About SiFKal - Objectives

Using Internet in a safer way does neither depend exclusively on the implementation of technical controls in the client or server services neither on restrictive norms in relation to contents. Safer use of the Internet means, specifically, an Internet that offers its users (who may include parents, teachers, adolescents, local authorities and librarians) a potentially powerful tool to know better our world and to live better in it.

However, to achieve this, we have to build up a social and educational understanding of the Internet, establishing a culture that protects individual rights while providing freedom of intercommunication. While we have established procedures for managing knowledge in print, the speed and openness of the new media present new challenges.

The central objective of the S.I.F.K.aL. project is to elaborate and disseminate information and recommendations about the educational and socially relevant possibilities of the Internet in multilingual and in different formats. The project will focus on actual contributions, initiatives, and on examples of best practice using the Internet as a media for knowing and living.