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Safer Internet Day Activities in Brazil   

 
    The actions of prevention and education are complementary to actions carried out to fight against cybercrimes. The Brazilian Safer Internet Day commission work in different areas to promote quality and safety tips that can be adopted for all to profit the good resources available in cyberspace. To increase a safer Internet we must strengthen our efforts to educate and prevent cybercrimes below just fight against then. The Internet isn't dangerous itself and we have to promote the opportunities and its potential for all ages, specially for children.
 
The Brazilian Safer Internet Day commission are working to encourage a national debate to highlight the public dimension of cyberspace and the ethical commitment that this dimension implies that for all this space are related, considering the challenge of misinterpreting the notion that the Internet is a lawless area where we can do anything with certainty of impunity. When we talk about prevention and a safer use we want to talk about Cyber-Citizenship, about ethics in this wonderful and planetary new public space that is the Cyberspace, trying to always to respect the culture diversity that Internet can enrich.

To achieve these objectives the Brazilian Safer Internet Day commission are working with Safer Internet Day to engage different organizations in Brazil and promote public policies and national programs to promote a Safer Internet. 

Brazilian Safer Internet Day commission is composed by:
SaferNet Brasil
    SaferNet Brasil is a NGO founded to protect children online and promote the Human Rights on the Internet. Since 2006 SaferNet runs the Brazillian National Reporting Center of Cybercrimes against Human Rights. We are a civil society body that helds formal cooperation agreements with the main public and private institutions in Brazil, such as the Brazilian Federal Attorney General, Federal Police, Special Secretariat for Human Rights at the Office of the President of the Republic, Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br), Google, MySpace, the Federal Senate Special Comission for Investigation of Child Sexual Abuse and the NGO Childhood Brazil.
Since 2005 we designed and implemented nationwide social projects aiming at building an Internet safer for children and young people in Brazil, and promote the safe use of ICT and create the necessary conditions to ensure the effective protection of Human Rights on the Internet in Brazil, as well as contribute with a culture of accountability and allow children, youngsters and adults to build healthy and safe social networks through the appropriate use of technology.
Over the last 3 years, SaferNet attended the United Nations worldwide event concerning the Internet Governance process, and organized two main workshops to discuss the strategies to prevent and fight child sexual abuse on developing countries.     In the e-safety awareness program works in diferent levels: the First nationwide research regarding child safety online and parents concerns about it, e-Safety workshops with childrens, teens and educators at main public and private schools, SaferTips Booklets and games.
www.safernet.org.br

Brazilian Internet Steering Committee - CGI. Br
    The model of Internet Governance in Brazil is a pioneering experience regarding the effective participation of the society in the decisions that involve implementation, administration and use of the network. Based on multilateral, transparent and democratic principles, the coordination and integration of the activities of Internet services in the country are made by means of the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee - CGI.br, a multistakeholder organization composed by members of the government, the enterprise sector, the third sector and the academic community. Created by the Interministerial Ordinance Nº 147, of May 31st 1995 and altered by the Presidential Decree Nº 4,829, of September 3rd 2003, the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee is responsible for promoting the technical quality, innovation and the dissemination of the offered services, including e-safety awareness. Since July of 2004, the representatives of the civil society are chosen democratically to participate directly in the deliberations and to debate priorities for Internet, among with the government.
www.cgi.br

Federal Public Attorney Office - MPF - SP
The Cybercrime Unit at Federal Public Attorney Office in Sao Paulo is engaged to promote also a safer  Internet in Brazil since 2003, fighting against cybercrimes and also organizing educational workshops for parents, teachers and students.  The group also works in partnership with Brazilian Internet Steering Committee CGI.br, the Legislature, the Federal Police, SaferNet Brasil, NGOs and the private sector with the objective of strengthening the domestic legal, technological and operational infrastructure to fight against cybercrimes.
Some results of these partnerships include: The publication of the "Cybercrime:
A practical guide to research" (2005), fully developed by the Unit, distributed nationally for judges and other law enforcers, with the support given by the Steering Committee of Internet in Brazil;
Technical support for the Federal Senate Special Commission for Investigation of Child Sexual Abuse (2008);
A memorandum of understanding with the Brazilian Safernet hotline, through which the unit receives reports of potentially illegal content, assessed by the hotline for investigation (2006);
Cooperation with leading Brazilian Internet service providers, who agreed to cooperate and assist federal prosecutors in collecting evidence necessary to identify Brazilian users who use the Internet with the intent to commit crimes (2005);
A cooperation agreement with Google Brazil with specific obligations relating to the social networking service popular in the country, Orkut, run by the company. Google agreed to develop mechanisms for filtering data to prevent pornographic images and to facilitate evidence gathering under judicial order in suspected crimes against children and adolescents and racism.