Social Awareness

	5 groups of kids, their parents and teachers will visit the conference for a special awareness training, provided by www.dekinderconsument.nl and www.livewwwires.com. Awareness is adopted by the conference organisation.
	Livewires is sponsored by New Horizons.

Internet Safety Games: Making Wise Choices On-line
5 groups of children and their parents and teachers will visit the conference. The Canadian organization www.livewwwires.com will let them play one of their specialized awareness-games. While the kids are working on the game their parents will get special briefings on the good and the bad things of the internet. Awareness has been adopted by the conference-organization as an important item for this conference. Thanks to Dutch politics and public organizations this topic will be an important additional piece of the conference.

Drew Ann Wake began her career as a film maker working with schools in the Canadian Arctic. In 1996, she and Colin Savage founded LiveWires Design, with the goal of creating educational computer games. To date, they have produced 24 games about science and technology, including an award-winning series for NeMo in Amsterdam.  In recent years, LiveWires has built three games about Internet safety: Missing, Mirror Image and AirDogs. They are currently developing new games on cell phone safety.