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[Carolina Rossini]

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Subject: Children and Mobile Technology - Online Course
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*Children and Mobile Technology - Online Capacity Building Course*

*This seven-week online course
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is offered by the GSMA’s Capacity Building in Mobile Sector Regulation
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initiative, in cooperation with DiploFoundation. The course is aimed
primarily at staff and management of national telecommunications regulatory
authorities. Participation in this course is fully funded by the GSMA.*

Children and young people are among the most avid users of mobile
technologies, which can have a tremendous positive impact on their lives.
Like any tool, however, mobile technologies can be used to cause harm, and
parents, governments and industry have a role in protecting and supporting
children who are connected. This course looks at the issue from several
angles, including cultural differences regarding children’s use of mobile
devices, child online protection and whether regulation is necessary.

Course topics include:

   - Children in the digital age
   - Rights, opportunities, and risks
   - Policies, roles, and responsibilities
   - Online child sexual abuse
   - Combatting online child sexual abuse
   - Formulating a national strategy for child online safely


*Learning methodology*
Combining the GSMA’s expertise on children and mobile technology with
Diplo’s highly interactive online learning methodology, this course is
conducted entirely online over seven weeks. Reading materials and tools for
online interaction are provided through an online classroom. Each week,
participants read an assigned module text, adding questions and comments as
hypertext entries. The course tutor, guest experts, and other participants
read and respond to these entries, creating interaction based on the module
text. Participants complete short quizzes and join online meetings to
discuss the week’s topic. During the final week, participants complete a
written assignment designed to help them apply course topics to their own
context. The course requires *five to six hours* of study time per week.

*Who should apply*
This course is aimed primarily at staff and management of national
telecommunications regulatory authorities. Priority will be given to
applicants from developing countries. Applications from professionals
working in other institutions or fields relevant to child online protection
will be considered if places remain in the course session.

Participation is fully funded by the GSMA. There is no tuition fee for
selected applicants.

*Course reviews*

*I can honestly say that I have gotten a wealth of knowledge from this
course. These tools will now help me to be better able to contribute to the
Internet landscape in my country; something I intend to do without delay.*
-Ervin Williams, Director of the National Telecommunications Regulatory
Commission, St Kitts and Nevis

*This course has provided me with some necessary tools required to address
child online protection; furthermore it established appropriate networks.
The most practical thing that I can take away from this course is the
sample strategy, this will be the basis on which a child online protection
initiative or even cybersecurity can be founded.*
- Cecily Faasau, Legal Counsel, Office of the Regulator, Samoa

*How to apply*
Please visit http://www.diplomacy.edu/courses/children
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to read more and apply online. The next course starts on *1 February 2016*.
Apply by *11 January 2016*.

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