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IGF Theme(s) for workshop: Security, Openness and Privacy
Main theme question address by workshop: Questions 1, 2, 4, and 5
Concise description of the proposed workshop:
The workshop will focus on the Commonwealth Internet Governance Forum’s Online Child Protection toolkit which was launched in 2010 and compiled by John Carr.
The toolkit was a collaboration of the CIGF, ITU and International Centre for Missing and Exploited children and is premised on the 6th edition of the Model Legislation for Child Protection. This provides recommendations of Best Practice with a focus on implementing legislation to effectively deal with offenses relating to child pornography.
The workshop will focus on the updating of the commonwealth’s toolkit which will include the updated model legislation and will indicate possibilities for partnerships between different sectors, such as industry, civil society and government to form a complete strategy for online child protection.
Presentations will be followed-up by a discussion exploring ways in which people can use the toolkit in their jurisdictions. As the resource is constantly being updated to keep up with the latest developments, we would like to use the opportunity to incorporate any new ideas presented by participants and audience that would improve the usefulness of this toolkit.
We will be promoting our workshop at our events preceding the IGF such as the Legal Frameworks for ICTs Workshop, in June 2012, and at ICANN 44 in Prague, among others. We encourage participants at this event to take part in the proceedings remotely and physically if possible.
Background Paper: final%20OCP11.pdf
Name of the organiser(s) of the workshop and their affiliation to various stakeholder groups:
COMNET Foundation for ICT Development runs the Secretariat for the Commonwealth Internet Governance Forum and the Commonwealth Cybercrime Initiative.
It is the lead agency of the Commonwealth Connects Programme, which is the Commonwealth’s official ICT4D programme. COMNET is involved locally in the Malta IG Group, on the advisory board of the ‘Be Smart Online’ Project, a local initiative, aimed at raising awareness of Internet related discussion.
COMNET is also an organisational member of ISOC and is supporting the establishment of a Maltese ISOC Chapter.
Have you, or any of your co-organisers, organised an IGF workshop before?: Yes
Please provide link(s) to workshop(s) or report(s):
- 2009- http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/index.php/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=Workshopsreports2009View&curr=1&wr=91
- 2010 - Online Child Protection Toolkits
- 2011 - http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=Workshops2011View&wspid=986
Provide the names and affiliations of the panellists you are planning to invite:
- A representative of the CIGF, where the Toolkits are hosted will provide an overview of what they have to offer and how they can be used.
- Sandra Marchenko, International Center for Missing and Exploited Children, will speak about the advantages of implanting the legislation using case studies to illustrate examples.
- John Carr will speak about the update since the first version of the Commonwealth toolkit was launched in 2010 in Vilnius.
- Representative of ITU will speak about their contribution to the toolkit and update.
Name of Remote Moderator(s):
TBD