2. Operation Uncool: Online Youth Consultation on Cyberbullying
Council Working Group on Child Online Protection
10 October 2016

3. https://rerights.org/operation-uncool
Background
As per Resolution 179, the Group recommended to conduct one-day online consultations for youth, prior to its meetings. This will allow the Group to be more inclusive and ever-more agile in responding to current and emerging technical and policy needs.
We partnered with Rerights.org, a youth-centered engagement platform; we now have our consultation live

4. What is RErights?
Young people aged submit content (e.g. surveys, text, photos, videos, artwork) to complete activities – “Missions” and “Operations” – exploring important themes and issues
An online community, available in multiple languages, where young people around the world share their ideas and opinions about digital technology and their rights in the digital age

5. How RErights works

6. Operations & Missions

7. Operation Uncool
Operation Uncool contains Missions about four important themes – definition, resolution, response, support…
“Unkind”
How can we resolve it?
“Mean-ing”
What is cyberbullying?
“Response”
Who should help?
“Support”
What support is there?
Rerights reaches out to individual young people and invites
educators to run workshops for organised groups. Data is presented online as infographics, blogs, updates and social media

8. Outreach (what we did) ITU Social media ITU Blog and Newsletter
COP partners
Personal network
RErights
Social media, blogs, infographics
Newsletters to RErights agents
Consulted with international experts on how to talk to young people about cyberbullying
Mobilised the project’s Critical Friends and Project Advisory Board
Existing networks

9. Outcomes
Operation Uncool invites young people to tell us what they think about cyberbullying – we want to find out what young people have to say in their own words…

10. Responses For young people, cyberbullying is:
…when people use the networks of the Internet to commit injuries repeatedly
…spreading negative rumours about someone online
…when people say or do hurtful things online
…threats and intimidation
Not everything is bullying:
Cyberbullying is not when a person thinks or has a different opinion of you, because the Internet is an open network, but we must always behave with respect for others.
Cyberbullying is unlike constructive criticism or giv[ing] opinions on a person.

11. Responses
Young people discuss the complexities of uncool behaviour and the effects
In friendly joke enjoy all, also the friendly joke is mutual. Bullying is one-sided and who suffers is not having fun at all
Cyberbullying is when a web surfer denigrates the image of a person, humiliates and hurts your identity publicly. Play is when healthily Internet users make a joke without affecting the morale of the others
Cyberbullying is more serious teasing or jokes
The difference is pretty significant because cyber bullying create more havoc than the joking or teasing
Cyberbullying is something much more dangerous than a joke

12. Lessons Learned
Network: Engage a wider network of partners to implement and run the consultation. We encourage Member States to allocate more resources or provide greater access to relevant local networks/entities.
Workshop: Engage different platforms and partners could help to run consultations in groups and not only at the individual level.
Topic: Consider different approaches to choosing the topics for consultation to be sure that young people are interested in and comfortable about contributing.
Language: Include other major languages to raise response rates and geographical reach.
Video content: Co-develop video content with young people to embed their voices into the ITU’s deliberations in an engaging and insightful way.
Timing: Delivering consultation during the school year may help raise response rate
Youth consultation: Recruit ITU Youth Panel from Member States

13. Components for success
Long-term engagement strategy
Participatory design
Resources
Connections
Driven from ground up
Resources
Financial or in-kind support
Incentives
Infrastructure
Connections
Bottom-up approach
Local/personal networks
Participatory design
Intergenerationally defined
Stakeholder involvement
Long-term Engagement
Systematic
Rollout planning