 Hi, my name's Dave Miles. I'm the FOSI Director for Europe, Middle East and Africa. But from a family online safety perspective, I have to say there's still remarkable change going on within the region, not only in terms of the way youngsters use new technology, particularly with mobile phones, but their use of video and social media. So overall it's a very exciting time with some interesting trends. Yes, Grid, the Global Resource and Information Directory, is a free portal which is available to anybody that wishes to use it. And that tracks the activities of around 194 countries around the world. And the MENA region, which consists of 22 countries, we track 18 of those. So for anybody interested in the policy aspects of family online safety, the legislation, research and active organisations, Grid is an ideal resource to start. My name is Justin Weiss and I'm responsible for international privacy at Yahoo. Great, Justin, tell me what Yahoo is doing to keep kids safe in the region. Well, in all of our work, we try to find ways to accommodate local sensitivities and local interests. And in the child safety and privacy arena, we've actually had an interesting experience with a new product that was launched locally from our Dubai office that's available in Arabic, principally, also in English and French. And it's called Yahoo Oasis. A site like that is a way for us to help engage younger populations that are using technologies and try to educate on responsible and smart ways to still access the web through that type of gaming experience. I'm Luke Delaney. I'm European Policy Manager at Facebook. Great. Luke, what were you discussing on your panel today? We discussed a wide variety of interesting topics on our panel today. Interestingly, we specifically talked about young people and teenagers and what kind of protections we can offer them online. And at Facebook, we have a different type of settings for teenage users. For example, they can't be found in public search, so that if you were to look on a public search engine, they have slightly more protection because they can't be found. Social media can be used in a variety of ways by young people, including in the education environment. And we've recently sponsored a guide, actually, for educators that can help them find ways in their schools to use Facebook carefully and safely. For example, they could set up a group for a class project where students can talk with each other or with a teacher without necessarily even friending them so that they don't have to have that too strong a connection if that's what they feel is most appropriate. Or even with a public Facebook page, for example, some schools use those to educate parents on when parents they might be or sharing photos from sports day events. I'm Omar Mohamed. I work in Al-Jazeera as social media with social media team and leading some Arabic projects in the region. I do some of projects like Tech Readout to translate the Twitter platform. And also I do social media training for Al-Jazeera and some ministries here in Qatar and outside. The social media platform is the solution. So that's why they went in the revolution. But I think from my personal opinion, there is a gap between the expert in Arab region and the young. So that's gap is changed after they discover themselves and their problems on social media. There is other gap between the government and the young. So that's gap. It's take time to the government understand what is social media. It's good solution, but we will not go to the young. We say you are one and we cannot focus also on social media. And we say you are great platform and you help the Arab revolution. No, the Arab revolution is coming from the migration between the expert in our region and the young. And I think also the government, they finally they understand what social media. We say some of important and VIV people, people in Middle East, they join Twitter, they join Facebook, they join Google Blast and etc. side. We will focus about Arab region. We have a culture. It's control the activities from the kids. They do it online. And actually also from the religion side, we have a lot of orders from the parents to kids to control what they see it on the internet. Also the the changes have been between before all kids they have a computer now they have a mobile. So how can we provide them with some tips and knowledge? How can they control the technology? How can we tell them what's it's good, what's it's not not good from the government, from a parent, from safety online societies and etc. Hi, I'm Larry Maggett and I'm the co-director of Connectsafely.org. Larry, what were you talking about on your panel here? Well, with the impact of social media and although we were talking about online safety, we were really talking about how social media has revolutionized this region of the world. Certainly Arab Spring was a perfect example and how young people are using social media obviously for political and social change but also personal growth and their their own their own development. So it was really very upbeat positive panel with people from industry from Al Jazeera and from Facebook and Yahoo from the from the United States and Europe and a general agreement that for the most part this is a very positive development but of course we do have to be careful as as is the theme of this and other focey conferences to make sure the kids are using it in a safe and responsible manner. Yeah, as a matter of fact, Ann Coyer and I wrote a booklet called Facebook for Parents about a year and a half ago but Facebook is constantly changing and went through a radical transformation this fall. So we have a new version of our parents guide to Facebook in Arabic. Of course it's in English at fbparents.org. That's fb as in Facebook parents.org but it's also now in Arabic and we will have links to the Arabic version Spanish Russian other languages at fbparents.org but I don't know if it's because Facebook is late on us but before we use Facebook or Twitter, we used to have meetings and today if you look at it, I mean, the first, I mean, the top, I mean, 50, I mean, the website in Qatar, most of them have meetings with people who like to talk. And before the meetings, people used to do free tell. There was a green screen and they were writing and chatting and I mean, the messenger. So no matter what we did, social media means Facebook and Twitter. Social media means the connection between people through the internet to participate in a conversation or to participate in a photo shoot. It's specialized in the field of education technology. Currently, the first project we have is an online education game called Wanasa World or Wanasa World. The idea of the game is that we are building education in the field of education. Many people call us to build education in the field of education in one way or another. But we call it in a way that we try to reach the subject in a different way. The essence is that we have education because this is what students come and children come to the subject. But with education, we try to enter education in a different way. So that the teacher is encouraged to play, not to make the student suffer. For example, to explain the idea through the subject, for example, we did a simple sample on the subject of the university. How do we teach the students of the university? The children, usually in education games, they learn from the university, they come to study, then they add a number of numbers and say two numbers. Okay, three numbers, three numbers, and they will say a teaching game, at the level of the teaching game in the university. But we think that we take the subject to a higher level than this thing. For example, there was a child who was born in the year. The game has a connection with other players, it has a connection with the environment, with places, with objects, and so on. It has a connection with a great year, a great year, you can't move, and so on. The child asks for help, so he brings some benefits to the house. He tells the child, for example, my wife needs a sister-in-law, I need two sisters-in-law, my son-in-law needs a sister-in-law, my daughter is small, I need two sisters-in-law, and so on. So I gather the subject, if you can help me. Here, we can take the feeling of helping the others, helping the elderly, and so on. We learn this subject from the child. Then, the child goes to the farm, and he brings the children, he plays with the children, falls, and so on, and there is a difficulty in the subject. Then, the system asks us to remember, the great student asks us, where are the children and the children? So, you have the children's message, there are three, four, five, whatever you give them. So, here, they learn from the group in a different way. After they finish, they say, I learned from the group. So, we try to put the subject in its place, in its daily life. For example, if you go to the market, and you see one, and you see another, you know that this is a group, one, and two, instead of having theories in the book and in the school, it has nothing to do with daily life. So, in general, I am in the subject. I'm Kim Sanchez, and I'm with Microsoft, the trustee of the computing group. Well, it's important for Microsoft to be involved across the globe, because we have consumers and customers all across the world who are concerned about keeping themselves and their families safer online. And this is one of the ways that we can bring a culture of online safety and digital citizenship to the region. It's been great to see the commitment that people in the region have to online safety. And we just heard a presentation from ICT Cutter and learned a lot about the great work that they're making, the great work that they're doing to make sure that the kids are educated in this country. John Carr, and I'm from the British Children's Charities Coalition on Internet Safety. And I'm also the expert advisor to the European Coalition of Child Safety Online Organisations. We were talking about two things. Overwhelmingly, we were focusing on the positive uses of the internet and new technology in schools, in the education sector and the wonderful opportunities it opens up for children to learn in a more interesting and creative way. But we also, of course, focused on some of the security issues, the safety issues surrounding it. But I've been very impressed by the way the Katari government in particular are approaching online safety and the technology. Every kid in every Katari school has a computer, has a device which they can also take home with them in the evening. So the Kataris have recognised the central importance of the technology for young people in the future and are going about it in an admirable way. But also, again, they get the safety angle. They haven't let the safety concerns block out or blot out. Again, the positive aspects of what the technology can do for kids. So that was a wonderful thing to hear about.