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Welcome
HUWY.eu preview and workshop
Young People’s Experiences and Advice
on Internet Policies
December 3rd, 2009
10:30 – 16:45
e-Science Institute,
15 South College Street,
Edinburgh, UK
http://huwy.eu
Workshop sessions: Key results
WS 2: „Making a difference – how to translate engagement into
chance“
Success factors
- young people bring fresh perspective into policy processes
- governments need to be prepared to listen (problem awareness)
- provide feedback on the outcomes
- managing expectations, clarify limitations
- participation not only about changing policies, but the process
itself can be rewarding (enjoyful, personal development)
- ownership of the process: early involvement of youth
- keep it simple!
But:
There‘s no guarantee that governments will implement proposals 
policy-making remains complex, political and unpredictable
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Workshop sessions: Key results
WS 1: „Do as you say or do as we do“
Research on the Internet:
- school projects, news, career info
- problems: unreliable results, distraction, irrelevant info
Web-based communication
- large portion of online time used for communication purposes,
SNS, IM
- problems: dependency, fake profiles, bullying …
Multimedia: keeping youth from doing home work ;-)
- video & music downlaoding (legal and illegal)
- Youtube: fame, popularisation, …
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WS 1: „Do as you say or do as we do“ (continued)
Q1) Do you have any ideas on how the internet could be regulated?
- apply existing regulation to the internet
- international standards required
- more manpower required to monitor
- more educating than regulating!
Q2) Do you believe the internet is as dangerous as it is made out to
be?
- social transformation caused by the Internet entails fears…
- perceptions might be based on lack of education
- overreaction from media can make things worse
- adults should not underestimate their experience
Q3) How can we educate young people about the dangers of the
internet?
- teaching teachers and parents!
- scare tactics?
- use concrete, real-life examples
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WS 1: „Do as you say or do as we do“ (continued)
Conclusions:
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