Digital Safety in an Interconnected World

Josie Fraser is a UK-based social and educational technologist and blogger, currently working as an independent consultant.

She has local, regional and national level experience promoting and developing the effective and innovative use of ICT and e-learning design, delivery and policy. Working across a broad rage of projects, she is primarily interested in digital literacy, and the ways in which web 2.0 and social media can be employed to support community engagement and formal and informal learning.

Josie is active in online community research and development, serves on several national and international advisory boards, and manages the Edublog Awards (the annual international awards programme for educators who use weblogs and social media). In September 2008 the Association for Learning Technology awarded her the title Individual Learning Technologist of the Year “for ground-breaking work in the learning technology domain”.

She frequently works with the charity Childnet International, and was one of a team of two who delivered the Safe To Learn: Cyberbullying Guidance for the UK’s Department for Children, Schools and Families. She recently produced Young People and Social Networking Services, a research project commissioned by Becta, and is currently working on the production of cyberbullying advice to support UK school staff on behalf of Childnet for the DCSF.