Associate Membership

Ground Rules for Associate Members –

• Members are willing to share challenges, and lessons learned as well as successes;
• Members strive to create an environment of trust and to foster insightful, non-threatening discussion of ideas and experiences;
• Members distribute leadership responsibilities and collectively share in the management of the Alliance;
• Membership and topics reflect Safe and Healthy Internet for Children and Adolescent issues and organizations;
• Members advance their personal and professional goals through participation in the Alliance;
• Members are practitioners, academics, researchers and policy makers contributing to the Alliance through their experiences, skills, and time;
• Members agree to be respectful and use appropriate language in group discussions and to listen and respond to each other with open and constructive minds;
• Members will not be afraid to respectfully challenge one another by asking questions, but refrain from personal attacks – focus on ideas;
• Members agree to operate around the following governance principles: participation, transparency, responsiveness, consensus orientation, equity and inclusiveness, effectiveness and efficiency, accountability, and rules of engagement;
• Members will participate to the fullest extent possible – Alliance growth depends on the inclusion of every individual voice;
• Members commit to search for opportunities for consensus or compromise and for creative solutions;
• Members will contribute to an atmosphere of problem solving rather than stating positions;
• Members will attempt to build on each member’s strengths, and help each other improve areas in need of further development;
• Members agree to speak from their own experiences instead of generalizing in internal Alliance meetings;
• Members agree to speak in collective voice on the basis of evidence and strategy decided collectively for the achievement of objectives of the Alliance.

INDIVIDUAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL BENEFITS

Through the sharing, creation and management of knowledge around the issues of Safe and Healthy Internet for Children and Adolescents, the Alliance enables organisations to –

• Do large scale policy engagement and practice influencing work
• Continue learning and developing professionally
• Access expertise
• Improve communication with peers
• Increase productivity and quality of work
• Network to keep current in the field
• Develop a sense of professional identity
• Enhance professional reputation

The Alliance benefits the organizations by –

• Reducing time/cost to retrieve information
• Reducing learning curves
• Improving knowledge sharing and distribution
• Enhancing coordination, standardization, and synergies across organizational units
• Reducing rework and reinvention
• Enabling innovation
• Benchmarking against influencing sector standards

Become an Associate Member