About the project
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Coordinating institution of the Centre - Latvian Internet Association , Partner - The State Inspectorate for Protection of Children’s Rights .
The project is aimed at informing and educating children, adolescents, teachers and parents on the safety of Internet content, i.e. the potential threats on the Internet (incitement to hate, racism, child pornography and pedophilia, emotional harassment on the Internet, identity theft and data abuse). This project allows the general public to report on crimes detected on the Internet at the website www.drossinternets.lv electronically. The reports are processed and, if appropriate, send for examination to the Cybercrime Prevention Department of the State Police. The project activities also include the Helpline 116111 (80006008) of the State Inspectorate for Protection of Children’s Rights.
Planned project activities in 2009-2010:
- organization of seminars, discussions, competitions and information campaigns;
- development of different information materials (development of educational video material and an interactive game, educational materials for kindergartens, etc.);
- participation of project specialists – Internet safety experts in different activities;
- promotion of the hotline and electronic reporting;
- improvement of the website;
- discussions with different target groups;
- involvement of popular persons in project activities;
- participation in the global Safer Internet Day;
- conducting research.
The project Net-Safe Latvia is the national contact point for the Insafe and Inhope networks in Latvia.
About INSAFE
Insafe is a network of national nodes that coordinate Internet safety awareness in Europe.
The mission of the Insafe cooperation network is to empower citizens to use the Internet, as well as other information and communication technologies, safely and effectively.
Insafe promotes positive, ethical use of online information and communication technologies. The network calls for shared responsibility for the protection of the rights and needs of citizens, in particular children and youths, by government, educators, parents, media, industry and all other relevant actors.
Insafe partners work closely together to share best practice, information and resources. The network will interact with industry, schools and families with the aim of empowering people to bridge the digital divide between home and school and between generations.
Insafe partners will monitor and address emerging trends, while seeking to reinforce the image of the Internet as a place to learn. It will raise awareness on reporting harmful or illegal content and services.
Through close cooperation between partners and other actors, Insafe aims to raise Internet safety-awareness standards and support the development of information literacy for all.
Its mission is to eliminate child pornography from the Internet and protect young people from harmful and illegal uses of the Internet.
The key functions of the Association are:
- Exchange expertise
- Support new hotlines
- Exchange reports
- Interface with [relevant] initiatives outside the EU
- Educate and inform policy makers, particularly at the international level.
- Freedom of the Internet.
- A commitment to positive uses of the Internet
- Shared responsibility for protection of young people by government, educators, parents and the Internet industry
- To establish and resource of effective national hotlines.
- To train and support new hotlines
- To foster ongoing Internet safety awareness and education throughout Europe
- The establishment of effective common procedures for receiving and processing reports
