Welcome to ChildWatch.ie and our new look for the new year.
Technology and digital devices, the internet, the ability to research, create content; wow, what a fantastic world it is that our children have been born into!
Within that fantastic world is a need to be careful, be private, and understand and simply mitigate risks that exist in digital space. The currency of that mitigation is a sense of personal responsibility based on reality, and the sincere education of children including teenagers of that reality.
At Child Watch we provide independent child protection research, advocacy, education and consulting services to public and private organisations in Ireland and overseas.
We fight online child abuse and exploitation where ever it is found in computing or on the internet.
We highlight the plight of children who are being abused behind closed doors today and have little or no ability to defend or speak for themselves.
We educate people from teens in second level education standard up to adults about the dangers present on the internet and in the physical world.
We provide consulting to private individuals, public and private organisations and advocates promoting security and privacy for children.
We are making submissions supporting a requirement on ISP's to conduct Mandatory Reporting of internet consumers of Child Abuse Material (CAM) (aka child pornography). It is found that 3 in 10 consumers of CAM are also physically abusing children that they have access to. Thus the internet as a detection and reporting tool to extracate child victims of such abuse cannot be overlooked in any future legislation.
We are also mounting a sustained and targeted campaign among lawmakers in Ireland and Europe to seek to have CAM blocked from reaching peoples homes by established methods used my Internet Service Providers in countries such as the UK and Norway.
We do not advocate blocking for any other forms of material on the internet.
We have neglected some children in digital space, and although some people will take offence to that comment, it is our goal in 2012 to illuminate those threats so that people are better informed to engage in meaningful debate on the issues.
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