Since the bullying of children was
something very evident lately, It
is absolutely necessary for all agents in society to acquire an awareness of cyberbulling as a treatment emergency in order to protect our children and
their well being (articles 5, 8, 13, 19,
29 and concordant of the Convention of the Rights of the Child adopted by the
UN General Assembly, including 2010 UN Protocol, and a lot of other
international, national and regional legislation). It includes all sorts of
technology tools they use. Of course they need to be in contact, use and
develop the ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) but, as tools they have
in their hands, these can have different uses. It is absolutely necessary for them,
the children, to learn how to use them
and the consequences and responsibilities if they use them in the wrong way.
The laws, in different areas, are
starting to regulate the consequences explicitly, but as the laws
regarding children anticipated as fas back as two decades ago, kids today have a lot higher
level of awareness and autonomy than years before, and each lustrum it
increases more quickly. This is one of the reasons that laws are progressively
recognizing and attributing more responsibilities (including the penal ones) to
children. This is the main reason why they have to receive this information
(right and duty) and have a determinate number of classes (like they receive in
other disciplines) about the use and responsibility of the ICT.
Of course schools can teach about
it, but the main responsibility is in the hands of the families, of the
parents. Laws consider the use of personal devices from the age of 14, and they are
quite explicit about the liabilities for kids from 14 years old and their parents. So the decision of the
momentum to have a personal device, which device, where devices
are and how they use them , requires dialogue, pacts and rules inside the family
nucleus.
As for family, schools and enterprises we
have to work together in the same vein.
