Assistance for Parents and Pedagogues to Protect Children in the Digital Jungle is Needed * Youth Protection Roundtable - YPRT

Berlin (Germany) 11 February (PROTEXT/ots) - An international experts'survey assigns the task to prevent children from encountering unwanted andharmful content on the Internet with highest priority to parents andpedagogues, while policy makers, companies, and the police are seen ascarers with less relevance.

Inadequate sexual content is named by 68% of the respondents as mostharmful followed by unsuitable contacts (58%) and violent content (56%).With social networking communities becoming the most popular area of theInternet for young people, being a victim of privacy fraud becomes mostlikely. 50% of the respondents to the survey carried out by theGerman-based Stiftung Digitale Chancen within the Youth ProtectionRoundtable in 26 European countries judge this as a significant threat.

"In social community sites approved technologies like filter software areless effective. Therefore it is more then ever up to parents and pedagoguesto protect children. But for many adults the digital world is unexploredterrain. While children are on an expedition through the digital jungle,their adult carers need support and advice to preserve them from unexpectedrisks and light-headed online behaviour," says Prof. Dr. Herbert Kubicek,Scientific Director of Stiftung Digitale Chancen.

Therefore the Youth Protection Roundtable develops guidelines for a safeand secure use of the Internet by children and youth. The project builds ondialogue and exchange of views between technical experts and children'swelfare specialists to find suitable solutions for youth protection online.

The YPRT is a network of 32 international partners funded by the EuropeanCommission within the Safer Internet Programme.

Please find the complete survey results and printable graphics underhttp://www.yprt.eu/survey.

Contact:

Stiftung Digitale Chancen

Jutta Croll, Managing Director

Tel.: +49-30-437277-30

E-Mail: jcroll@digitale-chancen.de

Internet: http://www.yprt.eu

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