About our SID activities

The Hungarian Safer Internet Centre will celebrate Safer Internet Day 2018 by organising a conference attended by students, stakeholders, professionals and the press on 6 February 2018. The event will take place in the Graphisoft Park, where Microsoft Hungary will hosts us.

For this event we are planning several exciting activities, both formal and informal.

• Award ceremony for the digital storytelling and literary competition. This competition's aim was to encourage students to create and write their thoughts about the digital future. The competitions theme was: "Digital future with a child's eye, or what can I do for a better internet?". The competition details are available here.
   
• We are also planning three Skype meetings with our friends from other Safer Intenet Centres (SICs) across Europe.
   
• Living Library, where numerous experts in different areas will present their aims, their work, and their opinions. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and discuss with them in small groups. Our guests are experts in different fields such as social media, helplines and media. Among them, we will also invite our Youth Panellists, vloggers, ethical hackers, cybercrime specialists, and so on. For those who cannot attend the event, they will be able to join the conversation via Facebook, where we will be streaming the Living Library.
   
• In the end, the participants can choose from different activities, such as playing with our giant Likehunter game, or playing video games.

In parallel with this event, a number of schools around the country have applied to join this movement, so our trainers will be touring the country to provide training sessions and interactive lessons.

What we are doing to support the SID 2018 theme of "Create, connect and share respect: A better internet starts with you"…

We gave children the opportunity to explain what the digital future means for them, and what they can really do for a better internet. That was the purpose of the digital storytelling and literary competition. With this competition we motivated children to think together, to create together and to sharing their respect for each other.

This videos and stories will be made available after SID 2018 on our website and Facebook profile.

Post-SID round up

• The digital future through a child's eye – SID 2018 in Hungary (blog article on the Better Internet for Kids (BIK) portal)
• Participating in a "Live Library" on SID 2018 (blog article on the Better Internet for Kids (BIK) portal)

About the organisation

NGYSZ is one of the most important non-government welfare organisations in Hungary, established in 1990. It hosts several projects in order to provide financial, social and health-related support to children in need. Apart from supporting foster-parents, healthcare and coding programmes, it also acts as coordinator of the Hungarian Safer Internet Consortium in order to turn the public attention to safer and more conscious internet use.