What do you know about the Internet?

Away from the stereotypical information known about the Internet and its origins in the late last century, we can say that it is the most widespread entity after television, it works to provide opportunities for governments, companies, organizations and individuals to write, share, teach, learn and roam in an endless ocean of information that attracts attention.

The Internet provides interactive services in terms of exchanging electronic messages, voice conversations, and video clips that are given to the researcher on specific information and all related ideas and experiences. It is a global treasury of human thought and human activities in photography, research, studies, ideas, experiences, news and information related to childhood, women, youth, the environment, human rights, financial markets, e-governments, forums and blogs.

It contains most of the world's books, as many libraries are uploaded on it, especially the huge libraries, the same thing with regard to education, whether it is systematic or unsystematic education in the fields of science, culture, arts, literature and law.

Does your organization have a website?

If the answer is yes, then this means that you have become available, and your information that you seek to promote has become available at the click of a button to anyone in the world. However, many institutions working in the field of children and combating violence against them in Yemen do not have a website that serves the purposes of the institution. This is a result of not paying attention to the importance of the Internet, institutions often have an e-mail that works on the rapid exchange of messages between the institution, donors, partners and target groups.

However, e-mail does not provide the information that the site can provide, such as clear, fast and ready information for each visitor. Statistical studies on a group of civil society institutions in Yemen have shown that few of them and often the largest ones have a website, and the website differs from one institution to another, between rich and poor websites.

Has your organization become a member of the Global Network in the fight violence against children “online”?

There are many international networks that work in combating violence against children, it accepts membership of institutions that work in this field from countries worldwide. Numerous statistical studies in Yemen have shown that the number of institutions that enjoy membership with global networks does not exceed 5 only. This means that many Yemeni institutions still have limited relations, not only at the global level, but at the regional and local level too.

Unfortunately, there is no name of a specialized network that combates violence against children, although there are networks for combating violence against women.

Although there are many Arab networks that allow regional organizations in the Arab world to have membership in their networks like the human rights networks and others related to women, but not networks for combating violence against children in particular.

One of the disadvantages of these networks is that they ask a fee for subscription, although many international institutions and networks do not ask for that. This makes national organizations in Arab countries, especially the poorest countries, including Yemen, unable to apply for membership in Arab networks due to the high membership prices.

We cannot join global networks because of the language barrier and the Internet itself as an unknown world. This makes the activities of many Yemeni institutions working in childhood local in activities, relations, thinking and results. Among the important national networks in the field of combating violence against children.

There was the National Network for Combating Violence against Children as a Yemeni network that includes a group of partners from the government represented in some of its specialized ministries and a group of the most active CSOs and donors interested in childhood issues.

The network worked to unite the efforts of partners in order to serve children's issues and combat violence against them, it was a candidate for many achievements in training and rehabilitation or child protection, research and studies that shed light on the issue of combating violence against children.

Does your organization have online partnerships and collaborations with organizations to combat violence against children?

There are many NGOs that work very actively in combating violence against children, whether this activity is the main activity of the organization or within some of its work, such as UNICEF, Save the Children, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and hundreds of other organizations that are active in childhood work directly or indirectly.

Do you cover on the Internet your activities related to combating violence against children in the media?

Unfortunately, Yemeni CSOs do not focus on the Internet's advantages in serving their purposes, building their capacities or relationships, or promoting their activities.

Although there are many specialized news websites and sites affiliated to local, Arab and international newspapers, they are unknown to those working in childhood. Many activists of childhood, and combating violence against children, believe that an activity would have achieved media success if it is mentioned in Al-Thawra newspaper, “being the official newspaper” . However, this means failure in the institutional media that does not deal with the techniques of the age.

NoWhat distinguishes the Internet for the activities of non-governmental organizations is that it is a large documentary store that is available at any time, and the permanence of the news on the Internet page, unlike the paper newspapers that expire at the end of their period, whether they is daily, weekly or monthly, in addition to this, the news on the Internet is often available to partners everywhere in the world, unlike paper newspapers, which are mostly local and do not go outside the country except to neighboring countries.

Hence the Internet as an excellent means of news coverage for all CSOs and NGOs working to combat violence against children. At the end the hope remains that the Internet will have a clear place in the activity agenda of Yemeni civil society institutions.

Who's on the Internet?

The Internet is the world inside a computer, above we talked about some networks, NGOs and potential partners if Yemeni organizations dared to extend their hand inside this network, in which you will find millions of hands willing to partner and work together.

It is important to note that many issues that were recently unknown to Yemeni civil society have appeared on the Internet like the bank of ideas through which the activist of childhood and combating violence against children can obtain wonderful ideas that have been tried and can be tried in Yemen, whether it is about ways to address issues of exploitation children, training manuals, guidebooks and reports that work to identify the aspects of exploitation facing children in all countries of the world.

It is similar to the reality of the Yemeni child. Getting to know about the problems of the world and how the world sought to solve them is useful in enriching the individual and the institution active in the field of combating violence against children with new ideas that increase the strength of the institution and the spread of its relations, which makes its work more professional.

As for the donors, we do not know many of them, however, with the click of a button, we can easily find many INGOs, networks and funds that work to assist national institutions around the world in their work through the grants offered to them, whether these grants are for projects that the institution will carry out in any of the fields related to children or to combat violence against children or to build the capacities of these organizations by hosting them in professional training courses, workshops and international conferences.

What is the last book you read about violence against children on the Internet?

Education is beginning to take a share, not only for those with practical specializations or certificates, but for activists in the field of human rights. There are many institutes specialized in childhood that specialize in teaching courses on issues related to this field.

What distinguishes the Internet from paper is that the digital book or digital study reaches the beneficiaries before the paper book.

This is not a dominant feature, but it is related to organizations that may not be able to print a specific study or research they have conducted because the cost of paper printing was not in their budget.

This necessitates the availability of a digital copy that makes it available to millions without cost, and this is what civil society organizations in the world, including the Arab world, are doing.

There are many books that have been printed in paper form, such as reports of some organizations or funds, such as UNICEF and Save the Children, but they are of little spread and distribution, they need cost of transportation and permission for transfer from one country to another while online books are available and infinitely downloadable, they can be on every device on earth.

The Internet is rich with reports issued by organizations specialized in childhood, including an explanation of the situation of children in the world.

As well as from institutions that are not specialized in childhood, but childhood is considered one of its important works, such as the World Health Organization(WHO) report on children and violence, in which information is provided on violence against children and forms of contemporary violence.

In addition to the many reports that the researcher finds on various international and Arab sites, national studies, reports, research and articles on childhood