Telefono Azzurro , one of Italy’s main child protection NGOs, does amazing work on behalf of missing and sexually exploited children and their families. Last year, we donated a Google Search Appliance - essentially the Google ‘search engine in a box’ - to improve information retrieval on their internal network and make it easier to search on their public website.Safer Internet Day 2012 , we’re happy to announce that this collaboration is expanding. Telefono Azzuro will share its Search Appliance with all of the members of Missing Children Europe (MCE), the federation of national NGOs responsible for the European 116.000 phone hotline , who will use Google's search technology on their public websites. Eventually, the Search Appliance will also be linked to MCE’s interconnected European database of missing children (currently under construction), enabling each member NGO to better organise its own case files and conduct secure searches on its internal network. Digital literacy education / workshops Italy : we’re running online safety workshops with Telefono Azzurro / Sicuri in Rete and with the Italian Postal and Communications Police (at more than 100 schools); and we’re distributing online safety information to parents together with the Italian Association of Paediatricians .Portugal : we’re launching the Google Family Safety Center at an event chaired by the President of National Commission for Support for Children.Russia : We’re partnering with Net Literacy to engage over 200 Russian journalism students in digital literacy campaigning in schools and communitiesEvents UK : we’re hosting online safety events with CEOP , the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, and Raceonline ; we’re also participating in workshops organised by the UK Safer Internet Centre .Russia : we’re working with the Russia Safe Internet Centre and Russian Association of Electronic Communications to run a series of international expert panels at the Safer Internet Forum.Germany : Wieland Holfelder, Google Engineering Director, is keynoting a session on the platform for safe internet use at the Safer Internet Event in Germany, organized by Bitkom and the Ministry of Consumer Protection (BMELV ).Research Technology France : we’re supporting the work of e-Enfance.org on a new Google Chrome browser extension called NetEcoute , which will make it easy for youngsters to start an online discussion with a helpline counselor.Posted by Laura Bononcini, Senior Policy Analyst, Google
Hey, I work for a Belgian NGO that tries to inspire children, young people and youth work to make the most of the chances offered by digital media and the internet, called Jeugdwerknet. Do you have any media litteracy initiatives in Belgium?
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