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Ukraine Safer Internet Day Committee

URL: http://startuem.lg.ua Organisational email address: ukraine.sid@gmail.com

About our SID activities

Since 2014, non-formal lessons on safe internet behaviour have been implemented on this day based on interaction and communication with children and young people across Ukraine. Our goal is to inform children, young people, teachers, youth workers, parents and caregivers about online safety, to discuss threats that could harm people, to identify ways to prevent negative impact of the internet, to share respectful behaviour online, best practices of online participation and to present and discuss information about the No Hate Speech Movement.
 
We deliver our activities to young people through non-formal education methods and children/youth participation in schools, clubs and youth associations.
 
Cooperation with our partner, publishing agency "School World", gives us an opportunity to produce special information materials on child safety online and Safer Internet Day in different journals for schools across Ukraine.
 
The previous SID showed the popularity of the manual "Human rights in the internet" (based on the "Guide to human rights for internet users") which is recognised as a very useful tool for preparing  and implementing activities for children, young people, parents, teachers and NGOs activists. 
 
Inspired by this, we have elaborated a new manual - the guide for pedagogues with exercises for teens and youth on human rights online, successful stories of online participation of children, addressing for help and support, health management during digital device usage. The exercises give a chance to share clear information about online content and behaviour that is illegal as well as the possibility to report alleged illegal content, about protection from interference with your physical, mental and moral welfare, in particular, regarding sexual exploitation and abuse on the internet and other forms of cybercrime. Today, less than month before SID, we have more than 1,870 downloads of the guide by teachers across Ukraine.
 
The results and evidence of our own academic researches give a chance to increase the effectiveness of our practice. According to the results described in the article "Teenager's safe online behaviour and the level of key competencies development", 54.8 per cent of teens answered "I do not get any support from parents on safe internet use". In our opinion, the last high percentage option is caused by the fact that parents are "digital immigrants" and they can not be aware about possible internet treats. Therefore, the large part of SID 2018 activities will focus on non-formal education activities for parents and caregivers, development of their competences on safe online behaviour and possibility to help and support their children. 
 
Supporting the multi-stakeholder approach, at the Youth IGF-UA Pro (organised as a pre-event of the 8th Ukrainian Internet Governance Forum (IGF-UA) and at the IGF-UA itself, held in October 2017 in Kiyv, Ukraine, the representative of the Ukraine Safer Internet Day Committee presented key points on child safety online and shared SID messages. 
 
Each organisation - coordinators of Safer Internet Day activities in the regions of the country fully engage in creation of better internet with governmental and non-governmental partners, industry by providing several activities: scientific  conference on child safety online (Kirovograd), competitions for children (Zaporizhzhya), semіnars for pedagogues and children (Zakarpattya, Zaporizhzhya, Ternopil, Chernihiv, Sumy, Rivne), events and exhibitions for youth (Zhitomyr), round table for the representatives of the IT-industry (Vinnytsia), and so on.
 
Most of the SID activities are planned in the educational institutions. The registration of support for SID2018 in Ukraine is here: http://goo.gl/8uTXna.
 
Activities of SID 2018 will be conducted with a traditional support by the Institute of Modernisation of Educational Content of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.
 
The Ukrainian SID Committee initiative #saferinternetchallenge give an impetus to thousands of children, young people, teachers, parents, media and internet providers to create their own online safety promises for 2018 and to share it through social networks.
 
On the country level, in addition to the hashtags #SID2018 and #SaferInternetDay, we use a Ukrainian version #ДеньБезпечногоІнтернету. 
 
We plan to use the Open Badges system for participants of activities of SID 2018 in Ukraine. Due to the Open Badges system, SID 2018 in Ukraine can become more visible and recognisable among different stakeholders.
 

What we are doing to support the SID 2018 theme of "Create, connect and share respect: A better internet starts with you"…

In 2017, inspired by our five years of work as Safer Internet Day National Committee and the possibility to take part in the creation of the safer internet for all, we established an NGO: "Better Internet Centre". In preparation for Safer Internet Day 2018, we launched the guide for pedagogues with exercises for teens and youth on human rights online, successful stories of online participation of children, addressing for help and support, health management during digital device usage. We started to work on translation and adaptation of researches, UNICEF, Council of Europe reports, INSAFE' manual making them more accessible for everybody in each part of Ukraine: from rural areas to big cities. 
 
We see our role in helping children and young people to be an active part of positive changes in the digital age. We show those sides and opportunities of the internet which lead to personal self-development and self-realisation.
 

Post-SID round up

About the organisation

LYNGO «Start» have been working on the topic of safer internet since April 2013. Our activities are focused on young people and implement  through non-formal education in schools and youth organisations.
  
In 2014 we joined Safer Internet Day as a national Safer Internet Day Committee.  
 
In 2016 we provided an open call to find regional coordinators across Ukraine. Today our team is growing. 
 
Regional coordinators' contact information:
  • Chernihiv region - Bogdana Korovaeva, b.korovaeva@gmail.com (NGO "Horizon");
  • Donetsk region -  Dmytro Kostenko, kostenkodm@ippo.dn.ua (Donetsk Regional Institute of Postgraduate Pedagogical Education);
  • Kyrovograd region – Maryna Chala, marinachala@gmail.com (Kirovohrad Vasyl Sukhomlynsky Regional Institute of Postgraduate Pedagogical Education);
  • Rivne region – Igor Shmyndruk, ishmyndruk@gmail.com (BrainBasket Foundation);
  • Sumy region - Mykhailo Gorkusha, m.yu.gorkusha@gmail.com (Analytical Center "Internet Law UA");
  • Ternopil region - Oleksandra Hrynkiv, alexandra.180771@gmail.com (NGO "Information and Legal Centre "Human Rights");
  • Vinnytsia  region – Ivan Poliukhovych, ivan@cluster.vn.ua (NGO "IT cluster Vinnytsia");
  • Zakarpattya region - Valentina Shevchuk, valentynavshevchuk@gmail.com (Center of Practical Psychology, Social Work and Correctional Education of Zakarpattya Institute of Postgraduate Education);
  • Zaporizhzhya region - Iryna Sokol, sokol28irina@gmail.com (Zaporizhzhya Regional Institute of Postgraduate Pedagogical Education), Kateryna Romanenko, bestforyouth@gmail.com (Youth Network Initiative);
  • Zhitomyr region - Inna Palko, innapal.ko@gmail.com ( NGO "Institute of Creative Innovations").

Additional links/resources

Contact name: Olena Chernykh Contact email address: ukraine.sid@gmail.com