Sterrewereld
www.sterrekind.nl
Sterrekind (“Star child”) is an independent foundation
supported by a number of companies and prominent children’s doctors. In the
Netherlands there are 250,000 children with a chronic or prolonged disease.
Sterrewereld wants to improve the quality of life of sick children by creating
an interactive, safe, and virtual world via smart multimedia applications.
Through this children at home or in one of the 200 care centres in the
Netherlands can get easy access to the possibilities of Sterrewereld. It is a
meeting point on the internet for children and youths with a chronic or
prolonged disease. By the end of 2003 the Sterrekind foundation started with
Sterrewereld, a closed website where children with a chronic disease can get in
touch with each other. The next step was to turn the site into a web-based one.
This was a huge project and the help of Digitale Pioniers was especially
directed towards setting up a good team of (voluntary) editors.
Final products
In developing www.sterrekind.nl they learned a lot about the security, the editors, and
working with volunteers. In the Library one can find a research item about
internet use among children and an editor’s manual for volunteers.
Impact
By setting up the team of voluntary editors in a well
organized way it proves to be possible to weekly refresh the content on
Sterrewereld. The visitors’ input is used to decide which subjects are popular
and where more information is needed. All visitors’ reactions are filtered
against undesirable content, without violating the children’s privacy.
Sterrewereld has become a very well known website among its target group.
Because of the professional image many sponsors like to commit themselves to the
project, which enables the team to grow further and to offer more tools to the
children.
Contactgegevens
Stichting Sterrekind
Susan Osterop
www.sterrekind.nl
