Dr Mike Short, who is a member of the MoLeNET Advisory Board in his capacity as Chair of the Mobile Data Association, has been appointed to the Executive Board of the new UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS) which will unite over 100 organisations from the public and private sector working with Government to deliver recommendations from Dr Tanya Byron's report 'Safer Children in a Digital World' (http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/byronreview/)

 

Reporting directly to the Prime Minister, the Council will help to improve the regulation and education around internet use, tackling problems around online bullying, safer search features, and violent video games. This unprecedented coalition of experts and organisations

will ensure that parents and young people have a voice in the development of a Child Internet Safety Strategy, to be delivered early next year.

 

The Executive Board to the Council will be chaired by Home Offfice and DCSF Ministers and is expected to meet on a quarterly basis. Its role will be to provide strategic support and direction to Council activity, hold the Chairs of the working and sub groups to account and ensure progress against the strategy is secured. The membership of the Board is: http://www.dfes.gov.uk/pns/pnattach/20080215/1.html