Kids Online: Balancing Safety and Fun. An (un)conference about the issues and best practices.

Thursday, November 13, 2008 from 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM (PT)

Mountain View, CA

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Kids (10-25)	Ended	$50.00	$1.25	N/A

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Event Details

This day is being co-organized by Kaliya Hamlin, Joi Podgorny and Denise Tayloe.

We are bringing together a range of practitioners and experts to work collaboratively for a day together.

Our goal is to leave the day with greater clarity around some core best practices and have next steps as an industry to help kids being safer online.

All of the attendees will make up the agenda together at the event itself. We do welcome ideas and suggestions for topics you hope get discussed the day of the event.

This is a day to dive in and work collaboratively on the issues surrounding kids safety online:

Who and what are we trying to protect digital kids from?
Are there standards and norms in practice that we can leverage to formalize best practices for industry?
Kids fake their ages to gain access to online content, do we as an industry care? If so, then?
How do we create best practices that are flexible based on age range, content and willingness for parental involvement by industry or the child?
How can we create cyber spaces that balance interesting and fun with safety?
What is the role of government in either defining or supporting best practices?

Who this (un) conference is for:

Online Community/Virtual World Managers
Policy officers and Security Officers at large companies
Consultants in the kids online space
Identity technologists
State Attorney Generals
Legislative Staffers
Parents and Kids
Academics in the field
Blogger

Adult attendees of the conference are welcome to bring their children ages 10-25 to particiapte in the conversations. There will not be child care, this is about talking about the issues with the constituents we are talking about present.

More about the Format

This conference uses open space to support the agenda creation it is unconventional and it has also had incredible results. The user-centric identity community - the folks who are gathering for the 7th Internet Identity Workshop just before this day have been using it for years with great results. Kaliya Hamlin has also been the facilitator at Forum One's Online Community Unconference