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IGF Theme(s) for workshop: Security, Openness and Privacy
Main theme question address by workshop: Ensuring security and protection of the online users (Security , openness and Privacy)
Concise description of the proposed workshop:
Protection of children and young people from exploitation has been already established as a key issue that needs to be adddressed at this forum and various workshops and discussions have taken place in the last 6 IGF sessions. Current studies and work of International agencies reveal that there must be continued efforts and mobilisation of various sectors involved within the Internet development and policy making to ensure such efforts continue to refine and be effective for the safeguarding of the rights of children.
The work carried out to date involves legislative reforms, industry best practices, development of technical tools and sharing best practices and lessons learnt. Various partnerships have started and initiatives focussing on awareness raising, capacity building, training of various target groups including children and young people have already taken place.
The session will bring leading experts from Industry, law enforcement and civil society to explore how the following objectives can be achieved:
1) Create an interface between the users and the providers (children and IT companies/ Social media providers in this case) and highlight the new challenges and vulnerabilities that are being experienced by them and useful recommendations that they can offer, coming out of the services they are using. This would also entail looking at the discrepancies and differences in practices of how these services are offered in different regions.
2) Sharing some of the new tools developed by Industry to aid law enforcement and how they can be expanded
3)Taking stock of how things have progressed within the IGF space and how these deliberations can feed into some concrete action plans for the future. Mapping some of the efforts made in the past to the changes that we see today to identify what worked and what did not. This way we can focus our resources on enhancing the partnerships that really blossomed and led to some concrete follow up.
4) How can global community help law enforcement in tracking online crimes against children. This is an innovation that can turn the regular users of ICT applications to build intelligence and support law enforcement with the help of services provided by the IT and mobile industry.
Background Paper:
Name of the organiser(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder groups:
ECPAT International - International child rights organisation who works with multistakeholder approach, working with law makers, law enforcement , industry, independent experts, academicians and researchers and children and young people globally.
ECPAT has ECOSOC status with UN and is a member of the Virtual Global Force and partner of the ITU led COP (Child online protection ) project.
Have you, or any of your co-organisers, organised an IGF workshop before?: Yes
Please provide link(s) to workshop(s) or report(s):
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=Workshops2011View&wspid=111
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposals2010View&wspid=72
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=Workshopsreports2009View&curr=1&wr=35
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
Jacqueline Beauchere (Microsoft )
John Carr (eNACSO)
Susie Hendrie and Natasha Jackson (GSMA)
Larry Magid (connectsafely.org)
VGT representative
Anjan Bose (ECPAT International) - Chair
Name of Remote Moderator(s):