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Companies unite to launch the first industry-led Europe-wide principles to enhance online safety for children

Brussels, January 19, 2012


The ICT Coalition for a Safer Internet for Children and Young People today announced its guiding principles for the development of products and services to actively enhance the safety of children and young people online.

25 companies from across the information and communications technology sector are signatories to the principles, which aim to ensure that children and young people obtain the greatest benefit from new technologies, while avoiding the challenges and risks which are of concern to people worldwide.

The Principles focus on the key areas of: content, parental controls, dealing with abuse/misuse, child sexual abuse content or illegal contact, privacy & control and education & awareness. Signatories pledge to:
•    develop innovative ways of enhancing online safety and encouraging responsible use of the internet and internet access devices by children and young people;
•    empower parents and carers to engage with and help protect their children;
•    provide easily accessible, clear and transparent information about online safety and behaviour;
•    raise awareness of how – and to whom – to report abuse and concerns.

More details about the ICT Principles and the actions to be taken by Signatories are available at http://www.gsma-documents.com/safer_mobile/ICT_Principles.pdf
The ICT Principles have been deliberately set at a conceptual level to allow the widest possible range of companies – from network operators through device manufacturers, content providers, search engines and beyond – to become signatories and ensure that child safety is an integral part of their products and services. The Principles differ from other ongoing initiatives because they provide a long term roadmap for safer development and cover all aspects of accessing and using the internet and its services.

Signatories will begin implementation of the principles in 2012 and a multi-stakeholder platform is being setup to ensure that industry signatories can get feedback from a wide range of stakeholders, including children’s advocates and national representatives. The ICT Coalition fully supports related initiatives from European Commission Vice-President Neelie Kroes.

The initial signatories to the Principles are listed below. They represent a wide range of technologies, including mobile, telecom, social gaming, manufacturing, content providers, and ISPs. They now call on other relevant stakeholders to demonstrate their support for child safety by joining the ICT Coalition and adopting the Principles.

Companies wanting to join the ICT Coalition and adopt the Principles should contact Andrea Parola, andrea.parola@eustrategy.eu.

 

 

Signatories

Press Contact

 

 

AVG

siobhan.macdermott@avg.com, US GSM +1415 299 2945

 

 

British Telecom

Michael Jarvis: Michael.2.jarvis@bt.com

 

 

bwin.party digital entertainment plc

John.shepherd@bwinparty.com

 

 

Deutsche Telekom AG

Andreas Middel andreas.middel@telekom.de

 

 

Facebook

press@fb.com

 

 

France Telecom – Orange

Nicole Clarke: nicole.clarke@orange.com

Sylvie Duho: sylvie.duho@orange.com

 

 

Google

Al Verney alv@google.com

 

 

Hyves

Rebecca Rijnders: Rebecca@hyves.nl

 

 

LG Electronics

Doohaeng Lee doohaeng.lee@lge.com

 

 

Massive Media NV

ines@massivemedia.eu

 

 

Nasza Klasa Sp. z o.o

Joanna Gajewska: joanna.gajewska@nasza-klasa.pl

 

 

Nokia

press.services@nokia.com / +358 7180 34900

 

 

Portugal  Telecom

media@telecom.pt / +351 215 002 000

 

 

RIM

blackberry@goodrelations.co.uk

 

 

Royal KPN N.V.

Patrick Mikkelsen Patrick.Mikkelsen@kpn.com

 

 

skyrock.com

Julie Rambaud -  jrambaud@skyrock.com

 

 

Stardoll 

Joan Lockwood: joan@Stardoll.com

 

 

TalkTalk

press.office@talktalkplc.com   +44 20 3417 1383

 

 

TDC

Lasse Bastkjær: labas@tdc.dk

 

 

Telecom Italia

www.telecomitalia.com/media +39 06 3688 2610

 

 

Telefónica

prensa@telefonica.es +34 91 482 38 00

 

 

Telenor ASA

Tor Odland: Tor.Odland@telenor.com

 

 

TeliaSonera

press@teliasonera.com +46 771 77 58 30

 

 

Unibet

egba@egba.eu

 

 

Vodafone

Media Relations: Tel:  +44 (0) 1635 664444

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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