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WSIS Forum 2016 › Agenda › Session 144

Child Online Protection: The Road Ahead

International Telecommunication Union (ITU) / Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography

Emerging Trends and Technologies

The increase of Internet use worldwide and its accompanying innovation cycles pose the question of how children and youth can be victimized online and how technologies can facilitate crimes or harmful activities such as cyberbullying, child cyberstalking, buying or selling of child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) and the advertising thereof, or even child sex trafficking. The answers to such pressing questions require an assessment aided by the expertise from different stakeholder groups, including academia and the wider research community.

Building upon the Special Rapporteur’s report in December 2014 on current issues and strategies to combat child sexual abuse online, the panel discussion will anticipate future developments of ICTs, with the aim to facilitate knowledge-sharing and potentially to bring these emerging trends to relevant discussions in fora at the local, national and international level.

Moderator

Ms. Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography

Speakers / panellists
  • Ms. Annie Mullins OBE, Director of the Safery & Trust Group
  • Mr. Michael Moran, Assistant Director, Vulnerable Communities, INTERPOL
  • Ms. Vidya Natapally, Director of Strategy, Microsoft Research India
  • Ms. Susie Hargreaves, Chief Executive, Internet Watch Foundation (IWF, UK)
  • Mr. Steve Ahern, Managing Director, Ahern Media & Training (AMT, Australia)
Link to WSIS Action Lines
  • C5. Building confidence and security in the use of ICTs

The panel discussion seeks to contribute to efforts to "prevent, detect and respond to cyber-crime and misuse of ICTs" (C5.b) by sharing knowledge on emerging trends of ICTs that could potentially pose risks to child online safety.

Link to the Sustainable Development Process
  • Goal 16: Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies

• Target 16.2: End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children

The panel discussion enhances knowledge-sharing between different stakeholders and their respective research divisions on the subject of child online safety, part of the larger issue of child abuse, sexual trafficking and exploitation (as identified in target 16.2).

Session 144
  • Monday, 09:00 – 10:45
  • Room C2, ITU Tower
  • Thematic Workshop
WSIS Forum 2016 | WSIS Action Lines: Supporting the Implementation of SDGs
2–6 May 2016, International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Place des Nations, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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