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17-18th June 2009. GSMA/FOSI Roundtable:Mobile Safety and Broadband Responsibility for All - Full Agenda

Venue: GSM Association, 1st Floor, Mid City Place, 71 High Holborn, London, WC1V 6EA

The GSM Association and the Family Online Safety Institute will host two days of international roundtables to bring together some of the leading academics, industry thinkers and child advocates on mobile device safety.
These invite-only FOSI roundtables will provide an opportunity to explore the latest research from as far away as Latin America and Asia, and as close as Europe, on current concerns and future trends to keep families, and in particular children, safe from harm in an increasingly digital world. This research will help us understand the very positive ways mobile devices can be used, but will also share where we need to be more vigilant and aware for the sake of the future of our children.

As mobile phones are increasingly seen as the Internet access device of choice for tweens and teens, this cutting-edge research from around the globe will offer a flavour of some of the challenges to come, helping all stakeholders ready themselves for the sea-change.
We will look at current European activities like TeachToday and the EU Safer Mobile Framework to give a unique insight into near-term, industry-driven, often ground breaking initiatives.
Informed by the ‘Research’ and ‘Current Initiatives’ discussions on the morning of June 17th, we’ll go on to explore the trends and challenges in the sphere of mobile phone child safety that same afternoon.
We’ll get a better understanding of the impact of new technologies like location-based services during the Wednesday afternoon panel. Following that we’ll be looking at ways that industry can most efficiently and successfully maintain self-regulation, where it currently works. Finally we hope to gain a clearer understanding of the meaning and effect of convergence, for all the stakeholders.
Throughout these roundtable discussions, we need to remember that talking about child mobile safety today incorporates a number of components, including the physical and psychological well-being of our children, as well as their reputations and the consequences and legal implications of their actions.

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Wednesday 17th June

Roundtable (I) - Mobile Phone Safety for Children: Current Research, Issues and Future Trends

9.00am Registration
9.30am Welcome and Introductions - Stephen Balkam, CEO, FOSI

9.45am Keynote Researchers:
- Aaron Rattue, Business Group Director at the Retail & Technology Division, GfK
- Aiko Mukaida, MSRI, NTT DOCOMO

10:30am Research 
Panel One
Professor Sonia Livingstone, LSE – EUKids Online
Professor Rich Ling, Telenor Research Institute - Research into mobile phones
Maria Jose Cantarino de Frias, Telefonica – LatAm Research
Trish Church, France Telecom/Orange – Orange Digital Divide Research
Moderated by Stephen Balkam, FOSI

11.45am Current Initiatives

Panel Two
Aiko Mukaida, NTT DOCOMO
Jason De Bono, DCSF – UKCCIS 
Cristina Bueti, ITU COP
Annie Mullins, Head of Content Policy, Vodafone – TeachToday (in the Mobile Space)
David Wright, South West Grid for Learning – Pilot Study Progress
Moderated By Vicki Nash, Oxford Internet Institute

12.45pm Lunch (GSMA)

Panel Three
Aaron Rattue, GfK
John Carr, Children’s Charities’ Coalition on Internet Safety – Location-based Services
Robin Blake, OFCOM – Regulation around Media Literacy
Gary Thomassen, Rulespace  - Future technology trends; parental controls in the wireless environment
Moderated by Natasha Jackson, GSMA

3.00pm Round-up Discussion
4.00pm Closing Remarks from Stephen Balkam, FOSI, followed by Afternoon Tea Reception hosted by GSM Association

Evening Dinner Sponsored by Flash Networks (Invite-only)

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Thursday 18th June

Roundtable (II) - Broadband for everyone: The role of family online safety in an always-connected society

9.00am Registration
9.30am Welcome and Introductions - Stephen Balkam, CEO, FOSI
9.40am ‘Fireside Chat’
Derek Wyatt MP & Professor Tanya Byron – What does Digital Britain mean for the UK?

10.30am Panel Discussion
Presentation from Antony Walker, CEO, Broadband Stakeholder Group :Universal Broadband Initiatives

Michael McKeehan, Verizon – Overview of the US Department of Commerce’s NTIA Child Online Safety and Technology Working Group & US Broadband Stimulus Implications
Nick Truman, BT Retail
Moderated by Stephen Balkam, FOSI

11.45am Open Discussion
12.30am Lunch (GSMA)

2pm Parliamentary tour for those who want to join – John Carr

4-6pm FOSI Board Meeting