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November 13: Unconference! Kids Online: Balancing Safety and Fun in Mountain View, CA

About Kids Online
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.

Objective and Process
This is a day to dive in and work collaboratively on these kinds issues around kids 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?
* Any other ideas, issues, concepts that you think are important in this area.

We will take notes throughout the day from all sessions. This book of proceedings will be with all attendees talking about what we learned, synthesizing and next actions.

About the Unconference Format

The format we use means the agenda is created the day it happens. It is about getting things done and figuring out the tough problems. There is no committee deciding who does or does not get to 'present'. Instead, Open Space is about breaking up into groups, working through issues, figuring out best practices and building consensus.

Attendees

* The community we hope to gather includes:
* 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
* Bloggers

Speaking Opportunities

Anyone is welcome to create a session on a topic they find relevant to data sharing. The agenda for these sessions will be created on the first day of each event.

When

Thursday, November 13, 2008 at 08:30 AM - 5 PM (PST)
(Hopefully have some dinner groups afterwards to continue the conversations, as well.)

Where

Computer History Museum
1401 N Shoreline Blvd.
Mountain View, CA 94043

Registration

Available at http://kidsonline.eventbrite.com/
Early Bird - by Sep 30, 2008 - $95.00
Regular - by Oct 31, 2008 - $125.00
Kids (10-25) - by Nov 12, 2008 - $50.00

Sponsorships are available. Please contact any of the event coordinators if you are interested.

Starts11/13/2008
Ends02/13/2009
IssuesMedia, Youth
Homepagekidsonline.eventbrite.com
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Posted on October 6, 2008 in Event / Call to action by austra