creation – an integral part of social life. At the same time, it poses new problems, because modern education is still torn between the “Columbine paradigm” (protecting children from threats related to the use of new media) and the “Web generation para- digm” (which says it is enough to seat young people in front of computers and let them use it for spontaneous creation and expanding their knowledge). The presentation will address such issues as new dimensions of digital exclusion; analyzing the activity within Web communities in terms of risk taking and group work; as well as the evolution of media’s role in young people’s lives (based on a research project “The Young and the Media”, funded by the Ministry of Culture and Heritage. dr Veronica Samara, Saferinternet.gr, Greece 30 September, Wednesday, 10.00-10.20 Plenary session: The parents’ responsibility in their kids’ media education – their view and their role It is no news that today’s kids and youngsters see the Internet as one of the many activities in their daily lives. They can- not think of the world being without Internet or mobile phone. But, what about parents? Why are so many still, which deny the use of the Internet, leading to extreme behavior: either forbidding its use to their kids thinking that they protect them in this way, or (the other extreme) leaving their kids unattended and free to do whatever they want online? The Internet is definitely not a ‘digital nanny’, and unfortunately, in our today’s world, where parents have to work from the morning till the night to provide their kids with a good life, nannies are so highly wished. But …let us remember, that it is the need for communication and the absence of it within the family, which in many cases forces the kids to seek for help through online ‘friends’ and to escape in the Internet world, sometimes with fatal consequences. As our helpline colleagues – medical doctors – say, when a child sits for hours quietly in his room in front of his computer, parents should not feel ‘happy’ and relieved, but should worry … What does the kid do? With whom does the kid communicate? It is high time for parents to understand that they have to keep pace with their children in this vastly evolving digital age. Even if kids and children may now more concerning the use of the virtual worlds, it is the parents who can, through their life experiences, educate their kids to use those worlds ethically, safely and with critical thinking. The key in this education is communication and trust among the family members, never to forbid without reason, to place rules within the family, which are respected also by the parents, and to always be ‘there’ for the child, when in need. Smart strategies can help parents to stay close to their kids and be their trusted guides.

Thomas Hepsø, SAFT, Norway 30 September, Wednesday, 10.20-10.40 Plenary session: Children’s experiences in the digital world: Challenges and Opportunities The Internet is full of complexity and challenges the traditional regulation and protection measures concerning the use of new technology among children. It tends to support an over-protective, risk-averse culture that restricts the freedom of online exploration that society encourages for children in other spheres. It is in the border between , children rights to information and empowerment and protection of the children, that the difficult questions shows up when you work with Internet, mobile, games and other digital arenas. We can’t risk a development of a “protective child- hood” in a direction were young people can’t take part of their constitutional rights and their developing needs like social-

26 27 izing and empowerment. It is of great importance that we work with good attitudes and consciousness on safe use of 30 September, Wednesday digital interactive media. Many parents feel that they don’t have enough competence or knowledge to help their children Abstracts, to navigate in the virtual world. That’s why it is important to develop parental tools so we can engage and support parents who can lead the way and engage their children. Parents must in greater scale be an example and guide their children towards a safer and responsible use of Internet. To teach children to manage risk is a vital part of developing resistance and competence.

Marcin Sołodki & Łukasz Wojtasik, Nobody’s Children Foundation, Poland 30 September, Wednesday, 10.40-11.00 Plenary session: Educating children on Internet safety – 5 years of Sieciaki.pl project: Experiences and Future Plans Since September 2004 the Nobody´s Children Foundation has been implementing a project “Sieciaki.pl”, aimed at the education of children in the area of safe and effective use of electronic media as well as the certification and promotion of websites which are safe for children. The main part of the project is a website www.sieciaki.pl. The plot of the website is based on the adventures of Sieciaki, the children who know how to use the Web in a safe way and who combat the evil present in the Internet, represented by black creatures called Sieciuchy. The main task of Sieciaki, who posses special skills is to promote information about safe, effective and constructive Internet use. The characters which are attractive for children should encourage the program participants to become a Sieciak. Over 116 000 children, to whom website edi- tors have sent about 1200 messages, have signed up since the beginning of the website, i.e. since February 2005. Dur- ing this time 254 competitions with attractive prizes have been organized. Another important element of the website are also educational picnics for children organized every year under the campaign “Sieciaki on holiday”. The picnic agenda is related to the do plot of the website www.sieciaki.pl. Young Internet users get acquainted with the principles of safe surfing on the Web, Internet-related dangers and the ways to cope with dangerous situations while they are playing. The children who are active during the picnic, put the acquired knowledge into practice and play together receive “bytes” – a web currency which they can later exchange for prizes. So far 43 picnics have been organized and nearly 20 thousand children participated in them. For nearly half a year the project team of Sieciaki.pl has been working on a new version of a website, which would take into consideration the most recent trends and phenomena related to the use of Internet by children and which would be based on state-of-the-art technological solutions. The new website will be equipped with functions proper for social networking (a profile, comments, friends etc.) which will create a space for educating children in the area of safety related to social networks. Communication possibilities between children will be limited to emoticons and defined phrases due to safety reasons. Moreover, the certification system of websites for children will also be further developed. The website will be also enriched with RPG elements, which shall enhance the attractiveness of the proposed educational activities. The planned date of launching the new version of a website is December 2009. The project Sie- ciaki.pl is an element of the Saferinternet.pl project. The main partner in the project is the Orange Foundation.

dr Michael Busch, DG INFSO, European Commission 30 September, Wednesday, 11.30-12.00 Plenary session: The EU Safer Internet program – current developments and policy update The Safer Internet 2009 to 2013 program is built around four main actions: Action 1: Ensuring public awareness of online risks and precautions Action 2: Fighting against illegal content (in particular child sexual abuse material) and tackling harmful conduct online Action 3: Promoting a safer online environment Action 4: Establishing a knowledge base that will provide input to the development of policies and actions The Commission is continuing and further enhancing those initiatives, which have proved in the past to be successful and to generate impact. At the same time the Safer Internet 2009 to 2013 program and its annual work programs allow the Commission to react to upcoming developments, threats and needs. The Commission is extending the general scope of the Safer Internet policy to a number of rising issues. This includes for example considering emerging online technologies, tackling harmful conduct like grooming and cyberbullying, enlarging the knowledge-base, enhancing the integration of safer Internet issues into school curricula, building stronger international links beyond the borders of the EU or supporting police forces when investigating online child investigations.

John Carr, eNACSO & CHIS, United Kingdom 30 September, Wednesday, 12.00-12.30 Plenary session: Internet of things – challenges for child online protection Society faces major challenges in relation to how we manage the roll out of a range of new technologies which are capable of collecting, storing and transmitting substantial amounts of information about the physical whereabouts of individuals or objects that are closely associated with individuals. The major growth of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags was

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originally driven by industry’s search for improved systems for tracking and controlling stock levels e.g. in shops and ware- houses. Now there are several “contactless” systems which can hold and transmit personal information about the carrier. In the UK a number of companies started to market child location services using information supplied by the mobile phone networks. Broadly-speaking the idea they promoted was that you knew where a child was by knowing where their mobile phone handset was. In fact the data that was generated by these early systems could sometimes be quite inaccurate, or rather the information you would be given would cover a very wide area and perhaps not be all that useful. However, with the introduction of GPS (satellite based) modules into mobile phones and other devices it is possible to pinpoint devices, and therefore the children or other persons carrying them, to within a matter of metres. Hence there is a concern that unless sufficiently stringent security checks are put in place an unauthorized person with bad intentions could locate and track a child. Alternatively in situations where, for example, a couple had broken up following instances of domestic violence, the violent partner might be able to discover where their partner and children have sought refuge. With a new breed of Internet based location services coming on stream, the security and civil liberty challenges, the child protection challenges, have stepped up considerably.

Mirosław Maj, NASK, Poland 30 September, Wednesday, 12.30-13.00 Plenary session: Technical aspects of online safety The history of what we used to refer to as hacking may be divided into distinct phases. Such an approach is confirmed by the very meaning of the notion, which was originally used to describe actions related to an in-depth analysis of the way that computers, operating systems and applications work, and which is nowadays used to relate to crime-like, or at least harmful actions. The situation with hackers is similar – from “playing” on the network and breaking in to computers “for the sake of it”, the process has evolved into purely crime-oriented actions, often carried out on a large scale. As a consequence, we have been observing, over the past decade, a very dynamic development of hacking technologies and tools harnessed to make money in an illegal way. Most of those tools and technologies were used to inflict mass-scale attacks, which – in line with the principle of probability – even if hundreds of thousands of computers had to be attacked, bore the results the criminals had hoped for. All that means that practically all of us are threatened by Internet attacks. If a computer is not properly secured – sooner or later it will be attacked with success. Practice indicates that unfortunately this will take place rather sooner than later, and research shows that an attack may take place even a few minutes after connecting the computer to the Web. It is therefore important to become acquainted with the most popular methods used by Internet criminals, to learn the techniques and social techniques with the help of which they may illegally get in the possession of our computer’s contents or use it to attack other computers. During the presentation a number of real and typical Web attacks and the results thereof will be shown. We will discuss characteristic attacks involving viruses, worms or Trojan horses. Such knowledge may be effectively harnessed to identify the attacks, and to avoid them by employing proper technical security measures and by displaying safe Internet behaviors.

Martyna Różycka, Dyżurnet.pl, NASK, Poland 30 September, Wednesday, 14.30-16.30 Parallel session: Law enforcement session Presentation topic: What bothers Internet users? Statistics of Polish hotline – Dyżurnet.pl The team of Dyżurnet.pl has accepted anonymous reports on illegal and harmful content on the Internet for more than 5 years. Initially, most reports concerned child pornography and online promotion of racism or xenophobia. Today a large proportion of reports concerns materials particularly harmful for children and young people, in many cases not regulated by the law. Acting against the display of illegal and harmful content on the Web, the team has co-operated closely with more than 30 hotline teams operating within the INHOPE association, together with the Polish police. Another important aspect of the team’s work is the cooperation with website administrators who remove and secure the reported content upon the team’s request. The latest statistics on the reports accepted by Dyżurnet.pl’s team suggest what kinds of content – according to Web users – should not be present on the generally available Internet. Using the statistics from the past few years, the presentation will show a general tendency – increasing numbers of reports are referred to website administrators with a request to remove the harmful content. That clearly suggests the most urgently needed modifications in the Polish law.

28 29 Rafał Lew-Starowicz, Office of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, Poland Abstracts, 30 September, Wednesday 30 September, Wednesday, 14.30-16.30 Parallel session: Law enforcement session Presentation topic: New legislative proposals to combat child abuse images online The idea behind the legal changes that the Polish government passed in 2009 was to adapt the Polish law to the framework decision of the Council dated 22 December 2003 (on counteracting sexual abuse of children and child pornography), to al- low Poland to ratify the Council of Europe Convention on Cyber Violence (which was opened for signing in Budapest on 23 November 2001 and entered into force on 1 July 2004) and the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse (opened for signing in Lanzarote on 25 October 2007). Poland has signed both the aforementioned conventions. On 11 September 2008, the Government’s Proxy for Equal Treatment appointed, in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, a team of advisors, whose main task is to counteract discrimination of children and youths in electronic mass media due to their age. This task is to be implemented by means of close cooperation with all Polish institutions that have so far been dealing with this issue, by implementing the relevant changes to the Polish law and by expanding international cooperation. The changes that have already been introduced to the Polish penal code allow the courts to convict people who produce, with the help of computer technology, pornographic materials with the participation of a minor, which materials hardly differ from real pictures. They also allow the courts and prosecutors to secure evidence in the form of hard drives, computers or CDs and DVDs with child pornography, even if the owner of electronic equipment is not granted the status of a suspect. Additional proposals of change are currently in the final phase of the parliamentary processing procedures, and are aimed at introducing penalties for recording and storing materials of pornographic char- acter with the participation of a naked person without his/her consent (for instance with the help of a video camera in a mobile phone), penalizing grooming of minors on the Internet (in all types of chat room and forums), as well as allowing the police to take advantage of instigation in order to identify a person committing a crime – to improve the efficiency of counteracting pedophilia.

Evgeny Bespalov, Friendly Runet, Russia 30 September, Wednesday, 14.30-16.30 Parallel session: Law enforcement session Presentation topic: Cooperation of Law Enforcements and FRF hotline in combating online child sexual abuse materials in Russia Friendly Runet Foundation (FRF) is a non-profit non-governmental organization which is founded for conducting Internet safety projects in Russia. From the very start the cooperation with law enforcements has been a key issue. In Russia a Dept K of Interior Ministry is responsible for combating cybercrimes. Before launching the hotline a working group comprising Internet industry and Dept K representatives was summoned. It has worked out the aims and purposes of the hotline. Also a first edition of hotline regulations was developed. After the FRF started its operations we have transformed the working group into a Foundation’s Coordinating board which consists of the industry’s, state agencies’ and law enforcements’ representatives. The aim of cooperation with law enforcements is a combating illegal content and stopping other illegal activities on the net via developing and sustaining industrial self-regulation mechanisms. The hotline does not duplicate the law enforcement efforts but establishes partnership networks and provides conditions for resolving the problems within the industry. All the interactions between Dept K and FRF are conducted in framework of special bilateral regulations. These interactions include: Informing Dept K about potentially illegal content revealed from the reports Supplying Dept K with a statistics and analytical information concerning a dynamics of illegal content in Russian segment of the Internet (domains, characteristics of the content, content and hosting service providers, their actions, etc) Joint research and investigations Sharing experience and joint development of the hotline procedures and regulations Joint information campaigns and participation in public events As a result, more than 4500 reports have been processed since January till the end of August, 2009. About 2000 URLs or individual web-sites were confirmed by the hotline analysts to have child sexual abuse content. 1700 URLs or individual web-sites were closed down at the mediation of FRF hotline both in Russia and abroad. Also Dept K has filed several suits against certain suspects.

Jakub Śpiewak, Kidprotect.pl, Poland 30 September, Wednesday, 14.30-16.30 Parallel session: Law enforcement session Presentation topic: The role of expert witnesses and specialists in cases of child sexual abuse Criminal offences against sexual freedom and morals, committed to the detriment of minor persons, include: sexual intercourse and other forms of sexual activity with a person under 15, rape, abuse of the relationship of dependence, incest, facilitating and profiting from prostitution performed by a minor person, as well as acts associated with production, recording, importing, sharing, public display, distribution, possession and storage of pornographic materials with the participation of minor persons, especially persons under 15. Special attention should be devoted to the criminal offences

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referred to in articles 200 and 202 of the Polish Penal Code, and a new type of a prohibited act (to be defined in the proposed article 202a), i.e., establishing contact with a minor person (grooming) with the goal of raping the minor, having sexual intercourse with a minor under 15, or producing pornographic materials with his/her participation. In many such cases the opinion of an expert witness – a sexologist, psychologist or computer forensics specialist – is the key evidence. Therefore, effective cooperation between law enforcement bodies and experts is essential. Generally, cooperation in the field of computer forensics seems the most problematic, because computer forensics is a relatively new discipline and law enforcement/justice agencies do not have enough experience in using such opinions. Jakub Śpiewak’s presentation will introduce the audience into the field of cooperating with computer forensics experts.

Stefan Glaser, Jugendschutz.net / International Network Against Cyber Hate, Germany & dr Bartłomiej Gutowski, NEVER AGAIN Association, Poland 30 September, Wednesday, 14.30-16.30 Parallel session: Law enforcement session Presentation topic: on the Internet Racist, anti-Semite, xenophobic or event neo-Nazi content is present and easily accessible on the Internet. Perhaps they are not the greatest of the Internet-related threats, so they are often ignored as actually harmless or hardly noticeable. But Internet auctions are a source where one can by any propaganda materials, since the administrators of a given service have decided that the items do not promote any ideology. Nearly every social group is abused by comments that may be read on Internet forums. Examples are in abundance. As the technology, and most importantly the fad for open, interactive forms of contact develop, the phenomenon gains in force. As a consequence, the dialogue-based formula of the Web, shaping the direct relations between its users, gives way to conflict. It seems that in the case of many types of content (unless it may be deleted altogether), children should be unconditionally protected against it, as such content presents a false and biased picture of the world based on conflict and distaste, on humiliating other human beings. The aim of our lecture will be to show and analyze selected examples of racist content. The findings are based mainly on the web monitoring carried out, for 10 years now, within the framework of the RACISM DELETE campaign by the Never Again Association. Threats posed by sites of this type, affecting mainly children, will be shown. The Association’s attempts to counteract this type of content will be described as well, just as will be the actions that we promote and could improve the level of Web safety.

Thomas Michel, DLGI, Germany 30 September, Wednesday, 14.30-16.30 Parallel session: Education session Presentation topic: KlickITsafe: testing IT safety knowledge at schools – first steps to the ECDL The world is digital, are we prepared? Digital literacy is precondition for surviving in the modern work environment and necessary for many services delivered by means of modern ICT. Basic safety knowledge is necessary for the individual to communicate in social networks etc. and it is crucial for companies to be able to use ICT safely. For these reasons, DLGI – the institution representing the IT certificate ECDL® (European Computer Driving License) in Germany – has in cooperation with klicksafe developed learning modules about Internet safety. These klickITsafe modules are meant for use in class and are based on the klicksafe teachers’ handbook “Knowhow for young users”. To every module an online check is available for users to examine if they are safe and fit in their Internet use. The modules give teachers the possibility to prepare their pupils for Internet use and to check their competences and are available free of cost for registered users at www.ecdl- moodle.de. Topics range from social networks and online games to password security.

Łukasz Wojtasik, Nobody’s Children Foundation, Poland 30 September, Wednesday, 14.30-16.30 Parallel session: Education session Presentation topic: Lesson plans of Child on the Web campaign Since 2004 the Nobody’s Children Foundation has been conducting, as part of the “Child on the Web” campaign, comprehensive measures aimed at improving children’s safety on the Internet. The campaign is implemented under the Safer Internet program in Poland, in cooperation with the Orange Foundation. The actions are based primarily on education of children and youths. The campaign’s educational offer is created in line with the idea of blended learning, combining direct (traditional) learning with on-line education (e-learning courses, websites). The educational proposals are made us of during school lessons, extramural activities and educational events. Any information concerning the educational proposals worked out under the Child on the Web campaign are made available at www.dzieckowsieci.pl. The website allows to download 30 31 lesson plans in the PDF format, as well as any multimedia materials, such as presentations, films and cartoons needed to 30 September, Wednesday conduct the session. The website also allows the session to be evaluated by teachers and to collect educational session Abstracts, completion certificates. During the presentation the structure of the educational activities carried out under the “Child on the Web” campaign will be described, along with the selected lesson plans for primary and junior high school students: • Web Kids (primary school, grades I-III) Session devoted to basics in safe Internet use. A series of three cartoons is presented with the adventures of a group of Web Kids, fighting the bad kids on the Internet. • 3…2…1… Internet! (primary school, grades IV-VI) Session based on a series of six attractive cartoons narrated by Krzysztof Hołowczyc (Polish rally driver). The aim of the session is to familiarize children with safe and effective use of the Internet as and alternative to the following risk- bearing behaviors: cyber violence, meetings with persons known only from the Internet, making personal data public, Web piracy, excessive use of the Internet. The project has been developed in cooperation with Microsoft. • Stop cyberbullying (junior high school) Session based on a movie presenting the case of peer violence with the use of electronic media. The objective of the session is to familiarize the students with the phenomenon of cyber violence and to make them sensitive to the problem and its serious consequences, both for the victims and the culprits.

Marcin Sołodki, Nobody’s Children Foundation & Zuzanna Staniewicz, Orange Foundation, Poland 30 September, Wednesday, 14.30-16.30 Parallel session: Education session Presentation topic: E-learning courses of Child on the Web campaign For nearly two years now the Nobody’s children foundation has been running, in cooperation with the Orange Foundation, under the “Child on the Web” campaign, an e-learning platform on which sessions for children and youths devoted to safe Internet use are made available. All those actions are undertaken under the Safer Internet program in Poland. Until recently, the e-learning method was used exclusively in the education of adults. Experience gathered during the “Child on the Web” campaign indicates that it may be also successfully used in the education of the young ones. 1526 teachers have registered to-date on the campaign’s e-learning platform, and the courses have been taken advantage of by 39 184 primary and junior high school students. In their evaluations, both teachers and students highly value the attractiveness and effectiveness of this form of education. Courses of the “Child on the Web” campaign are made available through a unique e-learning platform at www.kursy.dzieckowsieci.pl. The platform was prepared with the school environment in mind, which allows the teachers to group their students, evaluate and supervise their work, as well as to communicate with their pupils. During the presentation opportunities offered by the platform will be described along with the e-learning courses:

• Course for primary school students, grades I-III “Learn the safe Internet” Web Kids: Ajpi, Spociak, Netka and Kompel accompanied by the robot Netrobi and Artificial Intelligence face the threats posed by the Internet and become familiar with the basic safety rules. The course is made up of 8 modules. The course participant’s task is to pass 7 initiation levels and join the Web Kids’ team. • Course for primary school students – grades IV-VI “Safe adventure with the Internet” Web Kids: Ajpi, Spociak, Netka and Kompel, accompanied by the robot Netrobi and Artificial Intelligence face the threats posed by the Internet and become familiar with the basic safety principles. The course is made up of 7 modules. It is the user’s task to pass through 7 chambers, collect 7 discs of knowledge and joint the Web Kids’ team. • Course for junior high school students, grades I-III “Real friends or strangers?” The course participant acts as an administrator of a social website and solves the problems of its users. The administrator is in touch with the Boss, who issues orders and offers assistance in difficult cases. The course comprises 10 modules, in which the user becomes familiar with the greatest threats related to the Internet.

Katarzyna Nowicka, CenterNet S.A., Poland 30 September, Wednesday, 14.30-16.30 Parallel session: Education session Presentation topic: “My first mobile phone” campaign The number of mobile phones used by children is growing dynamically. During the past 2 years the number of children possessing their own mobile phones has grown by nearly 30%.* Children adapt easily to the world of technological innovations, but they often do not realize or fail to remember about the basic principles of using a mobile phone. What do young users seek in mobile phones? What is more important to them – gadgets such as a large colour display, music and photo functions, or the possibility to use the basic functions of the mobile phone? How do parents feel about the fact that their children possess their own mobiles? What are the principles of reasonable and safe use of mobile phones? The action

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called “My First Mobile” tries to answer these questions. It is the first Polish initiative addressing the problem of education about how to use mobile phones in a wise and secure way. The action teaches the mobile phone etiquette, safety rules that help to avoid unpleasant situations related to the possession of a mobile phone, and the principles of responsibility for oneself and for others. The main character of the campaign, Fonio, tells children – drawing on his own experience – about how to use their first mobiles. Fonio’s instructions constitute a user’s manual that should be carefully read by every young user before entering the mobile world. “My First Mobile” has been carried out since September 2008 as part of the corporate social responsibility strategy adopted by CenterNet S.A. – a new mobile network operator in Poland. *Source: “Maluchy” (Little Ones) study, MillwardBrown SMG/KRC

Julia Gursztyn, NASK, Poland 30 September, Wednesday, 14.30-16.30 Parallel session: Education session Presentation topic: Child-friendly Internet café – campaign summary The nationwide media campaign “Child-friendly Internet café” was launched in December 2008 by NASK (Research and Academic Computer Network) which – together with the Nobody’s Children Foundation – has implemented the European Commission’s “Safer Internet” programme in Poland. The launch of the campaign was preceded by a study conducted in August 2008 by Gemius – a partner of the campaign. The study has shown that children constitute more than 60% of cybercafé clients, and the youngest of them are only 6 or 7 years old. Consequently, the campaign initiators have organized an action aimed at promoting the idea of a child friendly cybercafé, i.e., one that meets three basic criteria: Uses filtering applications to block harmful content on computers used by children. Makes sure that the computers available to children are monitored by the staff. Displays materials that promote the principles of safe Internet use: leaflets, posters, and brochures easily available to child Web users. For cybercafé owners who joined the action, met the above mentioned requirements, and submitted photos documenting the implementation of the campaign in their cafés, the organizers prepared the Child Friendly Cybercafé Diploma. The campaign initiators made sure that each cybercafé willing to join the action was provided with filtering software and materials promoting safe Internet use. Moreover, child friendly cybercafés were provided with promotion materials confirming their participation in the action, such as posters, leaflets, stickers, mugs, and mousepads. The campaign has been joined by 36 cybercafés, including 2 network ones with several dozen Internet sites. The information about the cybercafés that have joined the campaign, is promoted on the Saferinternet.pl project’s website, in a special section dedicated to this campaign: http://kawiarenka.saferinternet.pl/. Cybercafés interested in participating in the campaign are still welcome to join it.

Magdalena Ciołek, Kidprotect.pl, Poland 30 September, Wednesday, 14.30-16.30 Parallel session: Education session Presentation topic: School of Safe Internet The main goal of “School of Safe Internet”, a programme carried out by the Kidprotect.pl Foundation and the TP Group, is to raise knowledge about broadly understood online safety among teachers, parents, and students, and consequently – to reduce risks related to young people’s access to harmful content, cyberbullying, technological threats, and psychological manipulation, including paedophilia and addiction to the Internet. The programme has been carried out under the honorary patronage of the Minister of National Education, the Children’s Ombudsman, and the Government Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment, in cooperation with Axel Springer, Nasza-Klasa.pl, Allegro.pl, Microsoft, Cisco, F-Secure, and other partners. Schools from all over Poland (primary, junior secondary, and secondary schools) may apply for a free “School of Safe Internet” certificate, which is granted in the printed form and as a graphic sign that can be used by the schools in advertising and on their websites. Each school is also entered in the list of certified schools available on the programme’s website, SzkolaBezpiecznegoInternetu.pl. The certificate is granted for three school years. The “School of Safe Internet” certificate may be granted to a school which: • Uses filtering software to block harmful content; • Uses security software to protect its computers; • Uses legal software only; • Has organized training for the teaching staff, parents and students about keeping children safe online – in cooperation with the Education Centre of the Kidprotect.pl Foundation or another institution certified by the Foundation; • Displays information on safe Internet use in places where students may use the Web;

32 33 • Organizes prevention activities concerning safe Internet use to encourage students’ active participation (e.g., artistic 30 September, Wednesday competitions, production of stage performances or educational videos – together with students); Abstracts, • Cooperates with the appropriate police unit for preventing online threats, especially cyberbullying; • Has developed and implemented a document describing its policy of online safety as a components of the school’s educational activity; such a policy statement has to be approved by the Foundation; • Presents information about its efforts on its website and communicates it regularly to the Kidprotect.pl Foundation.

Piotr Kantyka, Nasza-klasa.pl, Poland 30 September, Wednesday, 14.30-16.30 Parallel session: Digital lifestyles – safety in social networking sites Presentation topic: The secret life of our children In summer 2008 a large number of fictitious personal profiles of children were noticed on the Nasza-klasa portal. Most photos added to their photo galleries showed babies or very young children. Many profiles included the same photos, apparently taken from other accounts or from the Internet. A distinctive feature of all these profiles was their infantile language (or baby talk). The information provided in the profiles suggested that the virtual “children” had been abused or abandoned and were seeking care and help. Vulgar or obscene language occurred in many of the profiles, too. Our internal investigation found that there were also “virtual parents” on the portal. They were looking for children they could “adopt”. Interestingly, photos in the galleries and personal data provided in the profiles referred to popular actors, such as Vanessa Anne Hudgens, starring in the High School Musical series. Both the „children” and the „parents” were very active on our Internet forums, living their virtual lives there. There were virtual weddings and adoptions. As the number of such accounts was growing, our User Service Department began to accept more and more reports from concerned users. The subject was also frequently discussed on several external forums, particularly on vortals focusing on young parents and child rearing. It was also described in newspapers. Internet users were increasingly outraged and worried. First, we decided to secure the data and remove the suspicious profiles. Then we contacted the police and experts from the Kidprotect.pl Foundation. Based on the collected evidence, we established that all these accounts were owned by children aged 8–14. Children who had created such profiles and were later interviewed by experts, explained that “playing paedophiles” was very popular among young people in this age group.

Anna Rywczyńska, NASK, Poland 30 September, Wednesday, 14.30-16.30 Parallel session: Digital lifestyles – safety in social networking sites Presentation topic: Blogs – life online During the past few years we have witnessed a progressing transfer our daily activities, experiences, and thoughts to the Internet. The virtual world begins to merge with our daily life. We have observed rapid development of social networking sites such as Facebook or Twitter, through which we can share our plans, information and thoughts, support various social initiatives, join interesting thematic groups; we live... moving our interests and (in many cases) our real-world friends to the Web. Adults enter the virtual world quite timidly, while children seem to feel comfortably settled there. There are millions of weblogs in Poland and thousands are entered for the Blog of the Year contest. However, when enjoying the benefits of the Internet, children often forget about the risk associated with moving a large part of their privacy to a web profile. They reveal their personal data and write emotional online diaries, unprepared for vulgar comments. They create fictitious sites, including weblogs, unaware of the harm that can be caused by such jokes. Therefore, the presentation will introduce the audience to the weblog world and draw their attention to threats related to the “digital lifestyle”. It will also describe the weblog-related experiences gathered during the implementation of the Safer Internet programme in Poland.

Michał Serzycki, GIODO, Poland 30 September, Wednesday, 14.30-16.30 Parallel session: Digital lifestyles – safety in social networking sites Presentation topic: Privacy online: social networking sites and data protection The protection of personal data – the main task of the Personal Data Protection Bodies (PDPB) – is directly related to the security of information revealed on social networking sites. Most clearly, there is an urgent need to protect children who often use such portals and are at the highest risk of losing one of the most valuable things they have: their identity and personal data. The goal of the Personal Data Protection Bodies is to create a safe and friendly Internet environment for the youngest users. There is a vivid discussion between people who take advantage of the amazing communication opportunities offered by social networking sites and those who see them as a threat to users’ rights and privacy. Social networking sites offer their

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users a pleasant feeling of having their own space in the virtual world or being a member of a small community. However, this feeling is largely unfounded and may lead to revealing too much of the user’s private life and personal information, which may have some serious long-term consequences, because even though the term “social networking” suggests that revealing personal data is like sharing with friends, the information provided in the profile may actually be available to all users of the site, sometimes even millions of people. Therefore, the Personal Data Protection Bodies have been monitoring the development of communication on the Web with the goal of increasing the awareness of the problems related to personal data protection among children and their caregivers. PDPB take an active part – at the national, European and global levels – in the development of rules and guidelines for protecting portal users’ rights. It is illustrated by the adoption in 2008, during the 30th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners in Strasbourg, of a resolution on the protection of children’s privacy on the Internet and a resolution on data protection in social networking sites, which provides a list of threats related to the use of social networking sites and offers recommendations for the providers and users of such sites. Intensified efforts and coordinated cooperation – at the national and international levels – of many institutions that care about keeping children safe on social networking sites are necessary to protect the youngest users effectively. However, the most effective protection can be ensured by users themselves through reasonable handling of their personal data on the Web. Therefore, the need for education in this area has become more urgent than ever before.

Markus Berger-de León, studiVZ Ltd, Germany 30 September, Wednesday, 14.30-16.30 Parallel session: Digital lifestyles – safety in social networking sites Presentation topic: Effectivity of self-control in social networks Self control is social control One of the most important characteristics of social networks is that users know each other generally from their real lives. Another mentionable point is that almost all active users of social networks spend about half an hour or more each day socialising with their friends, uploading pictures, discussing interesting topics and so on. Millions of active users prefer using a network which they feel safe and comfortable with. Inappropriate behaviour of users such as bullying is not tolerated and vigilant users will try to find a remedy. Real-name-based social networks are part of the real life and therefore self control in social networks is comparable with real civic action. Providers can empower self control A major task of social network providers is to explain the opportunities and risks of social networking to their users and help them to understand how to use a service proficient. Especially the media literacy of minor users has to be enhanced. Concerning this matter parents and schools also have to make a contribution. Another task of social network providers is to offer an easy-to-use reporting mechanism that empowers users to report unwanted conduct or content. Reports must be executed anonymous and professional in an adequate quick procedure. Self control is effective There is no existing tool which is more effective than a community of millions of high involved and vigilant users. Providers have to make use of this potential to provide safe services.

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