A new project, 'Don't loose your bearings!' (Non perdere la bussola), starting from the academic year 2009-2010, was presented on 16 September, in the conference room of the State Police, in Rome. Its primary objective is to teach children to responsibly use the Internet. This new project is the fruit of the collaboration of the Communications Police Service, a well known  videosharing website and the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research.

In this project, the Communications Police Service along with the videosharing website are organising a series of meetings in Italian schools with the aim to teach children how to exploit the communicative potential of online communities without running the risks related to privacy protection, the loading of inappropriate content, copyright infringement and soliciting by dangerous people who lurk under false identification.

'Safety on the Internet' has been an important issue in recent times and this project intends to provide students and teachers of junior and senior high schools with the cognitive tools to ensure safe Internet browsing.  "The State Police - said Maurizio Masciopinto, director of external relations of the State Police - has for years been working to ensure that the risks of the Internet, especially those targeting children, should not become an obstacle to the development of web communication.

All schools interested in hosting an information session should send a request to the following address: polizia.comunicazioni @ interno.it, mentioning in the subject the educational project: "Don't loose your bearings!". The school directors will be contacted by the services of the postal police, which will set up a training meeting.


Further information:

• Official press release of the Italian State Police website (in Italian)