1. National Strategy Guide on Online Child Protection
ITU Regional Workshop on Policy Advocacy & Capacity Building in Child Online Protection for ARB Region, Muscat- Oman, October 2011
Professor Julia Davidson, PhD
Kingston University & Centre for Abuse & Trauma Studies

2. Challenges Policy and Legal consensus across nations and jurisdictions
Development of shared definitions of online child abuse
Development of national frameworks to support local policy and practice
Advances in technology such as the expansion of mobile technology resulting in loss of parental control for younger children
Understanding converged environment- children don’t distinguish between online and offline in some contexts.
Understanding offender use of SNS and P2P on global scale- implications for child protection on SNS
Educating teenagers – appropriate behaviour and digital footprint & working with young children- different approaches needed?

3. Context: ITU Child Online Protection(COP)
key objectives:
Identify the key risks and vulnerabilities to children and young people in cyberspace;
Create awareness of the risks and issues through multiple channels;
Develop practical tools to help governments, organizations and educators to minimize risk;
Share knowledge and experience while facilitating international strategic partnerships to define and implement concrete Initiatives.

4. Guide & Toolkit Professor Julia Davidson & Karl Hopwood
Aim: to enable development and enhancement of frameworks by countries within different
geographical contexts.
Structured around COP strategic pillars:
Legal measures
Technical & procedural measures
Organisational structures
Capacity building
International collaboration

5. Guide and Toolkit Development Process
Draft guide & toolkit developed (October 2011)
Sent to partners for comment, partners asked to provide examples of practice.
Guide revised
Final document produced early 2012

6. Contact: Professor Julia Davidson Kingston University, London j
Contact: Professor Julia Davidson Kingston University, London