BRUSSELS, Jan. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ --
The ICT Coalition for a Safer Internet for Children and Young People today announced its guiding principles for the development of products and services to actively enhance the safety of children and young people online.
25 companies from across the information and communications technology sector are signatories to the principles, which aim to ensure that children and young people obtain the greatest benefit from new technologies, while avoiding the challenges and risks which are of concern to people worldwide.
The Principles focus on the key areas of: content, parental controls, dealing with abuse/misuse, child sexual abuse content or illegal contact, privacy & control and education & awareness. Signatories pledge to:
More details about the ICT Principles and the actions to be taken by Signatories are available at http://www.gsma-documents.com/safer_mobile/ICT_Principles.pdf
The ICT Principles have been deliberately set at a conceptual level to allow the widest possible range of companies - from network operators through device manufacturers, content providers, search engines and beyond - to become signatories and ensure that child safety is an integral part of their products and services. The Principles differ from other ongoing initiatives because they provide a long term roadmap for safer development and cover all aspects of accessing and using the internet and its services.
Signatories will begin implementation of the principles in 2012 and a multi-stakeholder platform is being setup to ensure that industry signatories can get feedback from a wide range of stakeholders, including children's advocates and national representatives. The ICT Coalition fully supports related initiatives from European Commission Vice-President Neelie Kroes.
The initial signatories to the Principles are listed below. They represent a wide range of technologies, including mobile, telecom, social gaming, manufacturing, content providers, and ISPs. They now call on other relevant stakeholders to demonstrate their support for child safety by joining the ICT Coalition and adopting the Principles.
Companies wanting to join the ICT Coalition and adopt the Principles should contact Andrea Parola, andrea.parola@eustrategy.eu.
Signatories | Press Contact | |||
AVG | siobhan.macdermott@avg.com, US GSM +1415 299 2945 | |||
British Telecom | Michael Jarvis: Michael.2.jarvis@bt.com | |||
bwin.party digital entertainment plc | John.shepherd@bwinparty.com | |||
Deutsche Telekom AG | Andreas Middel andreas.middel@telekom.de | |||
press@fb.com | ||||
France Telecom – Orange | Nicole Clarke: nicole.clarke@orange.com Sylvie Duho: sylvie.duho@orange.com |
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Al Verney alv@google.com | ||||
Hyves | Rebecca Rijnders: Rebecca@hyves.nl | |||
LG Electronics | Doohaeng Lee doohaeng.lee@lge.com | |||
Massive Media NV | ines@massivemedia.eu | |||
Nasza Klasa Sp. z o.o | Joanna Gajewska: joanna.gajewska@nasza-klasa.pl | |||
Nokia | press.services@nokia.com / +358 7180 34900 | |||
Portugal Telecom | media@telecom.pt / +351 215 002 000 | |||
RIM | blackberry@goodrelations.co.uk | |||
Royal KPN N.V. | Patrick Mikkelsen Patrick.Mikkelsen@kpn.com | |||
skyrock.com | Julie Rambaud - jrambaud@skyrock.com | |||
Stardoll | Joan Lockwood: joan@Stardoll.com | |||
TalkTalk | press.office@talktalkplc.com +44 20 3417 1383 | |||
TDC | Lasse Bastkjær: labas@tdc.dk | |||
Telecom Italia | www.telecomitalia.com/media +39 06 3688 2610 | |||
Telefónica | prensa@telefonica.es +34 91 482 38 00 | |||
Telenor ASA | Tor Odland: Tor.Odland@telenor.com | |||
TeliaSonera | press@teliasonera.com +46 771 77 58 30 | |||
Unibet | egba@egba.eu | |||
Vodafone | Media Relations: Tel: +44 (0) 1635 664444 | |||