Transcript SAFE NRENs The role of NRENs in national campaigns for

SAFE NRENs
The role of NRENs in national campaigns for
safer internet for children
Tomi Dolenc
Arnes, p.p. 7, SI - 1001 Ljubljana
[email protected]
TF-CPR Meeting, Ljubljana
4. 3. 2010
Contents
• History of embracing the role
• Our contribution
• Why?
History
• Arnes connects schools since 1993
• Introducing ICT to schools together with MoE
and National Institute of Education
• A part of our job is knowledge transfer
• Educating teacher training experts
• We warn about annoyances/dangers of the net
• Spam, viruses, frauds
• Young hackers
• Changed communication (anonymity,
hatespeech)
More history
• Raise of the moral majority:
• Late 90’s: media discover porn@net
• Paedophile hysteria
• EC throws big € into saving children –
Safer Internet Action Plan
• 1999 MoE asks us to join Safer Internet
through European Schoolnet
• We participated in DOT.SAFE (lurking)
Present: National Safer Internet
Centre (SAFE.SI)
• National Awareness Node since 2005
• Faculty of Social Science (Univ. of
Ljubljana) and Arnes
• Later joined by Consumer Protection
Association
• Project merged with
Internet Hotline (fighting illegal content)
and Helpline
What do we do?
• Help coordinate activities with Govt, ISPs and the police
• Raise general awareness (also part of CERT activities)
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Help understand what the technology can or cannot do
Educate experts for teacher training
Lecture to teachers and parents at schools (limited scale)
Participate in events
Help produce and distribute materials
• Appear on TV and maintain our image of security&safety
experts
Why join?
• We believed educating about internet
was a part of our work
• It’s good for our image
• We want a seat by the steering wheel
Missionaries of The Net
• We were introducing new technology
• Feel competent and obliged to talk
about safety aspects too
• We know how it works
• Experience gathered through direct
contact with users
• (psychologists and sociologists slow on
the uptake; how come?)
NREN image
• NRENs have a reputation of
independent experts
• ... particularly so in the area of network
security (CERT)
• Comment: we use the same word for both
safety and security in Slovenian
• Important position among ISPs
Image improved
• Educating, raising awareness, caring
about security, safety (especially in the
interest of children) … is Good!
• One of the easiest ways to get media
attention (sometimes fighting it)
• Whenever needed, the funding Ministry
can say they’re doing something
An active partner
• Use our influence to shape opinions,
goals and strategies of the project
• (sick and tired of the internet porn hype)
• Don’t want to reduce our role to
centralized content filtering (of bare skin)
while other important aspects are
neglected
• Use the opportunity to pass our
messages
Our own priorities:
• Raising basic awareness:
• Fighting spam
• Fraud, hoax, chainletters..
• Personal data protection
• Learning from good practices
• Surfnet: the billboard campaign
• Simple messages, basic issues – great
effect, positive feedback
Filtering?
• A natural role for NREN (ISP)?
• Definitely wins with politicians
• Mixed public reaction
• We don’t believe in it
• Awareness is Good. Filtering requires
understanding.
• Technology not the solution. Not even
the problem. ☺
A peculiar position
• Techies explain about
• Social aspects
• Psychology
• Raising children
• General awareness is changing
• The scale of SI activities too big for us
• NREN retreats? (what about the image?)