SRSG Santos Pais participates in First Regional Summit on Digital Literacy and Citizenship "Technology for a Better World" - Buenos Aires 5-6 November 2015

Monday, 11 May 2015 - 8:00am to Thursday, 11 June 2015 - 8:00pm

SRSG Santos Pais participates as keynote speaker at the First Regional Summit on Digital Literacy and Citizenship "Technology for a Better World" which takes place on November 5th and 6th in Tecnopolis, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The promotion of a safe, inclusive and empowering digital agenda for children is a key priority for the mandate and indispensable strategy to protect children from violence.

With the challenge of ensuring that children and teenagers can interact with ICT (Information and Communications Technology) without violence, and to promote the exercise of their rights to a safe, responsible and meaningful use of them, we intend to organize this unique event for the call and the integration of different social actors.

The Regional meeting will have four workspaces: the Latin American Teenagers Forum, the Symposium on Law and Public Policy, an Educational Community Working Day and a Meeting of the Red Natic members (Latin American network of organizations for the rights of children and adolescents to a safe and responsible use of ICT).

The meeting is organized by Chicos.net Association alongside with RedNatic (Latin American network of organizations for the rights of children and adolescents to a safe and responsible use of ICT) and Save the Children.