John Carr

John Carr is Secretary of the Children’s Charities’ Coalition on Internet Safety, comprising all of the UK’s major professional child protection and child welfare organizations. He was previously the Head of the Children and Technology Unit at NCH.

John is an Executive Board member of the recently launched UK Council on Child Internet Safety. He was a founding member of the Home Secretary’s Internet Task Force on Child Protection where, inter alia, he chaired the sub group that developed a kitemark for internet safety software. John was also a member of the education ministry’s Universal Home Access Task Force, and has advised and evaluated for the EU.

John was formerly the Internet columnist for Prospect magazine and has written about the internet for The Observer, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and many newspapers and periodicals, both in the UK and overseas. In May, 2006, John was named by the New Statesman as one of 50 “Modern Heroes”.

In 2003 John was named by New Media Age as one of the UK’s 50 most influential people in the new media industries. Along the way John was also a founding trustee of DEMOS, one of the UK’s leading, independent Think Tanks.

John is also a Director of Net ID Me Ltd., a company which has developed online age and identify verification products and services.  He was formerly a member of Microsoft’s Advisory Board for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

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