Heparin
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- Sep 24, 2021
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Kuanzia hatua za awali katika ukuaji, Watoto wanapaswa kufundishwa Haki, Wajibu na Hatari zinazoweza kutokea wasipotumia vizuri Majukwaa ya Kimtandao.
Huwajengea hali ya Uwajibikaji na Tabia Njema zinazowafanya kuwa Raia wema wawapo Mtandaoni.
Kama Mzazi/Mlezi, umechukua hatua zipi katika kumwandaa Mtoto kuwa Raia mwema Mtandaoni?
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No group has been more affected than children by the communications revolution of the internet age. In affluent countries, online communication is now embedded in children’s lives from their earliest years; in the UK, for example children aged 5–15 are spending two hours online each day. Many poorer countries, particularly the larger emerging economies, are catching up.
For better or worse, the internet will soon be inseparable from the personal development and social lives of the large majority of children worldwide. This brings multiple benefits: access to information, opportunities for self-expression, wider horizons of awareness, and a radically extended scope for social interaction. It also exposes children to much-publicised, new risks, including exploitation and abuse by adult users, cyber-bullying by peers, and over-use.
Faced with these rapid advances, policymaking has been reactive and fragmented. The policy agenda is typically set without consulting children or assessing its impact on them, and without regard to children’s legal rights. In particular, policy intended to protect children from online abuse and over-use, while welcome in principle, has often cut children off from the benefits of the digital age, to which they have an equal right alongside adults.
This briefing brings a children’s rights perspective to these issues, concluding that the duty to safeguard children and their right of access to the internet are not in opposition; there is no need to cut children off from their world to protect them from it. By combining digital literacy education with the principles of informed consent, a rights-based approach can integrate children’s right to be protected with their right to use the internet freely.
The implications of the digital age for children’s rights, particularly those set out in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), have yet to be worked out in detail. Nonetheless, it is clear that the internet revolution engages all Convention rights. This briefing focuses on four groups of rights:
Huwajengea hali ya Uwajibikaji na Tabia Njema zinazowafanya kuwa Raia wema wawapo Mtandaoni.
Kama Mzazi/Mlezi, umechukua hatua zipi katika kumwandaa Mtoto kuwa Raia mwema Mtandaoni?
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No group has been more affected than children by the communications revolution of the internet age. In affluent countries, online communication is now embedded in children’s lives from their earliest years; in the UK, for example children aged 5–15 are spending two hours online each day. Many poorer countries, particularly the larger emerging economies, are catching up.
For better or worse, the internet will soon be inseparable from the personal development and social lives of the large majority of children worldwide. This brings multiple benefits: access to information, opportunities for self-expression, wider horizons of awareness, and a radically extended scope for social interaction. It also exposes children to much-publicised, new risks, including exploitation and abuse by adult users, cyber-bullying by peers, and over-use.
Faced with these rapid advances, policymaking has been reactive and fragmented. The policy agenda is typically set without consulting children or assessing its impact on them, and without regard to children’s legal rights. In particular, policy intended to protect children from online abuse and over-use, while welcome in principle, has often cut children off from the benefits of the digital age, to which they have an equal right alongside adults.
This briefing brings a children’s rights perspective to these issues, concluding that the duty to safeguard children and their right of access to the internet are not in opposition; there is no need to cut children off from their world to protect them from it. By combining digital literacy education with the principles of informed consent, a rights-based approach can integrate children’s right to be protected with their right to use the internet freely.
The implications of the digital age for children’s rights, particularly those set out in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), have yet to be worked out in detail. Nonetheless, it is clear that the internet revolution engages all Convention rights. This briefing focuses on four groups of rights:
- The right to privacy and the right to be forgotten;
- The right of access to information and the right to education;
- The right to be safeguarded from abuse; and
- The right to freedom of expression and the right to be heard.