This week we hosted some of the UK's biggest telecoms and technology organisations to celebrate the first anniversary of the Women in Tech pledge. We asked them why it's important for the industry to come together to support this. Check out their thoughts in the video below! 🎥 Allison Kirkby, Harmeen Mehta, BT Group Elizabeth Nguli Vodafone Clive Selley Openreach Lutz Schüler Virgin Media O2
Ofcom
Telecommunications
London, London 52,126 followers
Making communications work for everyone
About us
Ofcom is the UK's communications regulator. We make sure people get the best from their home phone and mobile services, as well as keeping an eye on TV, radio and on-demand content. We also ensure people don’t get scammed and are protected from bad practice. We also oversee the universal postal service, and the airwaves used by wireless devices. Right now, technology is changing how people work, interact and enjoy themselves. Much of our work is focused on making sure everybody has access to the communications technology they need and that competition can thrive.
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http://www.ofcom.org.uk
External link for Ofcom
- Industry
- Telecommunications
- Company size
- 501-1,000 employees
- Headquarters
- London, London
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2003
- Specialties
- Communications regulator, Regulation, Broadcasting, Telecommunications, Spectrum, Radio, Post, Mobile, Communications Market, Media Literacy, Public Policy, Competition, Television, and Video-on-demand
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Riverside House, 2A Southwark Bridge Road
London, London SE1 9HA, GB
Employees at Ofcom
Updates
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Working together to help get more women into technology roles! Last night we were delighted to welcome senior leaders from across the telecoms industry, to an event to celebrate the first anniversary of the Women in Tech pledge. The pledge has been signed by some of the UK's biggest telecoms and technology organisations, who have each committed to taking action to help more women build rewarding careers in tech. A huge thank you to everyone who joined the event and the organisations working to drive more progress in representation of women in the telecoms sector. BT Group CityFibre Colt Technology Services GCHQ Openreach Sky TalkTalk Three UK Virgin Media O2 Vodafone Vorboss Zen Internet
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Snapchat has introduced new measures to protect its users - including changes to help prevent teenagers being contacted by strangers. Commenting on these new protections, Richard Wronka, Online Safety Supervision Director at Ofcom, said: “Children will be better protected on Snapchat as a result of the platform implementing this package of measures. "Under the Online Safety Act, we’ve proposed that larger and higher-risk services should make sure children don’t get direct messages from accounts with which they’re not already connected, and that their location information should not be visible to other users.” More on Snapchat's changes: https://lnkd.in/ej4T6ii6
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🎧 We featured in The Rest Is Entertainment podcast this week, so we're catching up on the latest episode! In it the hosts talk about: 📺 The 10 TV shows we've had the most complaints about. 💷 The biggest fine we've given a broadcaster. 🗣 How social media and broadcasting complaints can feed into culture wars. Have a listen here 👇 https://lnkd.in/dGhNTciw #Broadcasting #TV #Complaints #Podcast
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Taking our media literacy plans out on the road across the UK 🌟 Last week, our media literacy team travelled across the UK's nations to share our draft three-year plan for media literacy and to hear your valuable feedback. Thank you to everyone who came to one of our roadshow events in Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh and London - including the media literacy experts who presented their work. #MediaLiteracy
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We won Public Sector Employer of the Year at the InsideOut Awards! 🏆 🎉 The awards are a celebration of the organisations and individuals who champion mental health in the workplace. We were also shortlisted for Best Women’s Health Initiative and Employee Network/Resource Group of the year. Congratulations to all our colleagues involved in these fantastic, supportive initiatives! 👏 #MentalHealth #Wellbeing #Awards
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Today we're marking the release of Ofcom's 500th Broadcast Bulletin, Ofcom's fortnightly update on our latest TV and radio standards cases.🎉 The bulletin is a go-to place for news on Ofcom's broadcasting work - providing details of cases we have assessed, new investigations and our decisions. Reaching 500 editions is a huge milestone for our team, who work tirelessly to assess thousands of TV and radio complaints throughout the year. Check out some of the key figures from our broadcasting work, since we started publishing the bulletin in 2004. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eNR4_P6g
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Want to know more about how we're working to help ensure a safer life online for children? 💻 Catch up on the remaining two webinars in our series on the Online Safety Act and our Protection of Children Consultation 👇 These are aimed at online services and anyone else working in the online safety space, this webinar series explains what online services’ duties are, the types of harmful content they will need to protect children from and the actions they can take to minimise the risk of harm to children on their services. Webinar 2: Content Harmful to Children and Our Draft Children's Risk Assessment Guidance: https://lnkd.in/eHn5gruy Webinar 3: An Introduction to the Draft Children's Safety Codes of Practice https://lnkd.in/emcjp8Rn #OnlineSafety #Webinar
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We're supporting Shout Out UK's media literacy campaign to help people identify dis and misinformation online. Watch to find out three steps to follow if you're not sure about a post. 👇 #MediaLiteracy
Ever heard of the terms disinformation and misinformation? 🤔 If you haven’t or are unsure on what they mean check the post for more info! #dismissdisinfo