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We're welcoming a new member to The Global Online Safety Regulators Network 👋   The Autoriteit online Terroristisch en Kinderpornografisch Materiaal (ATKM) is one of the Netherlands’ online safety regulators, responsible for monitoring and removing terrorist content and child sexual abuse material online.   Arda Gerkens, Chair of the Board of ATKM said: “Regulation of the online world is still in its infancy. It is of the utmost importance to join forces, so we can be as effective as possible in reaching our common goals for online safety.”    They will be joining organisations across the world working together to help people live safer lives online. Find a full list of our current members and observers here 🔗 https://lnkd.in/esrx4geF

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 

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

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

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 

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

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

🎉⚽ The Euros are here! ⚽🎉   It's kick-off time for the Euros and there are now so many different ways to follow the action. 📺🍿

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