Vivendi

Janice Richardson, Senior Advisor, European Schoolnet; coordinator of the Insafe network (ASDR 2009)

Young Europeans’ point of view at their digital practices

«Young people are the innovators when it comes to using online technology and very often the unexpected applications they come up with not only open new learning opportunities but very often also give rise to new risks.
The Insafe Pan-European Youth Panel for online safety, whose fi rst face-to-face meeting in October 2009 was made possible by the co-sponsorship of Vivendi, has set the cornerstone for the work to be carried out by the Insafe network for the coming year. It provided an invaluable opportunity for awareness raising teams from 27 countries in Europe to look at online safety issues from a young person’s perspective and understand what today’s youth expect from their parents and teachers to help them handle the challenges they encounter in the virtual world.
The three-day meeting highlighted the added value of working together at the European level, benefi ting from cultural diversity to enrich and empower tomorrow’s leaders in our global society. Insafe’s partnership with Vivendi is proving to be a rewarding experience in many other areas too, and providing unique knowledge-building opportunities in an extremely complex field.»