Internet safety for kids

Last year Congress passed the Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act, which established the Online Safety Technology Working Group (OSTWG), a panel of 29 representatives from Internet companies, academia, non-profits and government to study and report on how to best protect online kids. In April, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced the appointments.

Disclosure: I was appointed as a representative of SafeKids.com and ConnectSafely.org, the non-profit Internet safety group I co-direct along with Anne Collier. I was also asked to head up the group’s Net-safety education subcommittee which was responsible for running last Thursday’s OSTWG meeting at the Commerce Department in Washington.