Children, Data and Emerging Identities

IdentifEYE Contract Title IdentifEYE Funding Period 01/09/2010 to 30/04/2012 Funding Agency EC Total Cost €333,000.00 Website http://www.cyberethics.info/

The project "Children, Data and Emerging Identities" concerns the development of an augmented reality game in which different sets of data, both active and passive, lead to different outcomes as symbolized by signs. These different signs will be printed by children as an outcome of a stage in the game and will shown to a computer camera. Then, on their computer screen, the augmented reality translation of the signs will be shown. This translation represents the identity that emerges from the data they have entered in the course of the game. By playing the game children will learn that not providing any data or providing only a small amount of data leads to either a complete lack of representation or a distorted representation while providing of too many validated data will lead to a truthful representation. The proposal involves 4 partners from 3 countries (The Netherlands, The U.K. and Cyprus).

Overall Objectives

• Act as Safer Internet Centre in Cyprus
• Where appropriate, cooperate with other actions under the Safer Internet programme
• To engage actors from the government and the civil society, thus contributing towards the eradication of cyber crime through informed actions of European citizens and public institutions that aim to change behaviours, mentality and attitudes, giving special emphasis to rural and less developed areas of the country.

Specific Objectives

• devise inventive, attention-grabbing and informative awareness campaigns using the most

appropriate media, taking into account best practice and experience in other countries, which may involve the participation of children and young people;

• establish and maintain formal or informal partnerships and promote dialogue and exchange of

information with key players (government agencies, press and media groups, ISP associations, user organisations, education stakeholders) and actions in their country on to safer use of the Internet and other online technologies;

• inform the intended target groups about European filtering software and services and in particular

about the study on benchmarking filtering software and services, about hotlines and helplines and selfregulation schemes through using cost-effective means of distribution of information to large numbers of users (multiplier organisations, electronic dissemination channels, mass media, information material distributed to schools and to Internet cafés);

• actively cooperate with other centres in the European network by exchanging information about best

practice, participating in meetings and designing and implementing a European approach;

• hold regional meetings and conferences involving participation from other countries. These events

have to be considered appropriate by the European Commission and by the European network coordinator and the Safer Internet Centre needs to give advance warning of such events. Failure to meet these conditions could mean that the costs of the event are not recognised as eligible costs.

• take an active part in European-level events and in the organisation of regional and local events for

Safer Internet Day;

• where appropriate, support preparations for the Safer Internet Forum by holding national events on

the topics to be discussed there;

• where appropriate, cooperate with other actions under the Safer Internet programme;
• where considered appropriate by the European Commission, cooperate with non-EU countries by

exchanging information about best practice, sharing awareness tools, participating in international meetings, and hosting visits.