Children Protection on the Social Web

Hello All, 

Given that we have been given an extension on this XG, I was wondering whether people were interested in including a talk by someone knowledgeable about "Child Protection on the Social Web" (or something). The UK's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre[1] has recently been on a campaign [3][4] promoting their "Panic Button" [2], which has led facebook to installing it on their profile pages.

Would people be interested to hear about such things, and does anyone have any contacts in this space? Danbri mentioned that Phil Archer did some work with the internet content rating alliance (ICRA), on PICS related work for child-protection oriented content labelling (have cc'ed Phil in this email).

Do people think this would be an interesting topic for the XG to touch upon?

Regards, 

Mischa

[1] http://www.ceop.police.uk/
[2]http://www.ceop.police.uk/reportabuse/
[3]http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/04/13/facebook.panic.button/index.html
[4]CBBC newsround (high brow journalism  http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_8360000/newsid_8366800/8366865.stm
(yes super high-brow journalism there for you folks) - an indication that CBBC thinks this is a good idea though
___________________________________
Mischa Tuffield PhD
Email: mischa.tuffield@garlik.com
Homepage - http://mmt.me.uk/
Garlik Limited, 1-3 Halford Road, Richmond, TW10 6AW, UK
+44(0)7989 199 786  http://www.garlik.com/
Registered in England and Wales 535 7233 VAT # 849 0517 11
Registered office: Thames House, Portsmouth Road, Esher, Surrey, KT10 9AD