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EUR4 Building confidence and security in the use of telecommunications/ICTs

Objectives adopted by the WTDC - 14: To build trust and confidence in the use of ICTs among children and young people in Europe.

Achieved results

Knowledge of more than 100 professionals built on a broad spectrum of issues related to the safety of children and young people on the Internet.
Capacity of more than 100 professionals and policy and decision makers built on the the current trends and challenges in the area of cybersecurity.

Expected results adopted by WTDC-14

Assistance to the countries in need in the following:
1) Utilizing the existing knowledge on risk and vulnerabilities to which children are exposed in cyberspace and providing best practices
2) Providing a platform to raise awareness on child online protection (COP) and safety issues
3) Developing and implementing roadmaps for national or regional COP initiatives.

Activities

Events:

International Conference for Europe on "Keeping children and young people safe online", 22-23 September 2015, Warsaw, Poland;
Central European Cybersecurity public-private dialogue platform events, 23-26 September 2015, Sibiu, Romania;

Other activities:

Update of the Guidelines for Children and Parents on Child Online Protection and translation of the Guidelines in Serbo-Croatian language.

Implementation plan agreed by 2015 Regional Development Forum

Planned set of actions for 2015-2107

Projects

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Implementation partners

Ministry of National Education of Poland
Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland
Ministry of Administration and Digitization of Poland
Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications of Serbia
Office of the Ombudsman for Children, Poland
Office for Electronic Communications of Poland
Polish and German Safer Internet Centres (collaboration under European Commission's Safer Internet Program)
Orange Foundation
Swiss Webacademy in Romania
CERT-RO