Q&A: Interview with Mrs Leavitt

(chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2007-12-14 19:24

Editor's Note: Mrs Jacalyn Leavitt, the wife of Michael Leavitt, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, is the founder of ikeepsafe.org, an organization that promotes safe cyber surfing for children. She received an exclusive interview from www.chinadaily.com.cn and www.youth.cn on Friday. She also answered some questions submitted by netizens.

Moderator: Welcome, Mrs. Leavitt

Mrs Leavitt: Thank you.

Moderator: Would you please brief us on the organization I Keep Safe?

Mrs Leavitt: The Internet Keep Safe Coalition. The short name is I Keep Safe, and our website is ikeepsafe.org. It’s a nonprofit organization that combines political leaders, law enforcement agencies that work with Internet safety, the health and education community, child advocate organizations. All of these are also tech leaders. All of these join together to provide information and resources for parents and educators and families to keep children safe online and healthy use of the Internet.

Moderator: We also want to know about the current situation of American young people surfing the Internet today.

Mrs Leavitt: The Internet is used by 96 percent of teens, which means that basically everyone uses the Internet if they are teens. They are using it for webchat, for information, for homework. Very much for communications, and social networking sites are becoming very popular in the United States. Teens are very comfortable with being online.

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