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The Fix This team chatted with the nonprofit Childnet International and educational technology (EdTech) company 2Simple about Safer Internet Day. Kate Jones, deputy chief executive officer at Childnet, explains how the organization creates content to empower educators, parents, and youth to have conversations about online safety. Next, Jacob Doran, head of technology at 2Simple, shares how the organization uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) to scale and store their educational resources for their learning platform Purple Mash. With Purple Mash, students can play games and watch videos to learn how to remain safe while online.
Will Gardner, CEO of London-based Childnet International, has been working in online safety for children for >20 years and has a great deal of insight not just about protecting kids but empowering them. This was an upbeat and optimistic conversation about a wide variety of topics ranging from sexting to youth activism.
Will Gardner, CEO of London-based Childnet International, has been working in online safety for children for >20 years and has a great deal of insight not just about protecting kids but empowering them. This was an upbeat and optimistic conversation about a wide variety of topics ranging from sexting to youth activism.
Top tips to support parents and Carers keeping their children safe online. Episode is published with special permission from Childnet International (www.childnet.com) and the printed version of this episode can be found at https://www.childnet.com/resourc
In this Safeguarding Podcast we discuss Brexit and the impact it could have on the safeguarding of children in the online digital context. With contributions from Baroness Sal Brinton, President Liberal Democrats; Will Gardner, CEO Childnet International; David Wright, Director UK SIC & SWGfL; Rudd Apsey, Director Digital Policy Alliance; former Chief Superintendent Met Police Dal Babu; researcher, broadcaster and lecturer Dr Holly Powell-Jones; Jonny Shipp, Director the Internet Commission; Stephen Balkam, CEO FOSI; John Carr OBE; Susie Hargreaves OBE, CEO IWF; Fred Langford CTO IWF.
In this safeguarding podcast, Will Gardner CEO of Childnet International discusses international aspects of safeguarding in the online digital context. We explore international projects such as Project deShame, how young people can be empowered to protect themselves and other young people online, the power of young people's voices and how they can be heard, Brexit, the Online Harms white paper, Childnet's film competition and Safer Internet Day.
We're joined by Tom Pinfield, Senior Education Officer at Childnet International, to talk about how to ensure that children and young people stay safe online. Also, in the news this week - more than a half of schools not GDPR compliant, teachers using their own money to buy school resources and more...
Will Gardner is the CEO of Childnet International, based in the United Kingdom. He also sits on Facebook's Safety Advisory Board. He believes that in order to protect our kids, we have no option but to try and stay ahead of the curve, and be involved in our childrens' online lives.
For our radio broadcast rehearsal at the West of England ICT Conference 2017, the children were lucky enough to be able to interview Will Gardner, key speaker at the conference and CEO of Childnet International.