1) World Vision Lebanon organized activities for Safer Internet Day 2012 under the patronage of the Higher Council for Childhood to promote safe internet use among children and families. 2) A national workshop was held with 80 participants from government, NGOs, and private sector to map existing interventions and share best practices. 3) A celebration day gathered 550 children and parents from different backgrounds for games and education on internet safety run by local stakeholders.

1. Safer Internet Day 2012
Lebanon’s Committee
Insafe Conference - May 14th, 2012

2. Keeping Children Safe Online project
• World Vision Regional Project (Lebanon,Georgia, OPT, Armenia)
Grassroot Level: Provide children, youth and adults with skills to
better protect themselves and others from online exploitation
when using the internet, mobile phone and other forms of
media technologies (ToTs- Trainings- Awareness Sessions)
National Level:
• Create online complaint mechanism (Himaya–Cyber Crime Unit)
• Set up safety standards for computer education, integration of
online safety sessions in the school curriculum (MoE).
• Organize national workshops, roundtable discussions, to raise
awareness with the general public (MOSA)

3. SID 2012
• Safer Internet Day (SID) is organized by Insafe in February of
each year to promote safer and more responsible use of online
technology and mobile phones, especially amongst children and
young people across the world.
• Safer Internet Day 2012 took place on Tuesday 7 February 2012,
centered on the theme
"Connecting generations and educating each other", where we
encourage users young and old to "discover the digital world
together...safely"!

4. SID 2012
• Under the patronage of the Higher Council for Childhood-
Ministry of Social Affairs, World Vision Lebanon has initiated
and launched the Safer Internet Day 2012 preparation on a
national level.
• World Vision Lebanon took in charge the registration of
Lebanon's committee in the Insafe EU Network and acted as the
focal organization representing the Committee.

5. National Workshop December 2011
• In collaboration with the Ministry of Social Affairs, World Vision
Lebanon organized a National Workshop- December 2011. The
workshop gathered 80 participants from Ministries,
Governmental bodies, INGOs, NGOs, private companies,
schools, ISPs, and individuals and had 3 main objectives:
1) Gather stakeholders and create a national matrix to map the
already existing interventions.
2) Share ideas, tools, challenges, and best practices among the
gathered stakeholders.
3) Launch the preparations for the SID 2012
SID presentation / Group Work - Suggestions for the Safer Internet Day /
Action Plan & Contributions to the Safe Internet Day national
celebration

6. SID 2012- Lebanon’s Committee
• The Lebanese SID 2012 Committee was created under the
umbrella of the Higher Council for Childhood- MOSA and
clusters' members related to the HCC (awareness, technical and
legal clusters).
• Several adherents have joined such as the Ministry of
Education, Telecommunications Regulatory Authorities,
Microsoft Lebanon, Himaya, YMCA, Kidproof M.E, E-Mediat, Al
Mahdi Scouts and Guides, College Notre Dame de Louaize,
Balamand University, Rotary Beirut Cadmous.
• The different members organized their own activities and/or
joined in the Big Celebration Day on February 4th, 2012.

7. Training Media representatives
• A 3 hour awareness session on Internet Safety and SID aimed at
sensitizing the local media point persons to spread an adequate
message during February's SID celebration, while involving
them as key partners in this event. The objectives of the training
were:
• Introduction on SID
• Role of media in SID
• How to conduct a media campaign on child protection issues
• Awareness about different online safety topics

8. SID 2012- Lebanon’ Media Campaign
• The SID 2012 TV spot was adapted to local language (Arabic) by
WVL and disseminated to all partners to be able to use it
through their social media pages.
• Several Stakeholders including WVL participated in several TV
shows and programs to present and describe the SID 2012 on
one hand and to raise awareness about internet safety on the
other hand.
• Aside from the local media coverage, WVL conducted an
internal campaign using Facebook, Twitter, and Yammer as the
main social media channels.

9. SID 2012 Lebanon’s Celebration Day
• On Saturday February 4th, 2012 a Big Event, under the
patronage of the HCC:
- Gathered 550 children with their parents, from different
denominations and backgrounds.
- Offered recreational games, as well as educational corners
animated by local stakeholders working in the field of internet
safety. In parallel to the children’s activities, parents had the
chance to attend awareness sessions, facilitated by
professionals whereby messages and guidelines about online
safety were shared.

10. SID 2012 Lebanon’s Celebration Day
• Participating organizations, relying on their valuable previous
expertise in the topic of online safety, shared with the children
and their parents valuable tips and tools to protect themselves.
• Participants came from all around Lebanon, WVL Area
Development Programmes, Palestinian Refugee Camps as well
as several stakeholders’ beneficiaries.
• This exceptional diversity offered a valuable opportunity for the
participants to gather around the same topic and activities in a
peace building context.
• Around 50 young volunteer coming also from different political
and religious backgrounds provided help and support
throughout the day to join hands, achieve a common goal and
create a safe and protected environment for the children.

11. SID 2012: Lessons Learned
• The pooling of resources of local NGOs, Ministries, Scouts
group, and private companies nurtures the package of
knowledge transmitted to parents and their children. The
exposure to diversified information and tools (i.e. awareness
messages, videos, games, competitions, etc.) increases the
awareness of children.
• The combination of recreational and education activities
enhancedsthe children’s motivation during such events.
• The organization of awareness sessions for parents is one of the
ways to boost parental participation in the event.

12. SID 2012: Lessons Learned
• The partnership with the HCC in particular as well as other
partners at the national level gave more credibility to the work
being conducted which positively affects trust building with
children and their families.
• The unification of efforts at the national level promotes peace
building among partners.
The media strategy should strive to include all partners who
contributed to any issue related to online children safety.

13. Thank you !