Guest contribution by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
Happy Onlife is an edutainment (education+entertainment) toolkit
conceived by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission
promoting a safe and responsible use of internet among children and adults. It
is also used to raise awareness on online safety risks for privacy, cyber
security and cyberbullying. It is available as paper version (EN, IT) and
digital application for mobile and web platforms (EN, FR, IT, NL, ES). Happy
Onlife is also mobile and is available for iOS, Android and Windows Smartphones https://web.jrc.ec.europa.eu/happyonlife/index.html. JRC is now inviting parents’ associations to try the
toolkit, to promote it and contribute to its further development. The contents
of the toolkit are very much in line with EPA’s point of view on internet use,
to raise awareness rather than restrict and create anxiety.
This year to celebrate
Safer Internet Day 2017, Happy Onlife resources were released under open
source license (EUPL). The release of the
source code is an opportunity to share best practices and promote novel
teaching methods on data protection and cybersecurity.
The aim is to open this research and its resources to
citizens: parents, teachers, students, children … All published and released
Happy Onlife material can be freely used and reused.
Test and play the Happy Onlife game and tools. Join
the Happy Onlife community!
You can remix, tweak, and build upon Happy Onlife
work, as long as you credit the European Commission as author. You can also
contribute by
- translating the game content in new languages on GitHub
- creating new questions, topics, updates on popular media tools into the game content on GitHub
- building new awareness raising activities and/or projects inspired by Happy Onlife booklet
- proposing new features to the digital game released in GitHub under open-source EUPL licence
- getting involved in the Happy Onlife JRC pilot with Italian, Belgian, Portuguese and Romanian partners
Have a look at examples of Happy Onlife reuse by
Schools, Coderdojo or Minecraft experts from the JRC report.
You can be inspired by other projects and realise your own one!
Let us know what you are up to by sending an e-mail to
jrc-happyonlife [at] ec.europa.eu.
Background
The digital life of citizens and young citizens is at
the focus of the European Commission attention and action seeking the most
appropriate and innovative schemes not only to protect against threats and risk
of the web, but also to make the most vulnerable more informed, skilled and
capable of coping with cultural and technical changes. Happy Onlife approach is
participatory and playful sharing of digital life experiences to open up
intergenerational dialogue with active mediation among actors through
edutainment tools. Active appropriation, community engagement, mediation to
children and reverse mediation of children to adults enhance digital skills and
empower children and adults for a safe and responsible use of ICT.
The European Commission also promotes safer internet
through the Better Internet for Kids Strategy and financial support to Safer Internet Centres in 27 Member States as well as Iceland and Norway, coordinated
by the joint INSAFE/INHOPE network, with the financial support of the European
Commission under Connecting Europe Facility. Among other initiatives, the INSAFE/INHOPE network
organizes the Safer Internet Day that gives an opportunity for children, young
students, teachers, parents, industry, policy makers and other stakeholders to
collaborate and reflect on emerging risks the youngest users.
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