[governance] Digital Agenda: Coalition of top tech & media companies to make internet better place for our kids

[Narine Khachatryan]

*Digital Agenda: Coalition of top tech & media companies to make internet
better place for our kids*

Dec 01, 2011, Brussels - 28 leading companies have come together to form a
new Coalition to make a better and safer internet for children. Put
together by the European Commission, founding Coalition members are: Apple,
BSkyB, BT, Dailymotion, Deutsche Telekom, Facebook, France
Telecom-Orange, Google,
Hyves, KPN, Liberty Global, LG Electronics, Mediaset, Microsoft, Netlog,
Nintendo, Nokia, Opera Software, Research in Motion, RTL Group, Samsung,
Sulake, Telefonica, TeliaSonera, Telenor Group, Tuenti, Vivendi, Vodafone.


The founding Coalition members have agreed a Statement of
Purpose<http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/sip/docs/ceo_coalition_statement.pdf>
 agreeing to take action in five areas:

·                    *Simple and robust reporting tools:* easy-to-find and
recognisable features on all devices to enable effective reporting and
responses to content and contacts that seem harmful to kids;

·                    *Age-appropriate privacy settings:* settings which
take account of the needs of different age groups (such settings determine
how widely available a user's information is; for example whether contact
details or photos are available only to close contacts rather than to the
general public);

·                    *Wider use of content classification:* to develop a
generally valid approach to age-rating, which could be used across sectors
and provide parents with understandable age categories;

·                    *Wider availability and use of parental control:*
user-friendly
tools actively promoted to achieve the widest possible take-up;

·                    *Effective takedown of child abuse material*: to
improve cooperation with law enforcement and hotlines, to take proactive
steps to remove child sexual abuse material from the internet.

 For more information see press-release
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/1485&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en



-- 
Nariné Khachatryan
Media Education Center
Yerevan, Armenia
http://www.immasin.am  <http://www.immasin.am>
http://www.safe.am/
http://www.mediaeducation.am/
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