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Activity Details (ID# 15567) |
| Title: | Pan-European Forum on Human Rights in the Information Society: Empowering children and young people |
| Description: | Council of Europe Pan-European Forum organised in cooperation
with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia and the Information Technologies Foundation of Armenia Human Rights in the Information Society: Empowering children and young people Governmental Reception House in Yerevan, Armenia 5 and 6 October 2006 Introduction The Council of Europe invites all interested representatives of states, industry (e.g. internet service providers, mobile phone operators, etc), civil society, media, and all other organisations, institutions and experts, to take part in this Pan-European Forum. In the light of the Council of Europe priorities concerning the protection of children and the Recommendation Rec(2006)12 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on empowering children in the new information and communications environment, this Forum will examine ways and means to best inform and equip children and young people (and also their educators) with the skills needed to exercise (and to enjoy) their human rights and to deal responsibly with on-line content and behaviours which carry a risk of harm. This multi-stakeholder event will bring together a number of key actors to consider how best stakeholders can provide and facilitate effective information literacy and training to children, young people and their educators. Final programme: Thursday 5 October 2006 Chairpersons: Mr Garegin Chookaszian, Executive Director, Information Technologies Foundation, Armenia Mr David Sandukhchyan, Internews, Arménia 09:30 Opening statements: H.E. Mr. Vartan Oskanian, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Armenia Mr Hanno Hartig, Head of Department, Department for Minorities, Media and Equality, Directorate General of Human Rights – DGII, France 10:00 Key note speech: The interplay between human rights, media literacy and empowerment – an area of conflict or an area of hope? Ms Susanne Krucsay, Head of department Media Pedagogy/Educational Media/Media Service in the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, Austria ; Editor-in-chief of the media journal MEDIENIMPULSE 10:20 General rapporteur: Information and media literacy: resistance and obstacles to scaling up Ms Divina Frau-Meigs, International Association for Media and Communications Research (AIERI / IAMCR), France 10:40 Coffee, tea 11:00 Session one: Looking to the Future The potential and challenges for children, young people and their eductaors in the Information Society - what knowledge and skills will they need? Moderator: Mr Trond Waage, Senior Fellow, UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Florence, Italy, http://www.unicef.org/research/index.html This session will discuss and reflect upon the Information Society impact and effects on European childhood; how to minimize the risks and increase the potential of the Information Society?; how to empower children in order to manage the information flow; identifying the emerging trends in on-line and related off-line content and behaviours?; looking at the key actors who impact on these trends?; the application of children’s rights; building a Europe for and with children; how do we support young people when, in many senses, they are the experts?; what knowledge and skills do children, young people and their educators need to respond to the challenges? Is there a need for information literacy training? Panellists: Ms Joanne Bryce, Director of Research, Cyberspace Research Unit, University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom Mr Frank Huysmans, Professor, University of Amsterdam, Media Studies, Archives and Information Studies, the Netherlands Ms Birthe Linddal Hansen, Master of Social Sciences, Roskilde University, the Netherlands Mr Vitor Reia-Baptista, Professor, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal Young people: Parasiewicz Agatha – Tonoyan Maneh - Toporovschi Tatiana - Wolsgard Hanne 13:00 Lunch 15:00 Session two: Looking at the current situation Skilling, Tooling and Timing - how do we currently inform and equip children, young people and their educators with knowledge and skills in the Information Society? Moderator: Mr Will Gardner, Research and Policy Manager, Childnet International, United Kingdom, http://www.childnet-int.org This session, which will include a moderator and several panellists with participation from the audience, could include reference to: who needs to be empowered, and what does empowerment mean in the context of the Information Society?; what current methods/practices are used to inform and equip children, young people and their educators, with reference to the core elements of literacy training programmes?; who are the key actors responsible for informing and equipping children, young people and their educators?; how are human rights integrated into current methods to inform and equip children/young people/educators? Panellists: Ms Ann Katrin Agebäck, Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, Sweden Ms Alenka Begant, Présidente, EIP School for peace, Slovenia, http://www.eip.ass.si Mr Marcus Leaning, Lecturer, School of Creative Arts and Humanities, Trinity College University of Wales, United Kingdom Ms Isabelle Leung-Tack, Corporate Social Responsibility Manager, Microsoft France Ms Alexandra Maier, Primary teacher, Lecturer in teacher training, Austria Mr Viesturs Pless, Managing Director, Latvian Internet Association, Latvia Young people: Parasiewicz Agatha – Tonoyan Maneh - Toporovschi Tatiana - Wolsgard Hanne 17:00 Close of day one 18:00 Cocktail reception Friday 6 October 2006 09:30 Session three: Towards meaningful and effective empowerment Reviewing best practices and their transferability: where are we heading for meaningful and effective information and literacy skills for children, young people and their educators? Moderator: Mr. Abdelaziz Abid, Senior Programme Specialist, Information Society Division - Universal Access and Preservation Section (CI/INF/UAP), UNESCO, France This session, which will include a moderator and several panellists with participation from the audience, will discuss best practices in empowering children in the Information Society; how do we make sure that children, young people and their educators are well informed and skilled?; what best practices in fighting illegal, harmful and offensive digital content via the Internet and mobile phones?; understanding what is meaningful and effective empowerment; how to measure and evaluate the efficacy of empowerment practices and policies?; raising awareness, self-regulation and codes of conduct to provide children with quality education, to protect them and protect their rights for access to quality information, freedom of expression and other human rights; what roles for parents, teachers, policy makers and the private sector with regard to the notions of safe management, trust-building and accountability of stakeholders? Panellists: Ms Eva Golovinska, Senior Expert, State Agency for Child Protection under the Council of Ministers, Bulgaria Ms Rachel O’Connell, Head of Corporate and Social Responsibility, Bebo.com, United Kingdom, www.bebo.com Ms Zdravka Pejova, independent Information Professional, Slovenia Ms Agnieszka Wrzesien, Project Coordinator, Awareness Node Poland, EU Safer Internet Programme, Nobody's Children Foundation, Poland, Nobody's Children Foundation, Safer Internet Programme in Poland Young people: Parasiewicz Agatha – Tonoyan Maneh - Toporovschi Tatiana - Wolsgard Hanne 11:00 Pause 11:45 Session four: reflections by the key note speaker, general rapporteur; moderators This session, which will be moderated by the chairperson with participation from the audience, could include reference to: what is meaningful and effective empowerment; possible roles and responsibilities of key actors, both individually and collectively, in empowering children young people and their educators; recommendations on next steps. 12:15 Conclusions and final statements 13:00 Close of the Forum. - Original Location: Erevan, Armenia |
| Status: | Completed |
| Date: | 05/10/2006 - 06/10/2006 |
| Countries: | All Council of Europe member states, United Nations |
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| Programme: | CoE Programmes (PoA and VC) |
| Working Method: | Organisation of meetings - Steering Committees / Supervisory Bodies |
| Location: | Yerevan, Armenia |
| CoE Contact: | HIBBARD, Lee email |
| Partners: | Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia - National Institution |
| Web Pages: | 1 http://www.coe.int/media |
| Last Modified: | 19/01/2007 |
Activity Synopsis |
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| Objective(s): | To consider the ways and means to best inform and equip children and young people, and also their educators, with the skills needed to exercise their human rights as well as to responsibly deal with on-line content and behaviours carrying a risk of harm.
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| Output/Results: | Action Lines and General Report prepared. These provide the participating key state and non-state actors with guidance and objectives on what and how to develop and sustain the empowerment of children and young people in accordance with CoE Recommendation No. R (2006) 012 on the same subject.
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| Conclusions/Follow Up: | The CDMC took note of the General Report and Action Lines and agreed to convey them to the Committee of Ministers with a view to bringing them to the attention of the relevant authorities of member States.
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| Participants: | Approximately 50 international participants including several state representatives and other experts from the academic, civil society, industry sectors and other international organisation sectors.
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| Consultants/Experts: | Ms Divina Frau-Meigs, International Association for Media and Communications Research (AIERI / IAMCR), France
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| CoE Secretariat: | Mr Hanno Hartig, Head of Minorities, Media and Equality Department, Directorate General of Human Rights - DG II
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| Total No. Participants: | 70 |
| Last Modified: | 19/01/2007 |