The KIDS-91 Newsletter A Global Dialog for Children 10-15 Years Issue number 2, Aug 10, 1991 IN THIS ISSUE I hope to become a famous novelist Winding down KIDS-91 KIDS-92 progress report What we can do NOW? Sponsors New Documents and Files The name is KIDLINK About KIDS-92

1. I hope to become a famous novelist

The goal of KIDS-92 is to get as many 10-to-15-year-old children as possible involved in a GLOBAL dialog continuing until May 19th 1992. We want their responses to these questions: 1) Who am I? 2) What do I want to be when I grow up? 3) How do I want the world to be better when I grow up? 4) What can I do now to make this happen?
Here are some recent responses:

>From Seoul (Korea):

1) My name is Kim You-Jung. I'm 15 year old. I am a freshman at Jung Eui girls' High School in Seoul Korea. My course is commercial so I study technical function subjects . I like to read Design books and mistery novels and write a letter and draw pictures and listen to music.
2) I hope to become a famous novelist. As a best writer I will plant "LOVE" in many people hearts.
3) As I grow up, I hope the world to be more calm and on very friendly trms among many countries. The world most not be contaminnated and racism also be disclled.
4) Not to pollute the earth, I must not use bad chemical production. I hope to compose a good book to make a human race of different religions happy.

>From N~un~oa (Chile):

1) Me llamo Luci'a Egan~a Rojas, tengo 12 an~os y voy en 6. ba'sico del Colegio Altamira. Tengo una tortuga de agua y se llama Morla. Naci' en Alemania el 22 de Marzo de 1979. Tengo 6 hermanos (hombres) y ninguna hermana. Me vine de Alemania cuando teni'a 6 an~os. Mi grupo favorito es Juan Luis Guerra y 4.40, aunque tambie'n me gustan otros cantantes o grupas. Vivo con mi mama' y mi hermano (Daniel, uno de ellos).
2) Cuando grande me gustari'a ser artista, actriz de Cine, teatro, televisio'n, modelo, pintora, foto'grafa, bailarina (de todo menos de Ballet), cantante y escultora, porque me encanta el arte. Tambie'n me gustari'a ser ecologista, porque hay que crear alguna conciencia para que el mundo no se reviente.
3) Me gustari'a que la gente no sea tan antipacifista, ni tan antiecologista, que no haya pobreza, que la gente no contamine. Y que los humanos fueran felices.
4) Hacer algo por la ecologi'a. Respetar ma's a la gente. En lo demas no creo que sirva mi ayuda. Ojala' pudiera establecer correspondencia con ustedes, o con otros nin~os de mi edad. Me despido, Chao, Luci'a Egan~a Rojas, Roma'n Diaz 2251-E, N~un~oa, Santiago, Chile

>From Kiev (Ukrain, USSR):

1) My name is Alex Yankovski. My age is 13. I live in Kiev (Ukrain).
2) When I grow up I want to be a programist.
3) I want that never wars, that people of all over the world become friends.
4) Now I can to write with childern from others countries. I want to have many friends.

2. Winding down KIDS-91

Mrs. Rankin's 8th grade in Paterson, NJ's School #18 (USA) asked the students how KIDS-91 and the computer in the class affected them during KIDS-91. This is what Dina Quiroga wrote:
"I have learned a lot about computers this last year in School 18. Now I know things that I'll need in the future for my career. I know people and things about them and their countries, things that I wanted to know for a long time. Now I have friends from differents nations and I am so happy with what I have learned at School 18 with my friends and my teacher."
The British children's newspaper EARLY TIMES printed a front page article on KIDS-91, and it was mentioned in an article on Santa Monica's "ELECTRONIC CITY HALL" in the Summer 1991 issue of the Whole Earth Review (USA).
There have been numerous mentions in other publications: the Spring, 1991 issue of the Teleclass International newsletter, several in Agderposten, Fedrelandsvennen, Nordhordaland, and Datatid (all in Norway). In July, the project was mentioned in an article on "Modemocracy" in the CompuServe Magazine.
In June, various versions of the KIDS-91 exhibition were shipped out to regional contact people in the United Kingdom, Brasil, Japan, the US, Czechoslovakia, Armenia - USSR, Norway, and Latvia. To get this exhibition sent to you for display, arrangement must be made with one of these contact persons. Write opresno@ulrik.uio.no for more information.

3. KIDS-92 progress report

Summer holidays on the northern hemisphere did not stop KIDS-92. Responses to the four basic questions continued to pour in from places like Tasmania and Melbourne (Australia), Manitoba, North York, and Toronto (Canada), Santiago (Chile), Gladsaxe (Denmark), Kyoto and Tokyo (Japan), Seoul (Korea), Knarvik, Bergen, and Eydehamn (Norway), Warsaw (Poland), Ohio, New York, Texas, and Washington (USA), and Kiev (Ukraine).
In KIDCAFE it was business as usual, even though the end of July was relatively quiet. Kids from Caecilienschule Oldenburg (Germany) collected responses to a questionaire on virtues of a teacher. "This has been done at our School already and we have got some surprising results," they wrote.
Kids from Australia, Czechoslovakia, Canada, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, and the USA opened the doors of the project's KIDCAFE and KIDS-ACT.
Sally Laughon (laughon@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu) volunteered to maintain a data base of teachers and others involved in KIDS-92. The purpose of these files is to facilitate contacts as projects are developed.
New projects surfaced between classes in various countries. One of them was "The Summer School Computer Chat", which happened in early June between San Marino School in Bueno Park, CA, Kanto International Senior High School, Tokyo and Santa Maria International School, Tokyo.
An edited transcript was published in KIDCAFE for everybody to enjoy. We learned that oishi means delicious in Japanese. Ohayo = Good Morning, arigato = Thank you, Hai = Yes, Iie = No.
From the Center of Informatics and Forecasting of Ministry of Culture and Education in Lithuania came exciting words of support.
In Japan, TWICS (Tokyo) and Aegis (Kyoto) made all KIDS-92 conferences available for their subscribers. In the US, KIDS-92 was hooked up to FrEdMail. We're working on getting our net more formally connected to FidoNet.
The Gallery of Computer Art was opened in July with one work created by 12 year old Sean Keithly from Des Moines, Washington, USA. The files is ART001 (UUencoded) or ART001-B (binary). For more information about how to send or receive pieces of art, get the files ARTCAT and BINSTART from the KIDS-92 archives.

4. What we can do NOW ..

The new discussion forum for kids, KIDS-ACT, is slowly getting in place. It has the potential to become an important meeting place for those kids who want more than social talk. KIDS-ACT is where they can discuss the steps that they can take NOW to make the world a better place.
Kids in Norway, Canada and the United Kingdom discussed exciting plans for a global newspaper for kids. Issues like garbage pickup/cleanup by kids, and online discussion of kids problems were also on the agenda.
We can hardly wait to see what happens once the kids discover the power of their new meeting place. Will it turn into a help line for kids? Will they focus on third world problems, child molestation, environmental protection, racism, drugs and peer pressure, or what?

5. Sponsors

The Norwegian Computer Society supported KIDS-91 financially with NOK 10,000 (appr. US$ 1,400). Det Kongelige Kirke-, Utdannings- og Forskningsdepartementet (The Royal Department of Church, Education, and Research of Norway) also supports the project with NOK 12,000.

6. New Documents and Files

The three files IRELAND, TWICS12M, and KNOXVILL are now available from the KIDS-91 archives. They are transcripts of online chats during the May 12th Celebration.
The following files are available by email from the KIDS-92 archives:

GENERAL		general information about KIDS-92
CONTACTS		list of people by country who may be contacted for more information about KIDLINK and KIDS-92
PROJECTS		KIDLINK Project Overview
PEOPLE		list of teachers and other people who may be contacted for projects,
WISH		list of what we would like to see happen, if we can only find the money to fund it,
ARTCAT		Catalog of the KIDS-92 Gallery of Computer Art
NEWS1-92		Newsletter #1
TIPS92		Tips about participating in KIDS-92
PHONEVU		information on the PhoneVu videophone
LOGO-BGF		KIDLINK logo in GIF format (binary file)
LOGO-BPX		KIDLINK logo in PCX format (binary file)
BINSTART		Binary Starter's Kit for MS-DOS
ARTCAT		Catalog of the KIDS-92 Gallery of Computer Art
ART001		Sean Keithly GIF/UUEncoded
ART001-B		Sean Keithly GIF/Binary File (for FTP)

To get a list of all available files in KIDS-92, send a message to LISTSERV@vm1.nodak.edu . In the TEXT of your message, write the command:

INDEX KIDS-92

The resulting file will also give you a short explanation about how to retrieve individual files from our archives. If you have problems downloading files, please email Odd de Presno.

7. The name is KIDLINK

The name of our current project is KIDS-92, and it is limited in time. We felt a need to find a generic name for our 'movement', and the final decision was reached on June 25. The generic name is "KIDLINK: Global Networking for Youth 10-15".
The KIDPLAN task force also addressed the issue of access to the KIDLINK Archives. These are the policies that we have decided:

All of the messages from all of the KIDLINK mailing lists are stored in publicly accessible archives on the North Dakota State University computer system. No specific permission is necessary to use them for research or publicity purposes. We expect those who use the archives to give credit to the source and to use them only in ways which respect the integrity of the kids and adults involved in the KIDLINK projects.
The local adult coordinators should make sure the kids understand that their messages are public and should help them deal with the issues of what is appropriate in a public forum. There will be differences among the sites in both the procedures and the judgements of appropriateness. For instance, some sites may ask kids not to post home addresses, while home addresses may be perfectly acceptable in other areas.

8. About KIDS-92

In addition to the young participants' responses to the four questions (see the beginning of this newsletter), we would like them to illustrate their future vision, for example in a drawing, a video tape, or something else.
On May 18th and 19th, 1992, the children will be invited to "chat" with each other in a global electronic dialog. Exhibitions of selected parts of the responses will be sent back to the world for the children to see and enjoy.
Our global online discussion forums, KIDS-92 and KIDPLAN, are meeting places for teachers, parents and other persons involved with the KIDS-91 project. The old KIDS-91 discussion forum is currently being used for review purposes.
The project operates the following forums for the children themselves:

RESPONSE		where the children send their personal introductions (their responses to the four introductory questions)
KIDCAFE		where they can 'talk' about anything they like
KIDS-ACT		where they can discuss 'What we can do NOW to make the world a better place to live'.

To join KIDS-92 through Internet/BITNET, send the command SUB KIDS-92 Yourname to LISTSERV@vm1.NoDak.EDU. (For example: SUB KIDS-92 Ole Olsen.) The command should be in the BODY of the text. The discussion forums are also available through several conferencing system and mail exploders around the world. Write us for more information.
All discussion forums are open for everybody, but only kids between 10 - 15 may write messages in KIDCAFE and KIDS-ACT.
The KIDS-92 newsletter is an information bulletin for teachers, participants, sponsors, mediators, promoters, and others. Suggestions and contributions are invited. We plan to port the next issue of the KIDS-92 newsletter during the first week of October. But please don't wait until then to plan activities in your community! And be sure to write us if you want to get on the mailing list for KIDS-92!! Onward!

Editor/Project director:		Odd de Presno, Saltrod, Norway.
Mail address: Telefax:		Saltrod, Norway (Europe). +47 41 27111
Online addresses: Internet: UUCP/EUnet: DASnet: IASnet: Saltrød Horror Show BBS:		opresno@ulrik.uio.no uunet!ulrik.uio.no!opresno [DEZNDP]opresno ADIAS4 SYSOP. Phone: +47 41 31378.

If you want to help out with KIDS-92, or participate, contact the editor, or one of the following persons:

You can also write to KIDS-92, 4815 Saltrod, Norway or just sign up ...