Celebrating Safer Internet Day in Iceland

For the celebration of Safer Internet Day 2018, the Icelandic Safer Internet Centre (SIC) planned multiple activities, all with focus on this year's slogan: "Create, connect and share respect: A better internet starts with you".

Date 2018-03-25 Author Icelandic Safer Internet Centre Section awareness, sid
All activities were organised by the SIC consortium (Home and school – National parental organisation, Red Cross Iceland, Safe the Children Iceland and the National Police) in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Welfare, Ministry of Interior and the University of Iceland.
 
A conference was organised in collaboration with the University of Reykjavik and the City of Reykjavik. On the agenda were issues ranging from the psychology of social media and smart devices, to screen time of our youngest users. Discussions involved a range of experts and a range of users, with youth panellists also forming part of the audience. In total, over 200 people attended the conference and over 400 participated online, making it by far the biggest Safer Internet Day conference in Iceland to date.
 
Prior to Safer Internet Day, the SIC had developed over 20 new teaching modules, for all age groups, on a variety of topics such as fake news, hate speech, sexting, digital citizenship, online bullying and streaming. Several new posters, along with parental and school guidelines, were also published as part of the Safer Internet Day campaign. A notification was sent to all schools and all parental organisations in Iceland to announce the availability of the new materials.
 
Also on Safer Internet Day, the SIC launched a new web page (saft.is), published several papers for the printed media, and were interviewed by all the major radio and TV stations on this year's SID activities.
 
See the Icelandic Safer Internet Day profile page for further information.
 
Find out more about the work of the Icelandic Safer Internet Centre (SIC), including its awareness raising, helpline, hotline and youth participation services.

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