PROJECT PARTNERS
The Finnish Internet Awareness is a joint project of three significant partners Save the Children Finland, Mannerheim League for Child Welfare and the Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority (FICORA). The organizations have the most visible role in Finland in the discussions related to the internet safety, media education and children’s safety related to the digital media.
Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority (FICORA)
FICORA is the national communications regulatory authority of Finland. The core of FICORA's operations lies in information-secure society and interference-free communications networks, effectively functioning communications markets and securing the consumers' position.
Concerning information safety and security, FICORA sees to the functionality of electronic communications networks and information security and reports of eventual information security threats. The key areas of responsibilities include, e.g., CERT-FI activities, steering and monitoring the protection of communications confidentiality, ensuring interference-free and safe telecommunications.
In addition to this, FICORA's objective is to increase the awareness of information safety and security in homes and companies for example by means of arranging the Safer Internet Day annually in large co-operation. FICORA itself does only a little information safety awareness work that is directed to the citizens whereas it is the purpose of the SID project to do awareness work directly to the citizens and especially to the pupils in comprehensive schools.
For more information: http://www.ficora.fi/en/index.html
Contact:
Anna Lauttamus-Kauppila anna.lauttamus-kauppila @ ficora.fi
Director of Communication
Mannerheim League for Child Welfare
The Mannerheim League for Child Welfare is the biggest child welfare organization in Finland. It has 92 000 members and 564 local associations throughout the country. The work of these local associations is supported by the League's 13 district organizations.
The wellbeing of children and of families with children, increases respect for childhood and seeks to make it more visible, and sees that children's views are taken into account in public decision-making.
The Mannerheim League relies on partnerships. It works with numerous organizations, businesses and networks in Finland and abroad. The League's Central Office in Helsinki cooperates closely with ministries, officials and other organizations while the district organizations and local associations operate on the regional level.
Contact:
Juuso Peura juuso.peura @ mll.fi
Youth work manager
Save the Children Finland
Save the Children Finland is a child welfare organization established in 1922. The main activities are focused on professional social work, national and international adoption programmes, offering foster families for children in the most difficult positions, international development programmes for example in Africa, India, Nepal and Russia, and promoting the children’s rights in relation to the digital media. The role of the organization has been crucial and pioneering in many respects in Finland. Save the Children Finland has 170 employees, 8000 individual members, 93 local member associations 5 regional offices and 2 local offices in Finland, a regional office in Kenya and land offices in India and Ethiopia. Save the Children Finland is part of the international Save the Children Alliance consisting of 29 member organizations having activities in more than 110 countries all over the world.
Safer Internet Activities focus on advancing the children’s safety related to the digital media and to prevent and fight the problems. The work is based on children’s rights. Maintaining a Hotline as a member of the INHOPE network for internet users to report about Internet illegal content has been a relevant part of the work since 2002.
Contact:
Mari Laiho mari.laiho @ savethechildren.fi
Safer Internet Manager