Children’s Rights on the Internet - Safe and Protected

The implementation of the CRISP project (Children’s Rights on the Internet – Safe and Protected) was initiated in October 2007, by the Metamorphosis Foundation and the First Children’s Embassy in the World – Megjashi in Skopje, financially supported by EIDHR and Metamorphosis.

The project aims at protecting children’s rights on the internet and providing a safe and secure access to the internet, protection of their privacy and consequently the privacy and security of their families. The project’s goals would be achieved by conducting measures for raising the awareness among the children, parents, teachers and the public in general about the presence of this problem, and by offering concrete methods i.e. tools for tackling this problem through trainings and presentations, as well as by creating resources with useful information and guidance for safe internet conduct.

The project encompasses several phases:

• 1st phase: Creating resources (ICT guide, flyers, Children’s Bill of Rights on the Internet and a web site) in local languages (Macedonian and Albanian) as well as forming a network of NGOs working on children’s rights protection.
• 2nd phase: Training and familiarizing the members of the NGO-network with this particular issue (children’s rights on the internet) and qualification for educating children, parents and teachers in the primary and secondary schools throughout Macedonia.
• 3rd phase: Members of the NGO-network conducting education through specially designed and organized presentations in the elementary and secondary schools throughout Macedonia, as well as distribution of the materials during the presentations.