ICT and CyberCyber-Children
Shanghai ExpoExpo-Ningbo, China
May 15, 2010
“ICT and Urban Life”
Honorable Deborah Taylor Tate
ITU WTISD Laureate 2009
DIGI--ZENS:
DIGI
ARE WE RAISING GOOD CITIZENS FOR THE DIGITAL
AGE?
Global Cybersecurity and the world’s
children
International Rights of Children
• UN Resolution 44/25 WSIS
• ITU: “Building confidence and security in use of ICTs”
• Specifically recognized needs of children and protection in
cyberspace
• Tunis Commitment: “the role of ICTs in protection of
children… and protect children from abuse and defend
their rights in the context of ICTs”
• High Level Segment ITU: Adoption COP Initiative
TUNIS COMMITMENT
“We recognize the role of information and
communication technologies (ICT) in the
protection of children and in enhancing the
development of children. We will strengthen
action to protect children from abuse and
defend their rights in the context of ICT.”
UN Secretary General
Ban KiKi-Moon
"I welcome the
ITU's Child Online
Protection
Initiative and I
urge all States to
support it."
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Queen Silvia of Sweden
• "We must work
together like never
before if we are to
protect our children.
In cyberspace, we
really are only as
strong as our weakest
link; we are only as
secure as our weakest
hub."
World Telecommunications and
Information and Society Day
2009 Laureates
• ITU Sec.Gen.Toure
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“Call to Action”
Historic emphasis
on children and ICT
President Lula,
Brazil
GSMA Association
Laureates for Child
Online Emphasis
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25 years ago:
• The internet was used by 900 US officials
• Cell phones: CostCost- $3,500 WeightWeight- 5 lbs.
• 4 connection sites in world
• Bill Gates was in college
• Computers took up an entire room
• No google, skype, iphone or ring tones
Positive Benefit:
Investment =
Connectivity= Investment
• Worldwide Telecom revenues estimated at $ 3.5
trillion in 2007, and is expected to grow 10%
annually.
• 34% Germany/Italy access internet mobile
• 24.4% increase in internet access revenue
• 300 million mobile connections worldwide.
• $1.3 trillion in wireless revenue projected in 2011.
Increased Broadband
Penetration
$1.5 Trillion by 2020
$3.8 trillion global
economy annually
75% non English
Shopping up 85% EU
Benefits of Broadband
• E-Health
• Remote and Distance
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Learning.
Civil participation
E Government
E-Agriculture
E-COMMERCE!
Pitfalls: Personal Financial Cybercrime
“…I the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria on this day
issued the release of your forty two million United States dollars
($42,000,000.00) contract payment by classified bank draft.”
Cybersecurity Costs?
$1 Trillion
What is the cost to our Children?
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Cyberbullying
Identity theft, cheating, fraud
Accidents (driving while texting)
Digital Footprints eternaleternal-job/college
Economic cost
Suicide
Addictive behaviors (gaming/online)
Criminal convictions (sxtng)
But risks to our children:
Screen Time already 22
hours/week! (U.S.)
Total screen time increasing
Younger going online earlier!
What is happenening online….
• What Many Parents Don’t
Know
– most of children are willing to
share personal information about
themselves and their family in
exchange for goods and services
– children are increasingly being
targeted by online predators.
• What are the online risks?
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Pornography
Violence
Online Gaming & Addiction
Online Fraud
Cyber-bulling
Racism
Child Internet Safety
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between 1 in 7 and 1 in 25 children have been solicited online.
28% of online teens have created their own blog.
27% maintain their own webpage.
39% share their own artwork, photos, stories or videos online.
41% of teens who use MySpace, Facebook, or other social
networking sites send messages to their friends everyday through
these sites
– 42% of children have been bullied online, and 1 in 4 has had it
happen more than once
– 89% solicitation in “chat rooms”
“Tween”
Statistics
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Online earlier (3 in 5 by age 7)
All screen time increasingincreasing-90% tweens
1 in 10 online over 3 hrs/day (21+22=43)
Personal info sharedshared-social networking
Unknown contacts (11% total strangers)
Cyberbullying: mental issues/suicide
Posting personal info/sxting etc.
Future problems: Digital footprint forever….
Research shows technology can be
Positive for our youth:
• Improving academic performance
• Creating and sharing their own creative
works online
• Helping students with learning issues
• Keeping kids actively engaged (Chicago
Pilot)
Negative Impacts as well
• Utilizing technology for cheating in school
• Hacking into another teen’s account and
stealing their identity
• Cyberbullying
• Suicide (U.S. middle school students)
What can YOU do?
• Just as in the offline world, we must teach
our children and youth more than technical
skills of keyboards
• Curriculum must include “digital literacy”
• “Right” from “Wrong”/Civil discourse
• Empowerment
• Anti
Anti--bullying and emotional control
• Privacy of personal information
2009 Internet Porn statistics
• 1st Internet exposure =11
= 11 yrs. Avg.
• 90% (8(8-16) usually doing homework
• 26 Child characters (Pokemon etc) link to
thousands of websites
• 116,000 daily “child porn” requests
• $4.9 B. industry
Not merely U.S.
Today….. A Global Issue
• Over 1.5 Billion Internet users worldwide
• 400 million broadband and growing!
• Not just developed nations…..
• Asia
600 M
• Latin America
130 M
• Africa
50 M
• China
19m YOUTH!!
First Lady of Egypt
Suzanne Mubarak
• E-safety Family Kit
• spark discussions about
security, privacy, respect, codes
of conduct
• guides families with children
aged between 6 and 12 years
through the basics of the
internet via the story of two
youngsters, their parents and
the IT genius.
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Color--coded chapters highlight
four key ee-safety themes:
Security, Communication, Cyber
bullying and Entertainment.
China Protecting Children
• "China Youth Online Safety Association" by over 40 domestic website
companies in 2004.
http://www.btjyw.com/html/2004/12/20041214204208--1.htm
http://www.btjyw.com/html/2004/12/20041214204208
• "Healthy Internet" by eight governmental departments, the action
participated by many media and telecommunications companies.
http://www.ccyl.org.cn/documents/zqlf/200611/t20061128_1594.htm
• Annual National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political
Consultative Conference by representatives from varied provinces and
industries of China.
• Scholars and researchers publishing essays since 2000
• West Africa ICT,
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Ghana.
• APEC
APEC--TEL,
Bangkok.
• Ministers of:
China, Egypt,
Australia,
Brazil, Japan,
Vietnam
1st Congress
Gijon, Spain
International Child Safety
Organizations and Nonprofits
Int’l Center for Missing and Exploited Children
COMMON SENSE MEDIA
iKEEPSAFE Coalition
ITU Child Online Protection Initiative (COP)
Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI)
GSMA--Mobile Alliance Against Child Sexual Abuse
GSMA
Content
More………
ITU Secretary General Hamadoun
Toure announces “COP”
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COP-- International Collaboration
COP
• Children’s Charities’Coalition on Internet Safety
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Child Helpline Internation (CHI)
International Centre for Missing and Exploited
Chidlren (ICMEC)
Interpol
United National Interregional Crime and Justice
Research Institute (UNICRI)
UNICEF
YOUR ORGANIZATION!
Terms of Reference of COP Initiative
• Liase with world organizations: addadd-on to global
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conferences, international fora, workshops
Global awareness, information and tools
Emerging trends and gaps: More Research
Build global resource repository/best practices
Facilitate international strategic partnerships
emphasizing multimulti-stakeholder
approach=concrete deliverables (2010)
Support/strengthen Member States enforcement
investigative tools (draft templates)
Guidelines for Policymakers,
Parents, Educators and YOUTH
available and FREE (6 UN
languages)
Market Solutions: Self regulatory
• Opt in vs. opt out
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at sale/”Locked”
Software/other
No behavior ads
Limited internet
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Parent Monitor
“Playground
monitors”
Must engage YOUTH: Peer to peer
Global Youth Forum Geneva
The Human Factor = Secret
Ingredient
– Security is not a checklist, it is a culture
– To create the culture of security we must
deliver engaging and inspiring awareness and
education resources
– People must be empowered not instilled with
fear
常识媒介
Common Sense Media
Shanghai ExpoExpo-Ningbo Forum
MySecureCyberspace -Carnegie
Mellon CyLab
Next Steps
• A global survey was also initiated to
determine the current scope of online
child safety policy and legal
frameworks across the world
Sharing the Survey
• The next phases of the COP initiative are
currently being developed within the ITU,
consulting closely with partners
Click for free brochure in 6
languages: www.itu.int/cop
For more Information:
• Child Online Protection Initiative (COP)
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http://www.itu.int/cop
www.commonsensemedia.org (school curriculum)
World Telecommunication & Information Society Day
http://www.itu.int/wtisd/index.html
Cybersecurity, Spam and Cybercrime: Confidence and
security in the use of ICTs
http://www.itu.int/cybersecurity
ITU Global Cybersecurity Agenda
http://www.itu.int/cybersecurity/gca
Thank you for helping protect
the world’s children
The Leaders of Tomorrow...