Anne Collier, What sort of people work on the'advisory council', does this include children?
Asked by udders on Nov 19 2007 8:12:06 AM and supported by 27 members
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That's a fair question. It really depends on the organization. I happen to know those two, as I suspect you know. Their advisory boards are made up mostly of people in the children's online-safety advocacy field. Many of them have been in the nonprofit, or as you say in the UK, the charitable sector for a long time. Many in the online-safety field to date have legal training. I don't. I'm a journalist by training, which is pretty unusual (I'd like to see more psychologists and experts in at-risk teen behavior in the field). Most of us are parents, so we see our subject from both 30,000 feet and close up. The two organizations you mentioned do not have children on their advisory boards. One I'm closely associated with in the UK, Childnet International, does have a youth advisory board it consults frequently, which I think is fantastic - something we should be doing more of in the US.