Kids Online

Kids Online: Balancing Safety and Fun: An (un)conference about the issues and best practices.

November 13, 2008, 8AM - 5:30 + dinner following

Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA

Note: This event is immediately following the Internet Identity Workshop

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.

All of the attendees will make up the agenda together at the event itself. We do welcome ideas and suggestions for topics you hope get discussed the day of the event.

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?

Who this (un) conference is for:

* 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 * Blogger

''Adult attendees of the conference are welcome to bring their children ages 10-25 to participate in the conversations. There will not be child care, this is about talking about the issues with the constituents we are talking about present.''

We are bringing together a range of practitioners and experts to work collaboratively for a day together. 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.

Schedule:
 * 8:00: Breakfast and Registration beginning at
 * 8:30: (un)Panel about critical issues arising around kids online.
 * 9:45: Agenda Creation - all attendees will get to put forward topics for discussion or presentation. You can propose topics on this page [Kids Online Proposed Topics].
 * 10:00-4:30 Concurrent sessions
 * 4:15-5:30 End of day summary - reviewing topics covered and next actions.
 * 6:00 Dinner somewhere near by (might be hosted if we get enough sponsorship)

More about the Format

This conference uses open space to support the agenda creation it is unconventional and it has also had incredible results. The user-centric identity community - the folks who are gathering for the 7th Internet Identity Workshop just before this day have been using it for years with great results. Kaliya Hamlin has also been the facilitator at Forum One's Online Community Unconference