[governance] Access and Diversity [IGF 2012 - MAG Consultations]

[Tim Davies]

Hello Imran and others,

I'm also uncomfortable if we frame 'Internet for Kids' as creating some
sort of separate tightly filtered Internet. I would see the task of
focussing on the Internet for Children much more as a question of ensuring
there is positive content available to children in engaging online and
making positive choices, rather than adults choosing to control children's
and young people's access to information with filtered online spaces.

I think a language of Children's Rights is useful here, and the ideas Imran
suggest below, might fit into the proposal I put in the Human Rights thread
for reframing 'Child Protection' as a 'Children's Rights' thread. Below is
what I said in that thread about the value in taking a Children's Rights
approach to these issues:

"On the suggestion for (11) on 'Online child protection', I would really
like to see this framed as 'Children's Rights: Protection, Provision and
Participation', rather than solely 'child protection', particularly as this
is falling under a 'human rights' heading.

I've written a bit on the justification for this at
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/23226/ - but essentially, when we adopt
narrow narratives of 'online child protection' we end up (a) neglecting
children and young people's broader set of rights to be active participants
on the web, and to safe and supportive online provision; and (b) we adopt
counter-productive strategies which don't even serve the intended goals of
keeping young people safe from harm online. "

All the best

Tim


On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Fatima Cambronero <
fatimacambronero at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> 2012/2/21 McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com>
>
>> On 2/21/12, Imran Ahmed Shah <ias_pk at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> > Thanks Sala for your comments,
>> > This idea is derived from one of my friend/collegue, and we were
>> discussing
>> > that it is very hard to configure kids PCs for safe online surfing,
>> > configuring the Firewall and Parental Protection kind of things, or
>> using
>> > the Kids-Safe-Online utilities individually obtained. Why not we devise
>> some
>> > governance for the provisioning of allowing just a single browser to
>> Kids
>> > Login, and a dedicated Search Engine that could provide the confidence
>> of
>> > Certified Clean Websites only related to the Kids.
>>
>>
>> Wouldn't this violate their Human Rights?  (Access to
>> Knowledge/Information/Right to Communicate).
>>
>
>
> And what about their privacy? Do children have no Right to Privacy?
>
> From what age do children acquire the right to privacy?
>
>
>
> Fatima
>
>
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>>
>> McTim
>> "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
>> route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
>>
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