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The Kids Internet Summit featured three panels: The Teenangels Panel, the Internet in Education Panel, and the Kids and the Internet Panel. Each was composed of the true experts: children and teens. The children came from Weekly Reader, Cyberangels, the National Urban League, and leading schools around the country.
Leading industry safety experts, child advocates, law-enforcement personnel, and educators were on hand to help during the question and answer sessions. Parry Aftab, Executive Director of Cyberangels.org acted as Moderator for the Summit. Each panel discussion was followed by a Question and Answer period.
After a brief welcome and Introduction by Aftab, the Teenangels Panel took the stage to discuss Internet safety and privacy, and what risks kids and teens take online. The results of the Seventeen Magazine seventeen.com survey of approximately 11,000 teen girls about their Internet usage was discussed, as well.
The Internet in Education Panel spoke on ensuring access to the Internet
as an educational tool. The importance and value of proper use of the
Internet was key to this panel.
The Kids and the Internet Panel focused on what kids like and don't like online, and what they're really doing when they are on the Internet.
Several awards were presented during the Summit: the Teenangels' Safe Internet Awards, the Wired Kids' Web Educational Superstar Awards, the Cyberangels' Kids Best of the Web Awards, and the Wired Kids' Internet Industry Leadership Awards. Representatives of the sites and companies receiving awards - both children and adults - accepted the awards.
Teenangels is a group of teenaged girls who have been trained in online safety and privacy issues. They devote their time to speaking to community and school groups, teaching others how to enjoy the Internet safely. The program is being replicated across the U.S., as well as in Japan, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. For more about Teenangels, click here.
The Seventeen Magazine survey of approximately 11,000 teenage girls was conducted at the magazine's website seventeen.com. It was complied by and is the property of Parry Aftab, Cyberangels, and Professors Ilene and Michael Berson. Some results are featured in The Parent's Guide to Protecting Your Children in Cyberspace (McGraw-Hill, 2000) by Parry Aftab.
