[governance] Internet Safety Technical Task Force Report

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

All,

  As an FYI and in conjunction with the IGF survey:

Internet Safety Technical Task Force Report 
Written by andy    
Monday, 26 October 2009 

A year ago, I teamed up with John Palfrey and Dena Sacco to co-direct the Internet Safety Technical Task Force. I came to this project with the strong conviction that policy concerning children's safety should be grounded in data. In other words, rather than focus on what might be, it would behoove us to take a look at what is and propose solutions to address known problems in ways that align with the logic and social conditions in which kids live. For years, I had been watching policy unfold that would do nothing to help the hurting kids that I met. I was frustrated and wanted to make a difference.

 

Going into this Task Force, I was extremely naive. I genuinely believed that people were making bad policy, bad technology, and bad decisions because they lacked the data or knowledge to interpret the data. I was upset that so much research was behind the pearly gates of locked-down journal publishers and that, even when accessed, many people didn't know how to read that material. I believed that I had a responsibility to make research accessible so that it could be usable. I thought that presenting data would motivate people to innovate and devise solutions to help kids. I was wrong. 

Read more at:
http://cfcamerica.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1053&Itemid=11

Regards,



Jeffrey A. Williams
Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 294k members/stakeholders strong!)
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depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by
P: i.e., whether B is less than PL."
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