Name: Jon Brown

Country: United Kingdom

Organization: NSPCC

Key areas of work/expertise: Social Policy, Child Abuse

A short bio:

Jon is a qualified Social Worker with a Masters in Social Policy from the LSE. During his career as a Probation Officer and Social Worker he has been responsible for setting up and managing a range of sexual abuse services ranging from therapeutic services for child victims, services for children and young people with sexually harmful behaviour and services for adult sex offenders.

Between 2003-07 Jon was Chair of NOTA, the National Organisation for the Treatment of Abusers (www.nota.co.uk) and remains on the National Executive Committee. He is also a Trustee of the Loudoun Trust which exists to promote evidence based research and practice in the field of sexual aggression against children, and he is a Board member of eNACSO (www.enacso.eu)

Prior to taking up this role with the NSPCC Jon was Operational Director of Children’s Services with Action for Children. Since April 2010 he has been in post as Head of Strategy and Development with the NSPCC helping to take forward the new organisational strategy in relation to sexual abuse. Jon is responsible for the design and commissioning of service, policy and research development. In January 2012 he also took responsibility for leading the NSPCCs work with disabled children. 

Name: John Carr

Country: UK

Organization:

Key areas of work/expertise: I have a foot in two camps. One is in the field of public policy making and the other is with digita

A short bio:

I graduated in law in 1976 but in the 1908s I started working with computers and networks. In 1995 I started writing a column about the internet and through this I made contact with child protection experts and organizations. They sought my technical advice about how the internet was developing and its likely impacts on children and young people. My involvement in campaigning around these issues started from this point.

„To me eNACSO is a great endeavor. We are bringing together children’s and young people’s voices from all over the EU and beyond, helping both the internet industry and public authorities to frame policies to make it safer and better for children.”

Name: Ana Luiza Rotta Soares

Country: Spain

Organization: PROTEGELES

Key areas of work/expertise: Child sexual abuse images on the Internet, children and online tech.

A short bio:

Attorney with an LL.M. INTERNATIONAL LEGAL STUDIES – Specialization in Gender and the Law and Human Rights Law by the American University-Washington College of Law. (Washington DC – USA).

Ana Luiza is the Vice President of PROTEGELES, the Spanish Safer Internet Centre.. PROTEGELES is a member INHOPE – Internet Hotline Providers Association and Ana Luiza served as its President from the years 2005 to 2007. Currently, she has just been elected to the INHOPE Foundation’s Board of Directors. 

Furthermore, Ana Luiza is European Projects’ Director at OPTENET, a Spanish company dedicated to the development of efficient cutting-edge technology in the selection and filtering of access to Internet, where she is in charge of coordinating the Company’s different projects in the area of protection of children in the use of new online technologies.

„To me eNACSO represents a unique opportunity to share knowledge and experience with other organizations throughout Europe and the world that work to promote a safer Internet for children. It gives my organization a stronger voice both nationally as well as internationally when fighting for the advancement of our causes.”

Name: Agnieszka Wrzesień

Country: Poland

Organization: Fundacja Dzieci Niczyje (Nobody’s Children Foundation)

Key areas of work/expertise: children and online technologies, awareness-raising campaigns, education strategies

A short bio:

Head of International Cooperation in Child Safety Online Programme at Nobody’s Children Foundation. Project Coordinator of Saferinternet.pl project, which is realised under EC Safer Internet Programme and promotes safe and effective use of the Internet and new technologies among children and young people. Since 2005 she has been involved in several international projects on children and the Internet. Since 2008 she has been a Board member of the European NGO Alliance for Child Safety Online (eNACSO). She is also the Polish representative in the Insafe network Steering Committee and sits on the Steering Board for the SIP-Bench II project (Benchmarking of parental control tools for the online protection of children). In 2009-11 she was a member of the International Advisory Panel for the “EU Kids Online II” research project.

Since 2007 Agnieszka Wrzesień is the main organizer and chair of the International Conferences “Keeping Children and Young People Safe Online” which are held annually in Warsaw by the Polish Safer Internet Centre. She is the author of various articles on online safety education and provides training courses to law enforcement and different groups of professionals working with children.

She has been involved in Internet Governance issues since 2007; she is one of the alumni of the Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme organised by the Diplo Foundation, and the European Summer School on Internet Governance.

Agnieszka Wrzesień graduated in International Relations (MA with honours) and Cultural Studies from the Warsaw University; she also studied Social Science at the University of Tampere in Finland. 

„Over the last years eNACSO has allowed us to make an important step forward in our understanding of child online safety issues. The network has opened an invaluable pool of expertise which we are trying to translate into concrete actions at the national level in Poland. We have also improved our advocacy capacities in order to work more effectively across partnerships”