Safe Internet – Listin Diario (press release)

Today is the International Day of Safe Internet. This day, held in February, was born in 2003 in the interest of promoting worldwide the responsible, productive and safe for Information Technology Use and Communication Technologies (ICT) Digital, especially among children and youth.

Through the chat, videos, downloads from links placed on social networks and engaging pages for infants, children and young people access content that exposes pedophilia, kidnapping, harassment and psychological abuse.

the observation that date by more than 70 countries has enabled many nations and international organizations develop standards and establish positions to regulate and protect the safety of infants online.

the National Institute Cybersecurity Spain (Incibes), for example, has developed a children’s Internet Guide for Parents (available online) urging guardians to protect their children from threats that lurk in the virtual world.

“in the same way we educate our children in the use of different technologies (telephony) or habits (polite) more rooted in our society, the Internet has become one of the pillars of communication today, and this requires us to indicate, from small, what are the virtues and dangers of the net are not only because it is an essential tool in their relationship with the social environment, but is a powerful tool education and parent-child relationship “, consider this entity.

Resources

 The United Nations Fund for Children (Unicef) has a framework report “to protect children from threats like cyberbullying, exposure to pictures of abuse, as well as other practices such as ‘grooming’, in which some people posing as children to get intimate photographs of children “. Unicef ​​stated in the document that there are four elements necessary to create a safer environment for children online: teach them to protect themselves, to end impunity for those who harass them, reducing access to harmful material from Internet and support the recovery of the victims. In Argentina unicef.org/ document / spanish / Unicef_ InternetSegura_web.pdf find resources and tips to accompany girls and boys on the web.