The influence of the Internet on the child, its risks and opportunities and the role of those who bear responsibility in this process were discussed at a workshop themed “Internet Governance”, which was organized by the Council of Europe Information Office in Moldova, the training center CMB and the company MoldData, Info-Prim Neo reports. The head of the Criuleni-based association “Debate Center” Serghei Lysenko said the statistical data show that most often the children use the Internet to communicate, including with foreigners, and the parents do not know that they provide personal data. According to Russian and Romanian statistical data, most of the children open websites with pornographic content in order to see scenes of violence and inform themselves about drugs. A lower number of children open websites about education, music, hobbies and games. The Education Ministry's representative Viorel Afteni said that it is not easy to ban access to certain websites as in the case of TV channels, which the parents bar by introducing codes. In urban areas, the parents can easier supervise their children as most of them have computers at home, but in rural areas the children can access what they want in Internet rooms. Alexei Munteanu, of the company StarNet, considers that the Internet replaced the street crimes of the 1990s committed by minors. “The navigation through the Internet is a new occupation. Now the children stay at home and play games. The parents should be only more responsible and learn now to block certain pages,” Alexei Munteanu said. The workshop was a preparatory stage for the Internet Governance Forum that will take place in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius this year. According to the head of the training center CBM Veronica Cretu, a film will be made after the workshop for the Moldovan delegation to the Forum. It will contain recommendations that will be transmitted to international key players that deal with Internet governance so that they know Moldova's position. The workshop forms part of the EuroDIG 2010 project.