Re: [npoc-voice] Sessions description draft for Beijing

["Klaus Stoll" <klaus.stoll@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Friends

Greetings. I agree very much with what Marie-laure and Caroline have said. 
Youth, (and also Gender), are VERY important topics and NPOC should make 
them one of its themes. It is also importantto go away on these topics from 
protection and prevention.
In case that we are talking about protection, I would like to contribute, 
(see below) a recent very short document that GKPF, with the help of Dr. 
Burnham and CTIC has contributed to the national Child Online Protection 
Guides in preparation of the WSISForum and Africa COP Summit. Again, 
protection and prevention should not be the thrust of our argument within 
the topic of Youth. BTW, I would like to suggest that NPOC joins GKPF at 
these events. I know that Marie-laure is a world class expert in this field!
Yours

Klaus

COP360°: Prevention plus support of children who have already been exposed 
and victimized by on-line abuse
A 360°approach to COP,  combines prevention with support of children and 
adolescents who have already been exposed and victimized by on-line abuse. 
This approach should be part of every National COP Strategy. Suicide, 
attempted suicide, depression, acting out behaviors, and self inflicted 
injuries are just some of the dire outcomes children and adolescents turn to 
as a result of victimization on-line.  Such extreme responses are reflective 
of  the desperateness children and adolescents feel and the measures they 
will take in order to deal with this abuse which unfortunately, has become a 
common occurrence in our time. However, the impact of on-line abuse is not 
only the victimization of individuals, it also leads to greater violence and 
abuse in families, schools, and communities and ultimately will have  the 
most negative impact  on economically, educationally, and socially 
impoverished communities worldwide.  On-line victimization puts at risk the 
future of these children and their potential to grow into mentally and 
emotionally stable, healthy adults who will be positive contributing members 
of their families, their schools, and their communities. To be truly 
effective, COP must have a 360-degree approach to on-line abuse. This 
requires, besides preventive measures, an on-line Victim Support Program 
with tools and skill sets readily translatable across different cultures, 
sensitive to gender and ethnicity, and easily linked to education and 
prevention programs already in place. The COP 360° approach should be 
implemented in all COP areas such as COP Hotlines, National COP Centers and 
COP media campaigns.

RECCOMENDATIONS:
•    Sensitize and educate multi stakeholders’ partnerships to the severity 
of the consequences of child online abuse.
•    Provide the mechanisms and tools to counteract this individual, family, 
and community problem worldwide.
•    Focus on helping and repairing the mental and emotional damage done by 
on-line abuse.
•    Build and strengthen individual, group, and community  resiliency.
•    Create and empower a sense of self efficacy through a network of 
trainers who become subject matter experts able to transfer knowledge, 
tools, and skills to others.
•    Create an interactive online child abuse and support learning network.
•    Build capacity by fostering ongoing resource networks of training and 
development.
•    Linkage to networks currently operating within the diversity of 
prevention programs.
•    Leverage existing collaborations and resources by creating new 
abilities in supporting victims of child on-line abuse.
IMPLEMENTATIONS:
Face to Face, Train the Trainers Customized Workshops
Participants include: Designated leaders, teachers, mediators, school 
administrators, directors of youth focused programs, and ancillary staff who 
work directly with children such as nurses, counselors, social workers and 
coaches.
Training workshops are base on age, developmental stage and levels of 
vulnerability and risk.
Workshops are conducted through multimedia modalities, didactic sessions, 
and experiential and action learning processes. All materials are culturally 
sensitive and specific to age, gender and ethnic diversity.

-----Original Message----- 
From: mlemineur@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 10:42 PM
To: Poncelet Ileleji
Cc: mlemineur@xxxxxxxxxxxx ; npoc-voice@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [npoc-voice] Sessions description draft for Beijing


Dear Poncelet and all,

I have improved the description of our youth session and incorporated
Poncelet´s  suggestion to mention the IGF. I am in the process of
uploading it to the wiki hopefully I can make it for today if not, it will
be uploaded before our conference call tomorrow.

Also, I think we should be careful on how we focus the issue of the
involvement of youth and be aware from the very beginning that we do not
want to promote only a "protection agenda" since there is a tendency from
adults to ONLY think of youth and the dangers of the Internet and
therefore only speak of how they should be protected. I have been involved
with this part for many years now and I acknowlegde that this can not be
left aside. Awareness-raising activities for promoting self-protection is
indispensible. Nervertheless, I have also seen that it is key to empower
youth as subjects of rights and not just limit our vision to promote a
perception of youth as passive recipients of the protection strategies we
adults design and implement. This is trap easy to fall in.

In summary, personlly I favor an agenda where youth tells what they can do
instead of focusing solely on listing what they should be protected from.

I´d love to hear other´s  thoughts on this...

Thanks

Best,

Marie-laure

Hello ML,
> Thanks for sharing the details of our session, am still awaiting feed back
> from the Chinese YMCA representative am certain to get it soon, the draft
> agenda is looking good, I will like us to add something on the IGF on
> especially on the role of the youths, with the various online data
> protection and privacy issues going on, as this can feed into a more
> detailed topic for is for the coming IGF, so it will be great to get
> discussions on going.
>
> Again thank you I will like your thoughts on getting  an aspect of youth
> and IGF involved in our session.
>
> Thanks
>
> Poncelet
>
> On 26 February 2013 11:21, <mlemineur@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Dear colleagues,
> >
> > As agreed, please find attached the draft of the description for our
> > sessions in Beijing.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Marie-Laure
>
>
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