For the 4th time already, Warsaw has hosted the “Keeping Children and Young People Safe Online” International Conference.The conference was organised on 28-29 September 2010 at Novotel Airport hotel.

Here you can find the conference leaflet.

The Conference was organized by the Polish (Nobody’s Children Foundation and NASK) and German (klicksafe) Safer Internet Centers, established within the European Commission’s Safer Internet Programme. 

Support for the conference was granted by the Vice President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes.

Here you can watch the Video of the Commissioner's speech.

The conference was held under the honorary patronages of:

- prof. Barbara Kudrycka – Minister of Science and Higher Education,
- Anna Streżyńska - the president of the Office of Electronic Communications,
- Krzysztof Kwiatkowski, Minister of Justice,
- Katarzyna Hall, Minister of National Education
- Jerzy Miller, Minister of the Interior and Administration.

The main partner of the event was Orange Foundation.

The conference was targeted at representatives of the educational sector, NGO’s, justice and law enforcement agencies as well as Internet service and content providers.

The objective was to present the latest achievements in education on safety online and combating illegal web content. Speakers from Poland and abroad presented a number of innovative educational projects that aim at protecting the youngest users in the virtual world. Attendees of this year’s conference took part in specialised sessions led by renowned experts, which focused on topics like online gaming, Internet addiction, the psychological aspects of seduction of children on the web, the legal aspects of the virtual environment, positive online content for children, personal data protection, or mobile telephony.

The event promoted a cascading model of knowledge sharing. Most attendees are involved in projects for online safety in their local communities. They share the knowledge gained at the conference while conducting training courses or classes with children and organising local campaigns. This activity is especially visible during the annual Safer Internet Day.

The conference brought together 360 guests from Poland (approximately 200 representatives of the educational sector, 50 representatives of judicial and law enforcement agencies, 35 representatives of commercial companies, 15 representatives of the government sector, and 45 representatives of NGO’s) as well as 75 attendees from other countries.

The international participants represented the following countries: Albania, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldavia, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, and the USA.

For those who could not take part in the Conference in person, a live streaming feed was offered by NASK at: http://www.saferinternet.pl/articles-2010/streaming_2010.html