Cyber Crime and Cyber Terrorism

CHILD-CENTERED INFORMATION FLOWS
A holistic approach to child protection dictates that a cross-border child Information 
Management and Child Protection trafficking response system should support the 

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CHAPTER 11
ICT as a protection tool against child exploitation
full range of activities triggered by the reporting of a missing child who is presumed 
to have been trafficked. Taking an event-based approach favored by human rights 
organizations, a series of high level events can be identified. These include but are 
not limited to: child is reported as missing; child is recovered; child’s body has been 
found; child is referred for rehabilitation; child is safely integrated into a new envi-
ronment in the country in which (s) he was rescued; repatriation process has been 
initiated; repatriation has been completed/process of reintegration has be set in train; 
and child is safely reintegrated into their family and community.
Each event triggers a set of child-centered actions and information flows that can 
be configured based on the details of the event and the context in which the event is 
occurring. 
Figure 11.1
describes the information flow that should take place in the 
source country for the first event in the process, which is that a child is reported as 
missing. It shows a series of six fundamental actions that should occur as follows:
Intake of initial missing child report. This occurs when a family member 
approaches the police or other agency to report a missing child.
5.Alerting
Child is suspected of being
trafficked cross border
Take appropriate
action
(reunification/
repatriation...)
6.Analysis of data
and generation
of reports
4.Recording of
missing child
for purposes
of cross-border
alerting
3.Verification
and
analysis
2.Fact-finding and disclosure
(interviewing of family and
other information gathering
techniques)
1.Intake of
initial missing
child report
No
Yes
Follow-up alerts