VIDEO WEBCAST

STATE-OF-THE-ART INTERNET SAFETY INITIATIVE
FOR NATION'S CHILDREN UNVEILED

Originally broadcast live on
Wednesday, February 21, 2001

Boys & Girls Clubs of America and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children Partner on the NetSmartz Workshop, an Unprecedented Effort to Safeguard America's Youth

Compaq Computer Corporation to Extend Innovative Web-based
Programming Globally to Children, Families and Educators

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EVENT PARTICIPANTS:

- Michael Capellas, Chairman and CEO, Compaq Computer Corporation

- John Walsh, Victim Parent and Founder, National Center for Missing
& Exploited Children (NCMEC) and Host, America's Most Wanted

- The Honorable Arnold I. Burns, Chairman of the Board,
Boys & Girls Clubs of America

- Robbie Callaway, Chairman-Elect, National Center for Missing &
Exploited Children (NCMEC) and Senior Vice President, Government Relations, B&GCA

- Ernie Allen, President, NCMEC


EVENT DESCRIPTION:
In June 2000, the NCMEC issued a report to Congress, Online
Victimization:A Report on the Nation's Youth, providing surprising findings about the rates of online victimization, who the offenders are, and how youth and families are reacting to online sexual solicitations and sexually-explicit images. In response, B&GCA and NCMEC have teamed to launch an unprecedented Web-based, age-appropriate Internet safety program to be piloted in 50 Boys & Girls Clubs this month, and then rolled out nationally to their 2,800 clubs. Compaq Computer Corporation has donated $1.5 million to enable children, parents and educators worldwide to access the NetSmartz Workshop program via online audio and video streaming at www.NetSmartz.org. Through the Compaq/NetSmartz Studio, on site at NCMEC, new, innovative Internet safety activities utilizing the latest 3-D and Web technologies will be developed to teach kids, parents and educators about the risks online.

Almost 24 million children (10-17), are currently online regularly each
month, exploring the Internet as the new medium of choice to learn, play
and communicate with others. These new animated lesson plans provide
fun, interactive lessons for three age groups, that will provide kids with the skills they need to stay safer online.