About the You decide campaign

"You decide" is a cooperation between the Norwegian Board of Technology, the Norwegian Data Inspectorate and the Centre for ICT in education. The aim of the project is to increase young people's knowledge of privacy and to raise their consciousness about the choices they make when they use digital media such as the Internet and mobile phones.

The project has developed two packages with teaching material: One aimed at secondary schools and one at the oldest children in primary school (ages 9-13). Each package consists of a brochure with facts, real life examples and topics for discussions/tasks. Throughout the project a number of films that highlight the subject have been developed. These films are meant to stimulate the debate in the classroom.

Emphasis has been put on creating reflection and discussion, and not on rules. We ask open questions, so that each individual can reflect on his or her own boundaries. If you have knowledge about the consequences of the different choices you make, you can also take responsibility for your actions.

You Decide spreads

The Norwegian You Decide project has been adopted in about 16 countries.

These are examples of implementation in different countries:

  • Faroe Islands: the Date Protection Agendcy has translated both brochures and made own films
  • Finland: the Educational board has translated You Decide to Finish and Swedish 
  • Denmark: the Danish Board of Technology has translated the youth brochure and made an interactive version
  • Slovenia: the Information Commissioner links to the films
  • Austria: the Austrian Data Protection Commission has translated the brochure and dubbed the films
  • Germany: the Media Authority of Rhineland-Palatinate (LMK) has texted the films
  • Canada: has created a film competion inspired by the You Decide campaign
  • Andorra: Agència Andorrana de Protecció de Dades has translated the youth brochure and dubbed og texted the films into
  • Belgium: the Commission for the protection of privacy has made a campaign (and links to the films) inspired by the You Decide campaign, and an educational publishing company wants to use the film Marius
  • Spain: the Spanish Data Protection Agency has translated the youth brochure and dubbed the films into Spanish and Basque
  • Macedonia: has translated the youth brochure
  • Switzerland: the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner of Switzerland wants to use the brochure and the website
  • Greece: Hellenic Data Protection Authority used parts of the You Decide campaign at the Data Protection Day 2010
  • Estonia: the Consumer Protection Board of has translated the material
  • USA/Canada: You Decide inspired a Canadian and American privacy initiative in 2009 that also links to the films on their homepage

You decide in your country?

The organisations behind the campaign invite any country or region that wants to use or adapt the material to do so.

All content, including text, pictures, design and films can be re-used free of charge. If you would like to make use of all or some parts of our campaign, we would appreciate if you include a disclaimer, which credits You decide or the three originators responsible for the campaign. If you use the material in your country it is important that you let us know for copyright purposes.

If you are interested in re-using the material, we can send you the documents in Adobe InDesign including all text and all photos and illustrations in high resolution. This can be transferred through a digital courier via the Internet. The photographer, illustrator and designer must be credited as in the original document.

 

For more information, please contact karoline.tomte@iktsenteret.no

 

 

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