In conversation with Elizabeth Milovidov

In this week’s conversation I’m chatting with Elizabeth Milovidov, a member of the Working Group of experts on Digital Citizenship Education and an independent expert on Digital Parenting and Children and Internet for the Children’s Rights Division of Council of Europe.  She is also the author of many books and workbooks for parents, children and families, all are designed to be tools that allow parents to start the conversation with their children. It became clear very early on that Elizabeth is also a passionate advocate of children’s rights online and I had to admit that although I’ve been working in the digital world since the early 90’s and it had never occurred to me be concerned about what happens in the digital world with children beyond the media news stories I have heard about grooming. What became fascinating was the juxtaposition between the many different perspectives that guide what we, as individuals, use the Internet for. We talked about her life in law and interest in children’s rights morphed into her website and books about digital parenting. Elizabeth explained that she brought up ‘digital’ into everything she thought about and taught, for example in contract law what does the Facebook use contract say about who owns the photographs posted on their site. We laughed over her original name for the site which was crossing guard consultant, when one of those amazing serendipitous coincidences happened...
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