Safer Internet Day 2024 had a slightly different format in Iceland this year: due to huge earthquakes and volcanic eruptions that affected the country's organisation and administration, the time to plan Safer Internet Day was short. Despite the circumstances, the Iceland Safer Internet Centre organised a successful conference on children's online well-being, framed also within Iceland’s Media Literacy Week.
Following administrative changes at the start of the year, Netvís – Netöryggismiðstöð Íslands, a department under the Icelandic Media Commission, is now the Iceland Safer Internet Centre. It assumed this important responsibility from The Home and School Associations in a mutually agreeable arrangement.
The conference was opened by a welcome speech from the Minister of Education and Children's Affairs, followed by presentations from various experts on safer internet topics who took the stage to share their knowledge. The conference ended with a panel discussion of young people, during which they shared their experiences and opinions. The conference was free of charge and open to everyone.
For this year's Media Literacy Week, the Media Commission and Children's Mental Health Centre introduced new screen time standards for children and young people. This year's topics were:
- More sex education: less porn.
- Internet traffic school: teaching materials about media literacy and data privacy.
- Belonging online: queer youth in a digital world.
- Will the future be the past we don't want? issues of disabled youth and disabled people of foreign origin online.
- Online friendships of adolescents in socially vulnerable situations.
- Using technology to learn: a video game that adapts to children's learning abilities.
- Law enforcement in video games.
Find out more about Safer Internet Day in Iceland or learn more about the work of the Icelandic Safer Internet Centre.
Safer Internet Day 2024 had a slightly different format in Iceland this year: due to huge earthquakes and volcanic eruptions that affected the country's organisation and administration, the time to plan Safer Internet Day was short. Despite the circumstances, the Iceland Safer Internet Centre organised a successful conference on children's online well-being, framed also within Iceland’s Media Literacy Week.
Following administrative changes at the start of the year, Netvís – Netöryggismiðstöð Íslands, a department under the Icelandic Media Commission, is now the Iceland Safer Internet Centre. It assumed this important responsibility from The Home and School Associations in a mutually agreeable arrangement.
The conference was opened by a welcome speech from the Minister of Education and Children's Affairs, followed by presentations from various experts on safer internet topics who took the stage to share their knowledge. The conference ended with a panel discussion of young people, during which they shared their experiences and opinions. The conference was free of charge and open to everyone.
For this year's Media Literacy Week, the Media Commission and Children's Mental Health Centre introduced new screen time standards for children and young people. This year's topics were:
- More sex education: less porn.
- Internet traffic school: teaching materials about media literacy and data privacy.
- Belonging online: queer youth in a digital world.
- Will the future be the past we don't want? issues of disabled youth and disabled people of foreign origin online.
- Online friendships of adolescents in socially vulnerable situations.
- Using technology to learn: a video game that adapts to children's learning abilities.
- Law enforcement in video games.
Find out more about Safer Internet Day in Iceland or learn more about the work of the Icelandic Safer Internet Centre.
- well-being Safer Internet Day (SID) Safer Internet Centre (SIC) media literacy
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