Children's House in Cyberspace was initiated by Childwatch International
Research Network, based on the need to establish an electronic meeting place
on Internet for individuals and organizations engaged in children's issues.
A shared Internet site could offer a range of easily accessible on-line
services. Through the world wide web, reliable information on ongoing activities
within research, programming activities, international events, electronic
conferences and interactive databases could be provided. The Children's
House project is an instrument for dialogue, discussion and dissemination
of knowledge on the situation of children.
Children's House is an "easy-to find" site with information on
children's issues for researchers, journalists, planners, NGO's, and others.
In a rapidly growing Cyberspace, we want to avoid that children's issues
become invisible or difficult to find.
The Internet project launched does not compete with already existing home
pages. On the contrary, one of its functions is to facilitate the access
to usefulweb sites, in order to provide information to all those involved
or interested in the well being of children.
In addition to being a common entrance to serious activities and databases
on child related issues, a coordinating Internet activity represents a common
meeting ground. With the possibilities of interactivity that the Internet
offers today -- and all the new opportunities that will no doubt be offered
tomorrow -- this meeting place will function as a forum for debate, communication,
overviews and news sharing that can benefit our common efforts to promote
children's issues.
Childwatch invited several important organizations and institutions involved
with children's issues to cooperate on the Children's House project, believing
that the only way to make such a project successful, is to develop, monitor
and promote our professional field together.Today, these organizations and
institutions form the task force for the project; The House Committee of
Children's House.
How can you use Children's House?
As Information Resource
Children's House will provide you with a wide variety of child related information,
and links to all the important Internet resources relating to children's
issues. Searching for information through Children's House will help you
avoid less serious web sites, and warn you about "teasers".
For announcing child related events
Children's House can provide you with up-dated information on international
events of professional interest. At the
Conference Floor you
can find searchable information about child related conferences, seminars
and workshops world wide. You can also easily announce your own child related
event interactively, at no cost.
As an interactive meeting place
What makes Children's House more than an ordinary web site for gathering
information, is the focus on interactivity. In a simple and user friendly
way, Children's House help you to get familiar with the interactive opportunites
of the Internet.
By opening a workshop on a child related topic, you can quite easily use
Children's House as a true virtual meeting ground.The workshop may be open
for participation from any other user, or you may invite a group of professionals
you know to join a restricted group regulated by a password defined by you.
Creating a workshop is easily done by filling in a simple form. When the
workshop is accepted by the House Committee, you will receive an e-mail
with detailed instructions on how you can moderate the workshop from your
own computer. Being a workshop moderator is not very tecnically demanding,
and can be easily done by most users.
The House Committee:
International Save the Children Alliance
Chair of the House Committee; Sven Winberg
Family Life Development Centre, Cornell University
Co-Chair of the House Committee; Tom Hanna
Childwatch International
NetMaster and Research Floor Moderator;Anne Kielland,
Rädda Barnen
NGO Floor Moderator; Per-Erik Åström
The Consultative Group for Early Childhood Care and Development
Early Childhood Floor Moderator; Ellen Ilfeld,
Child Rights Information Network, CRIN
Child Rights Floor Moderator; Becky Purbrick,
The Australian Institute of Family Studies
Information Floor Moderator, Deborah Whithear,
The Norwegian Centre for Child Research
Conference Floor Moderator; Astrid Kilvik,
Children's Rights Centre, University of Ghent
Training Floor Moderator; Frans Spiesschaert,
The World Bank
Promotor; Mary E. Young,
UNESCO
UN - Promotor; John Bennett,
Responsible for Databases; Bernard Combes,
Instituto InterAmericano del Niño
South - Promotor; Julio Rosenblatt,
Centre International de l'Enfance
Responsible for Databases; Daniel Baudin,
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