Safer Internet Day aims to raise awareness about online safety and encourages everyone to work “Together For a Better Internet”. In this Podcast we talk to Yasmin London, Executive Director of Australia’s leading cyber safety education organisation, ySafe Social Media & Cyber Safety Experts. Yasmin has spent over 13 years in the NSW Police Force, acting as a specialist youth liaison officer for over 8 years of her service. Yasmin has extensive experience in the legalities, dangers and trends associated with the technology terrain (including topics such as cyber bullying, sexting and online predators), and regularly consults with corporate organisations, government, NGO’s, schools, and youth advocacy agencies across Australia on cyber safety education and management.

We discuss how the responsibility to make the internet a safer place for our children and even ourselves, belongs to everybody and shouldn’t solely fall on one particular person or groups such as schools or the police force. Yasmin discusses how parents have a responsibility to positively role model safe internet use to their children as “you can’t be what you can’t see” and that we should equip ourselves with the skills and knowledge needed to manage what happens in the online environment. 

Here are links to the resources Yasmin references in this podcast:

e-Safety Commissioner - https://www.esafety.gov.au/parents

Kids helpline - https://kidshelpline.com.au/

E headspace - https://headspace.org.au/eheadspace/