Remco Pijpers from My Child Online and POSCON Network Member
represented the Thematic Network POSCON at the FOSI conference about safer
internet for children in Paris, on May 22.
The Family
Online Safety Institute (FOSI) is an international,
non-profit organization which works to make the online world safer for kids and
their families. FOSI convenes leaders in industry, government and the
non-profit sectors to collaborate and innovate new solutions and policies in
the field of online safety.
Remco participated in the panel discussion ‘Doing Good Online, Making a
Better Internet’. This panel covered best practices for creating more positive
content for children. Remco talked about the work of the Thematic Network POSCON
and stressed the need for more positive
content, making that a priority for companies and the need for more research
into the positive use of the Internet.
The panel expressed the need to get more children
competing and learning to code as well as opening up the education system to
allow creativity. Remco provided an example of the King of the Netherlands
inviting children to produce content and handing out prizes as a way to
encourage more content for kids. The panel agreed that high-profile individuals
can help incentivize content creation.
One of the POSCON Network Members also joined the panel: Filip Rožánek from
Czech Radio as winner of the European Award for Best Content For Kids with the
website "Webík
Rádia Junior" . He explained how he divides content for age groups including pre-schoolers and older
kids and said the key to making the Internet better is more education and less
regulation.
Read more about the conference:http://www.fosi.org/european-forum-2014-event-summary.html
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