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'''Childnet International''' is a registered UK [[Charitable organization|charity]] (No. 1080173) that |
'''Childnet International''' is a registered UK [[Charitable organization|charity]] (No. 1080173) that aims to make the internet a great and safe place for children and young people. They offer online safety advice to parents, young people and teachers. |
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==History and mission== |
==History and mission== |
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Childnet International is a registered UK charity (No. 1080173) that aims to make the internet a great and safe place for children and young people. They offer online safety advice to parents, young people and teachers.
History and mission
Since it was founded, Childnet International has had 3 CEOs. They are the following:
- Nigel Williams 1996-2003.[1] Nigel moved on from Childnet to become the Children’s Commissioner for Northern Ireland.
- Stephen Carrick Davies 2003-2008[2]
- Current CEO - Will Gardner 2009[3][4]
The organization works in partnership with individuals, organizations, and governments worldwide to help make the Internet a useful and safe resource for children. It pursues its mission in three broad areas:[5]
- Access and promoting quality content: Childnet helps children and young people use the net in ways to achieve constructive goals; it showcases quality content; and it provides educational and other resources to help others develop new child-focused projects.[6][7]
- Awareness and advice: The organization teaches children and young people new “net literacy” skills; and advises industry, organisations, parents, teachers, children, schools, and carers about Internet and mobile device privacy and safety. A significant aspect of this effort includes efforts to prevent cyber-bullying[8] and provide education about its prevention and about how to respond to incidents.[9][10]
- Protection and policy: Working with others to help protect children from being exploited in the online environments provided by new technologies as well as seeking to initiate and respond to policy changes.
Children
Hence the name, Childnet's main focus is on children. As well as children being given lots of good advice of how to be safe online, they are a big part of Childnet's websites, videos and every other part of the charity. On their Kidsmart website, all the videos star children. Childnet have developed a group called the Networkers. They are children who volunteer to give their time to Childnet to help make the Internet safer. They help work on most of what Childnet does.
On some occasions, Childnet works with children to create videos for their YouTube channel.
Schools
Schools are another big part of Childnet. Schools decide which children join the Childnet Networkers group, then Childnet visits the school to do activities with Networkers. Childnet offer resources to schools, such as animated videos.
Anti-filesharing campaign and media industry funding
Childnet is funded by the recording and broadcasting industries.[11] It is currently pursuing an anti-filesharing campaign including publishing the leaflet "Music, Films and the Internet", co-funded by The Industry Trust for Intellectual Property Awareness, the BPI and the IFPI. The leaflet was distributed to every secondary school in the UK in 2010[12] and is available online to read and download.[13] It warns of a link between filesharing, computer viruses and unwanted access to pornography and violent images.[14]
References
- ^ Chilnet-info.org, (info here about why Childnet was set up in the first place)
- ^ Childnet-int.org
- ^ Childnet-int.org
- ^ "Childnet's Annual Review for 2008" (PDF). childnet.com. London: Childnet International. 2008. Retrieved 26 August 2010.
- ^ "About Childnet International". childnet.com. London: Childnet International. Retrieved 26 August 2010.
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Cosgrove-Mather, Bootie (3 April 2002). "Childnet awards recognize kids". C.B.S. News. C.B.S. Retrieved 26 August 2010.
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Grace, Francie (11 December 2003). "Websites to make a better world". C.B.S. News. C.B.S. Retrieved 26 August 2010.
{{cite news}}: More than one of|author=and|last=specified (help) - ^ "Cyberbullying - from Childnet's Digital Citizen website". digizen.org. London: Childnet International. Retrieved 26 August 2010.
- ^ "Cyberbullying - KnowITall information for parents". childnet-int.org. London: Childnet International. Retrieved 26 August 2010.
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Thompson, Bill (25 September 2007). "Putting a stop to the cyberbullies". B.B.C. News. B.B.C. Retrieved 26 August 2010.
{{cite news}}: More than one of|author=and|last=specified (help) - ^ http://www.childnet.com/what-we-do/supporters
- ^ http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/36687/childnet-joins-forces-media-industries
- ^ http://www.childnet.com/resources/downloading/home
- ^ http://www.childnet.com/ufiles/downloads_uk_edition.pdf
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