Internet campaign
The results of the research “Children’s safety and habits on Internet” realised by PROTEGELES and ACPI and later published by the Spanish Child Ombudsperson revealed the need to inform children in a direct and effective way about the importance of knowing and respecting some basic rules for a safe use of Internet .
Aiming at this target, PROTEGELES, in cooperation with the Spanish telecommunication company, TELEFONICA, has launched an educative and preventive campaign, entitled “Squeeze the Web” (www.exprimelared.com) intended to show children the huge possibilities Internet offers to them as well as some rules and suggestions on how to use to use Internet satisfactorily, preventing counter-productive effects. Moreover, the campaign is also targeting at Teacher-Parents Associations and Secondary School teachers.
During 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 academic years, more than 40.000 students, parents and teachers fr<om 150 schools all over Spain have attended the campaign educative conference talks and have been distributed the materials designed for this specific purpose. At the same time, much more students and teachers are following the on-line courses available at the Campaign’s web-page. Along 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 academic years PROTEGELES will go on with this preventive campaign on at least 100 more schools, thus adding up to more than 250 schools.
PROTEGELES publishes a magazine, titled “CONÉCTATE”, which is distributed among the young population that shares the same objectives as the campaign . CONECTATE magazine lists the most interesting contents for youngsters on the net, including pages with an educative purpose and pages that are just for fun. The magazine also includes some articles about web-pages concerning solidarity, ecology, health and Internet safety that are renewed on every issue.
