Global Trends in Online Safety

BARONESS SHIELDS OBE (Joanna Shields) is a leading technology industry executive, entrepreneur and public servant, currently serving as UK Minister for Internet Safety and Security in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
Baroness Shields spent over 25 years building some of the world's best-known technology companies, including Electronics for Imaging, RealNetworks, Google, Aol and Facebook, as well as leading several start-ups to successful acquisitions, including Bebo, Decru and Veon. She was most recently Digital Adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron, Chairman of Tech City UK and non-executive director of the London Stock Exchange Group. Prior to that, she was Vice President and Managing Director of Facebook in Europe, Middle East and Africa and oversaw the growth of the platform to over 1 billion users. She has also served as President of People Networks at Aol, a position she assumed after leading acquisition of Bebo by Time Warner's Aol unit for $850 million; and as a Managing Director for Google Europe, Russia, Middle East & Africa.

In July 2013 Computer Weekly named Baroness Shields The Most Influential Woman in the UK IT industry. She was No. 1 in Wired Magazine's 2011 most important people in the digital world. In 2014 she was recognized in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours with the Order of the British Empire for services to the digital industries and for her voluntary service to young people.

Giovanna holds a PhD in Sociology and Methodology for Social Research, and is a Lecturer in Sociology of Communication and Culture in the Department of Sociology, Università Cattolica, Milano.
From 2012 to 2014 she has coordinated the Net Children Go Mobile project (www.netchildrengomobile.eu), funded by the Safer Internet Programme. Since 2007 she has been the national contact of the EU Kids Online project (www.eukidsonline.net), and since 2015 she is part of its Management Committee. She is also member of the Management Committee of the COST Action IS1410 “The digital literacy and multimodal practices of young children (DigiLitEY)” She is the local coordinator of the FIRB project "Building inclusive societies and a global Europe online: Political information and participation on social media in comparative perspective" (www.webpoleu.net) coordinated by Cristian Vaccari. She is Visting Fellow at the Department of Media and Communications of the LSE from 01/09/2013 to 30/06/2015.
She is a senior researcher at OssCom, a research centre on media and communication based at Università Cattolica, and cooperates with ModaCult, a research centre on cultural production and fashion.
Her work focuses on the social shaping of the internet and mobile media among children and young people, online risks and opportunities for children, online participation and digital citizenship.

She was born in Milan on October 14, 1964. She is married and has a daughter. Since January 22, 2014 she has been Director of Telecom Italia Corporate Social Responsibility. After graduating in Information Sciences from Università Statale degli Studi in Milan, she worked for Apple Computer S.p.A. from 1989 to 1995, in the following positions: consultant for the Cupertino Multimedia Team, Marketing Manager New Media, Marketing Manager Consumer.

From 1995 to 1996, she was employed as Head of Marketing and Sales of the startup Italia Online S.p.A., at Olivetti Telemedia S.p.A., which subsequently became the reference ISP of Infostrada S.p.A..

She has been working in Telecom Italia since 1996, where she has held several roles:

• Head of Marketing of Telecom Italia Net (Tin.it) – Internet Area until September 2000
• Directory Assistance Services Manager until June 2005, repositioning, together with her group of approximately 2,500 people, the historic Directory Enquiries Service 12, making it a profit centre.
• e-Health & Personal Services Manager until December 2009, with the mission of planning and implementing initiatives to develop the vertical VAS (value added services) of the Health Care market and market segments such as social care and Wellness.
• Business Communication Manager until 2010, overseeing the creation and launch of the Impresa Semplice format.
• Top Clients & Public Sector Communication Manager until December 2012, dealing with advertising, events and digital communication, where she oversaw also the launch of the new Italian community for cloud computing, “CloudPeople”.
• Director of Corporate Identity & Public Relations Department until January 2014
• Director of Telecom Italia Corporate Social Responsibility since January 2014

Amanda Lenhart studies how technology affects human lives, with a special focus on families and children. A quantitative and qualitative researcher, Amanda is the Program Director, Health and Data at the Data & Society Research Institute. Over decades, she has examined how adolescents and their families use and think about technology, how young adults consume news, how harassment has thrived in online spaces, and how automation will impact workers. Most recently, as deputy director of the Better Life Lab at New America, Amanda focused on the ways technology affects workers’ jobs and lives, as well as the family-supportive policies that enable balance between the personal and the professional. She began her career at the Pew Research Center, studying how teens and families use social and mobile technologies.

Amanda specializes in translating rigorous research for a broad national audience. Dedicated to public communication, she has testified before congressional subcommittees and the Federal Trade Commission. Amanda’s work has been featured in numerous national publications and broadcasts, including the PBS Newshour and NPR’s All Things Considered.

Antonello Giacomelli (born in Prato in 1962), is Under-Secretary of State of the Italian Ministry of Economic Development - Telecommunications.
Mr Giacomelli is married with three children. He is a professional journalist, who started working for Tvr Tuscan, then passed to the Cecchi Gori Group as an editor of the regional broadcasting TV Channel 10 (Channel 10). He was the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Metastasio theater, bringing it to the role of civic and resident theater company for prose.
Deputy Mayor of Prato from 1999 to June 2004, he enforced the reform of local public services, in particular in the sectors of energy and networks. In February 2004 he became secretary of Margaret political party for the Tuscany and was elected as a member of parliament, a role confirmed in the next three elections, in 2006, 2008 and 2013. In 2008 he became a member of the national executive staff of Democratic Party.

Dr. Roberto Di Legami is a Senior Executive of the Italian State Police (“Primo Dirigente” is the correct wording of his rank in Italian).

As Head of Antimafia and Homicide Bureau in Palermo, for many years he carried out investigations against the mafia-type criminal organisation called “Cosa Nostra” and its connections with the secret lodgies of Freemasonry.

From June 1999 to August 2008 he was Head of Organised Crime Groups Department at Europol, The Netherlands.

In January 2010 he joined the Italian Postal and Communications Police, leading the regional offices (Compartimenti) of Sicily and Lazio before being appointed as Director of the Postal and Communications Police Service in July 2015.

He was hired as consultant to various European and non-European organizations, in the field of fight against organized crime and global security.

He was repeatedly awarded by the Chief of the Italian Police, as well as by several national and foreign judicial authorities, and other public and private entities.

In 2010, the Bulgarian government awarded him the prize "Giovanni Falcone", and honoured him with the title of "Ambassador of Legality", in recognition of the outstanding results achieved in the fight against dangerous Bulgarian mafia-type criminal organizations.

For the past 30 years, Stephen Balkam has had a wide range of leadership roles in the nonprofit sector in both the US and UK. He is currently the Founder and CEO of the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI), an international, nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington, DC. FOSI’s mission is to make the online world safer for kids and their families. FOSI convenes the top thinkers and practitioners in government, industry and the nonprofit sectors to collaborate and innovate and to create a “culture of responsibility” in the online world.

Prior to FOSI, Stephen was the Founder and CEO of the Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA) and led a team which developed the world’s leading content labeling system on the web. While with ICRA, Stephen served on the US Child Online Protection Commission (COPA) in 2000 and was named one of the Top 50 UK Movers and Shakers, Internet Magazine, 2001.

In 1994, Stephen was named the first Executive Director of the Recreational Software Advisory Council (RSAC) which created a unique self-labeling system for computer games and then, in 1996, Stephen launched RSACi – a forerunner to the ICRA website labeling system. For his efforts in online safety, Stephen was given the 1998 Carl Bertelsmann Prize in Gutersloh, Germany, for innovation and responsibility in the Information Society and was invited to the first and subsequent White House Internet Summits during the Clinton Administration.

Stephen’s other positions include the Executive Director of the National Stepfamily Association (UK); General Secretary of the Islington Voluntary Action Council; Executive Director of Camden Community Transport as well as management positions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London) and Inter-Action. Stephen’s first job was with Burroughs Machines (now Unisys) and he had a spell working for West Nally Ltd – a sports sponsorship PR company.

Stephen received a BA, magna cum laude, in Psychology from University College, Cardiff, Wales in 1977. A native of Washington, DC, Stephen spent many years in the UK and is now has dual citizenship. He writes regularly for the Huffington Post, appears often on TV and has appeared on nationally syndicated TV and radio programs such as MSNBC, CNN, NPR and the BBC and has been interviewed by leading newspapers such as the Washington Post, New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, radio and in the mainstream press. He has given presentations and spoken in 15 countries on 4 continents.