CEOs and senior board members from the world's digital, media and tech companies have met in Brussels to report directly to Commission Vice President Neelie Kroes on how they are making the internet a better, and safer, place for kids, through the work of the CEO Coalition set up by the Vice-President at the end of 2011.
Children now go online at very young ages, and the CEO Coalition has been working on: strong, simple reporting tools for users who experience problems; a choice of age-appropriate privacy setting; wider use of content classification so users and their parents know what to expect while surfing online; wider availability and use of parental controls; and more effective takedown systems for child sexual abuse material.
Speaking in the meeting, CEOs repeated the message that when children's issues are concerned, it is co-operation and not competition that counts. They set out a number of areas for further collaboration:
- Sharing all their educational material via an online platform so that material produced by one company can be reused, free-of-charge, by any other organisation throughout the EU
- Developing a common branding or logo for initiatives across Europe, to scale up efforts and maximise awareness
- Involving the hundreds of thousands of people who work for Coalition companies in education and outreach to children. This includes through encouraging staff to talk about how to be safe online in their children's schools.
- Working together to raise awareness amongst parents
- Broadening best practices beyond the Coalition, to join forces across the whole Internet
- Extract of the Press Conference
Sulake its in this CEO Coalition for improve the internet for kids, and the newest Chief Executive Manager of Sulake, Antti-Jussi Suominen, released the following statement in a video.
Text of the video: (We don't know if the text is quite right)
"The CEO's Coalition is a great opportunity for us to collaborate together with the industry partners and share best practice, experiences and knowledge on online safety. It is very important that we continue to work together to make the internet a safer place for the use and that we collaborate rather than complete online safety. We see two ways. First, the recommendations of commitments agreed in the CEO's Coalition provide us a guideline to further improve online safety for Habbo and collaborationg with other industry partners we can build an online safety for other communities which in turn we help our users as well. Safety is a poor principle of so that decide your habbo, we already have available for the users an easy to use of tools to report any mysterious near happening in the sense. We also have a team of qualified moderators who analyze these use a generator reports but on top of that also can use a set of automated filters to spot any bad behavior, we believe that this combination of tools and human touch is what allows us to spot bad behavior and to act on it swiftly. We also want to continue educating the user's profile safety campaigns and to wear and cooperate with NGOs such as particulates in Spain or Meldpunt Kinderporno in the Netherlands just to name a few to stay on top of issues affecting our youth in this region and also to make Habbo as safe as it can be."
6 replies on “Sulake with EU to improve the internet for kids”
"or ------ in the Netherlands"
Should be
"or Meldpunt Kinderporno in the Netherlands"
More children, yawn!
Updated, thx. :D
Interesting..
wow :o
I think everything he said is pure bull.. "auto filters", yeah basically that's it. The moderation is so tight you walk into a room and ask how someone is, then you get banned for requesting personal information. Not to mention not everyone is 12 and a child, I'm classed as an adult and I get ruled over like I am about 8 like the rest of the users. |-)