ACOPEA Workshop Tuesday 23rd October 2012, London UK. Agenda ACOPEA Summit 2013
We are delighted to announce stakeholders meeting in London.The African Child Online Protection Education & Awareness (ACOPEA) workshop hosted by Facebook.
Date -Tuesday 23rd October 2012
Time-1300 – 1700 at Facebook offices, 42 Earlham Street, London, WC2H 9LA
As Internet connectivity continues to grow in Africa, like in other parts of the world, children are amongst the earliest users, adopters and creators of online content. For these children to be able to continue to enjoy and fulfil their potential online, a multistakeholder collaboration is needed to educate children around how to keep safe online and to protect them from potential harm. ACOPEA's mission is to make that a reality, working with partners across the continent.
We recognize that this is an enormous task and therefore we want to learn from experts and experience elsewhere. To this end, Facebook have offered to host a workshop for ACOPEA to discuss how best to approach this vital issue. Participants will include key individuals from major industry players in the African region and international NGOs.
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The workshop will be an opportunity to share and explore existing resources and practices on child online safety in Africa, and to discuss what else can be done. We envisage this will be a key staging post towards the ACOPEA summit in 2013. This is a limited invitation workshop.
Date -Tuesday 23rd October 2012
Time-1300 – 1700 at Facebook offices, 42 Earlham Street, London, WC2H 9LA
About the organizers of the ACOPEA Summit 2013 an annual event to address COP issues in Africa.
ANPPCAN is a pan-African
network that deals with child abuse and neglect in general and in
particular, the prevention and protection nature of abuse. It was
founded in 1986 in Enugu,Nigeria and has its headquarters in Nairobi,
Kenya. Membership to ANPPCAN is country specific and currently it has
chapters in 26 countries in Africa. It has observer status with the
African Union and similar status with the African Commission on Human
and Peoples Rights.
The End Child Prostitution in Kenya (ECPIK) is a coalition of 19 civil society organizations working together to stop child prostitution, sexual exploitation, child pornography and trafficking of children for sexual purposes in Kenya. It is the Kenyan affiliate of the End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Child Trafficking for sexual purposes (ECPAT) The organization works in partnership with others to protect children from commercial sexual exploitation in particular sexual abuse, prostitution, pornography and trafficking for sexual purposes. ECPIK’s activities border on research, media campaigns, collaboration and networking, training, capacity building and advocacy. The network’s activities are conducted from ANPPCAN Regional Office.
The African Child Online Protection, Education and Awareness Centre (ACOPEA) works to promote the welfare and safety of children in the online environment through education, awareness and the provision of mechanisms to report abuse and protect the rights of citizens in cyberspace. ACOPEA brings together professionals from all over the continent who work with children in different capacities including child welfare, child protection agencies and organizations, teachers, social workers, police and other key stakeholders in strategic regional forums such as conferences to deliberate on COP and its agendas, create awareness, share knowledge and experience in child online protection.
The End Child Prostitution in Kenya (ECPIK) is a coalition of 19 civil society organizations working together to stop child prostitution, sexual exploitation, child pornography and trafficking of children for sexual purposes in Kenya. It is the Kenyan affiliate of the End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Child Trafficking for sexual purposes (ECPAT) The organization works in partnership with others to protect children from commercial sexual exploitation in particular sexual abuse, prostitution, pornography and trafficking for sexual purposes. ECPIK’s activities border on research, media campaigns, collaboration and networking, training, capacity building and advocacy. The network’s activities are conducted from ANPPCAN Regional Office.
The African Child Online Protection, Education and Awareness Centre (ACOPEA) works to promote the welfare and safety of children in the online environment through education, awareness and the provision of mechanisms to report abuse and protect the rights of citizens in cyberspace. ACOPEA brings together professionals from all over the continent who work with children in different capacities including child welfare, child protection agencies and organizations, teachers, social workers, police and other key stakeholders in strategic regional forums such as conferences to deliberate on COP and its agendas, create awareness, share knowledge and experience in child online protection.
