As facilitators in Scotland for the HUWY project Young Scot are keen to get as many views from young people as possible on all matters related to the internet. As such, as part of our efforts, we have created four separate consultations onwww.youngscotsayswho.org with which to gather views. Says Who? is a fantastic tool for gathering the opinions of young people taking the concept of an online consultation onto the next level in terms of engagement, participation, and innovation with videos, external resources, comment boxes and more detailed surveys all in one place.
So far the responses paint a mixed picture of Scotland’s relationship with the internet, and how young people exist in this environment. To use the issue of Cyberbullying as an example, from our ongoing consultation on Says Who? (http://www.youngscotsayswho.org/consultation/HUWY-Cyberbullying) there have already been some valuable opinions expressed. In response to the question of how big a problem Cyberbullying is one young person wrote, “I think it is a massive problem, but because there are no 'witnesses' like there would be at school etc, people don't know how much goes on online,” whilst another said , “I believe that it is a huge problem. I believe it is a bigger problem than conventional bullying now because it is much harder to get caught and schools won't do anything about it because it doesn't happen on school grounds.”