Safer Internet Day

SAFE.SI Slovenia

The Slovenian Safer Internet Center SAFE-SI is celebrating Safer Internet Day for the 8th year now, this year with a large campaign in Slovenian schools and with the key message of online rights and responsabilities: 

• Celebrating the whole month of February as a “Safer Internet Month” with different activities created and implemented. The activities and events are  organised in close cooperation with different stakeholders and project supporters ; 
• Central focus on the national level will be given to the promotion of safe and responsible use of mobile devices;
• The intense collaboration with national mobile phone operators is expected in order to launch a joint promotional campaign. Many promotional and educational materials are prepared: videospots with a famos Slovenian comedian, posters for school libraries, mobile phone cleaners for teens, new workshops for pupils ...;
• NAC has been the leader of the working group with national mobile phone operators and ISP’s with the aim to improve and amend the existing Self-regulatory Code of Practice of Slovene Public Mobile Electronic Communication Service Operators for Safer Mobile Use of Younger Teenagers and Children signed in 2009. The signature of amended version of this Code will take place on 5th of February 2013;
• A central event with round table, presentations for teachers and workshops for pupils and students will take place on 5th of February 2013. Here the national youth panel will be activly involved;
• Activities for schools: schools are joining SID 2013 celebrations and registering for an online package with activities for schools;
• Collaborating with other national projects dealing with ICT, such as national “E-education project” and “Safe on the Internet”;
• Conducting a number of trainings for parents/teachers and workshops for pupils in cooperation with different stakeholders;
• Launching a different Facebook campaigns, encouraging our fans to be actively involved in discussions and exchange of their views and opinions. Additionally, new FB application will be launched for teenagers in order to check how safely and responsible they use mobile devices.
•  More activities can be found here.

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Online rights and responsibilities: 

Online, I have the freedom to express myself freely, without being discriminated against, but at the same time knowing that certain limits of expression and speech should exist (as they do in offline environments). And that speech, such as incitiment to hatred and violence, should not be tolerated online. 

I have a responsibility to try to treat others online in the same way I would treat them in offline environments - respectfully. As I would not be rude (or shocking, nasty, insulting and abusive) to a person offline, so will I not be rude towards them online.  

At the same time, I realize that most of the internet consists not of public spaces, but of private forums, chat rooms, social networks and such, and that the people who run these sites, have the right to establish their own set of rules and regulations (»my house, my rules«), which I have to follow, while on their site. I also have the right to establish my own space on the internet, where I can spread ideas and views freely. 

I realize that internet is inherently a democratic medium and is enormously beneficial for humanity as a whole, and that it should never be monopolized and dominated by any power. 

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SAFE.SI has been a national Awareness Centre since 2005 with the aim to promote the protection and education of children and teenagers using the Internet and new online technologies.

Slovenian Safer Internet Centre has three components:

• SAFE.SI - awareness centre - www.safe.si

• SPLETNO OKO - hotline for illegal content - www.spletno-oko.si

• TOM TELEFON - helpline for children, teenagers and parents 116 111 - www.e-tom.si

The Slovenian Safer Internet Centre is run in a consortium of four partners: the Faculty of Social Sciences at Universtiy of Ljubljana, the Slovenian Friends of Youth Association ZPMS, Youth Information and Counseling Center of Slovenia MISSS and the Academic and Research Network of Slovenia ARNES.