Kontrol Bende Safety Programs Children's Rights and Safety Advisory Board


The Advisory Board consists of medical doctors, academics specializing on gaming and remote learning, teachers, and civil society professionals. They have been convened in 2020 to provide guidelines for Meta (Facebook then) in the newly developing game through meetings held online each quarter. The members of the board are willing to offer their expertise on further issues upon request.

Advisory Board

Prof. Dr. Betül Ulukol

Prof. Dr. Betül Ulukol is faculty member of Social Pediatrics of Children's Health and Illnesses Field at the Medical School of Ankara University. She specializes in protecting children's health and issues of children at risk, and she researches and publishes on the trajectory of children's health, violence towards children, and systems of child protection. She is the founding president oof Children and Information Safety Association, founded in 2008.

Prof. Dr. Mehmet Barış Horzum

Dr. Horzum works at Sakarya University. His areas of expertise are distant learning and negative effects of technology among many others.

Assoc. Dr. Yavuz Samur

Dr. Samur graduated from Instructional Design and Technology, Department of Learning Sciences and Technologies at Virginia Tech with the Fulbright Scholarship and currently works as an Associate Professor at Bahçeşehir University, Faculty of Educational Sciences in the department of Computer Education and Instructional Technology (CEIT). He is also vice dean of Faculty of Educational Sciences and also head of the CEIT department. He is the coordinator of Educational Technology (TR/EN, Thesis/Project) master’s and doctoral programme. His research interests are on using educational games for learning and instruction, gamification in education, educational game design, digital game design, multimedia design, technology/social media/game addiction and (digital) game based learning.

Assist. Assoc. Dr. Esra Ercan Bilgiç

Dr. Esra Ercan Bilgiç is a faculty member at the New Media Department at Bilgi University. She is the founder and general coordinator of Digital Media and Child, a platform producing content based on academic knowledge for parents. She is a member of European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA); Children, Youth and Media Section and International Communication Association (ICA) Children, Adolescents, and Media Division. She teaches, conducts seminars, manages research projects, and consults on digital media, children and family relations.

Başak Uysal Giray

Başak Uysal Giray graduated from the Department of Elementary School Teaching at Hacettepe University. She has been working as a teacher in İstanbul since 2002. She is contributing to her students' gaining diverse points of view by engaging with civil society organizations specailizing on children.

Fulden Ergen

Since 2018, Fulden Ergen has been Communications Coordinator at Öğretmen Ağı, a sharing and cooperation network which empower teachers by bringing them together with their colleagues and individuals and institutions from various disciplines. In addiition, she lends expert support to civil society professionals in topics such as communication, advocacy, and capacity building.

Haluk Göksel

Haluk obtained an undergraduate degree in Economics from Istanbul University and an MPS degree in Interactive Telecommunication from New York University. He has gained 15 years experience in digital marketing while working at TeamSQL, SadeceOn, Garanti Pension and Life, Ping, Proximity Istanbul, Rafineri in the fields of project and client management and digital marketing. Currently he is the digital engagement coordinator of the project entitled ‘Teachers Network’ conducted by Education Reform Initiative."

Emine Özge Karakaya

Özge Karakaya is a strategist and experience designer working in the fields of brand communication and social innovation. She developed national and global scale brand and communication strategies for 50+ brands during her career at Futrurebrigh Group. She joined Eğitim Reformu Girişimi in order to devote her skills to making the world she lives in better in 2016. In addition to her tenure at ERG, where she has developed cooperation between sectors, and managed award-winning campaigns while directing ERG's voice, she is a Professional Fellow for the US Secretary of State and guest lecturer at National Institute of Design in India.

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