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SPEAKERS PROFILES
OPERATION HAMLET
Operation Hamlet is an example why INHOPE is
the leading organisation in responding to online
illegal activity. In 2002, a report was received
about child pornography on the Internet by
Inhope member hotline. When it was investigated
a logo on the shirt of the perpetrator identified
the likely country of origin as Denmark.
The mission of Inhope is to facilitate and co-ordinate
the work of Internet hotlines in responding to illegal use and
content on the Internet
©2003 INHOPE Association
www.inhope.org
The report was forwarded to the Inhope member
hotline in Denmark and Danish Police. The
paedophile was arrested and the victim rescued!
INHOPE is part-funded under the EU Safer Internet Action Plan
A follow-up joint investigation by the US Customs
Service and the Danish National Police further
identified a ring of paedophiles who molested
their own children and distributed the images
on the Internet.
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In this case alone there are confirmed over 100+
children rescued.
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SPEAKERS PROFILES
MS. BRIGITTE ZYPRIES (TBC)
FEDERAL MINISTER OF JUSTICE
Born on 16 November 1953 in Kassel and from 1972 to 1977 Ms.
Zypries studied law in Gießen. Following the First State Examination
in Law in1978, period of preparatory training in the district of Gießen
Regional Court; Second State Examination in Law in 1980. Thereafter
Ms. Zypries was academic assistant at the University of Gießen until
1985. From 1985 to 1988 she was desk officer in the Hesse State Chancellery. From 1988
to 1990 academic assistant at the Federal Constitutional Court. From 1991 onwards Head
of Division, and from 1995 to 1997 Director General in the State Chancellery of Lower
Saxony. Brigitte Zypries was State Secretary from 1997 to 2002: Until 1998 in the Lower
Saxony Ministry for Women, Labour and Social Affairs; from November 1998 to October
2002 in the Federal Ministry of the Interior. From September 1999 onwards Chairwoman
of the State Secretaries’ Committee for management of the Federal Government
Programme "State Modernisation – Administrative Modernisation". Brigitte Zpries has
been the Federal Minister of Justice since 22 October 2002
THOMAS RICKERT
INHOPE President
Thomas Rickert was reelected President of the INHOPE Association
in May 2003. Since 1998, he has assisted the German Internet
Service Providers' Association – the electronic commerce forum, eco
e.V - in the area of content responsibility and in the protection of
young persons on the Internet. The members of eco carry over
85%of all IP traffic in Germany. Thomas is head of eco's Internet Content Task Force (ICTF),
which operates a hotline for complaints about Internet content. He is an attorney-at-law
who primarily advises companies on Internet related issues and partner of Schollmeyer &
Rickert law firm in Bonn, Germany.
PROF. DR. WOLF- DIETER RING
President of the Bavarian Regulatory Authority,(BLM)
Chairman of the Commission for the Protection of Minors (KJM)
President, Bayerische Landeszentrale fuer neue Medienborn in Vienna
in 1941read law at Munich University; graduation thesis 1972 on
constitutional issues
• Bavarian State Ministry for Labour
• Association of the Bavarian Chemical Industry; in charge of tariff and social policy
• 1975 - 1978 personal assistant to the Director-General of the
Bavarian Broadcasting Association, Munich
• 1978 - 1985 head of the media policy section of the Bavarian State Chancellery
(Prime Minister's Office); chairman of the "broadcasting standards" working group
of the German states' representatives for broadcasting law and policy
• Nov. 1980 - April 1985 managing director of the Munich cable pilot project
• April 1985 - Dec. 1985 acting director of the Bayerische Landeszentrale fuer
neue Medien
• Jan 1986 - Dec. 1989 managing director of the BLM
• since Jan 1990 President of the BLM
Publications:
• editor of the media legislation compendium
• co-author of the commentary on the German interstate broadcasting treaty
• co-author of the commentary on the German legislation for the protection
of minors in the media
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JAVIER HERNANDEZ-ROS
Head of Unit E4, Information Society Directorate,
European Commission
Javier Hernández-Ros is a civil engineer and has a Master in Business
Administration. He is Head of the "Information Market" unit in
Directorate-General Information society, European Commission,
responsible for the e-Content and the Safer Internet Programmes,
and for the "directive for re-use and commercial exploitation of public sector documents".
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PROF. DR. HENRIK.W.K. KASPERSEN
Dr. Kaspersen is the director of the Computer/Law Institute since 1991. His personal field of
research concerns different legal aspects of e-communications. He specialised in the
domain of Cyber Crime. As such he participated in different governmental advisory
committees. In the Council of Europe he chaired a number of committees of which the
most important result was the Cyber Crime Convention (ETS185 of November 2001).
Further, Dr. Kaspersen is the chief-editor of the Kluwer book series "Informaticarecht" and
a member of the editorial board of the periodical "Computerrecht", and a member of the
advisory board of the periodical "Privacy en Informatie".
PETER VAN DER WEL
Director Safe Internet Foundation
Peter van der Wel became director of the Safe Internet Foundation in
2002. Founded in October 1999 SIF aims at promoting a safe,
reliable and dependable internet. SIF wants to offer internet users
better possibilities to protect themselves from undesired information,
improper use of personal information, viruses and other attacks on
personal integrity as well as fraudulent money transfer.
JANIS WOLAK
J.D, Crimes against Children Research Center of the
University of New Hampshire
Janis Wolak, J.D. Janis Wolak is a research assistant professor at the
Crimes against Children Research Center of the University of New
Hampshire in the United States and an attorney. She was the
director of the Youth Internet Safety Survey, a national survey
focusing on unwanted sexual solicitation and exposure to pornography among 10-17 year
old youth. She is the Principal Investigator for the National Juvenile Online Victimization
Study, a study that includes over 600 interviews with law enforcement investigators about
Internet-related sex crimes against minors in the U.S. criminal justice system, and the Study
of Prosecutorial Outcomes that includes interviews with over 200 prosecutors about the
prosecution of such crimes. These projects were funded by the National Center for Missing
& Exploited Children and the U.S. Department of Justice. She is the author and co-author of
many articles about youth Internet use and victimization.
PROF MICHAEL ROTERT
President EuroISPA
In 1991 Prof Rotert was a founding member of the Internet Society.
Between 1993-1995 Prof Rotert was Managing Director of NTG
Netzwerk und Telematic GmbH for Internet access. From 1996 he
was General Manager of NTG/Xlink (later Xlink Internet Service
GmbH). In January 2000 he was appointed Senior Vice President for
research and development at KPNQwest in Amsterdam . In July 2000 he became Country
Manager and Managing Director for VIA NET.WORKS Germany. He joined the Executive
Board GTEN AG in 2003. He achieved his professor degree in 1999 from the University of
Technology, Karlsruhe and is chairman of electronic commerce forum (www.eco.de) and
internet service provider association of Germany since January 1st 2000. Prof Rotert has
been a board member of EuroISPA EIIG (www.euroispa.org), Bruxelle - the European
Internet Service Provider Association - and was elected President in September 2003.
SANDY STARR
spiked
SANDY STARR is public relations officer at the online current affairs
publication spiked [www.spiked-online.com], and coordinates
spiked's analysis of information technology issues. He also writes for
publications ranging from the Times Literary Supplement to The Sun
newspaper, and is a contributor to the recent book 'The Internet:
Brave New World?'. He has worked with the European Commission research project Rights
Watch on copyright regulation issues, and with the Organisation for Security and
Cooperation in Europe on internet regulation more broadly. He believes in unqualified
freedom of expression, and he is concerned that new frame works of human rights and
self-regulation are invisibly eroding free expression on the internet.
ANNE COLLIER
Editor, Net Family News
Anne Collier, president and editor of Net Family News, has worked in
media since. 1980 - in print, radio and television, as well as on the
Internet.
In January 1999 she launched Net Family News, Inc., as a nonprofit
public service to parents, teachers, and other care givers of online kids. It now has
subscribers in more than 50 countries. Its mission is to promote children's constructive
use of the Internet by helping grownups stay informed about and engaged in their kids'
experiences with technology and the Net.
PATRICK VERNIERS
Educaunet
Patrick Verniers is director of Media Animation npo since 1996. He is
coordinator of European project “Educaunet” (Internet Action Plan) – a
European programme to develop critical awareness of Internet risks
through media education. As training expert specialized in media
education since 1988, he is author and co-author of number of
pedagogical reference publications in field of media and education, internet and education, etc.
Due to this expertise, he was invited to participate in a number of different governmental
boards in Belgium (French community) including the Internet access governmental board,
the Governmental board for media education, the Higher Board for audio visual, the Higher
board for long life during education. He is a television writer for educational programs, a
consultant for educational and cultural communication. Mr. Verniers has a Master’s degree
in social communication (University of Louvain-la-neuve). He is currently chief of training for
social communication department of University of Louvain-la-neuve. (since 1999)
CLAIRE BALFOUR
School Education Manager, Internet Safety Group (ISG), New Zealand
Claire Balfour was a founding member of the ISG in 1998 and until
recently was the Second Principal of a large, multi-cultural secondary
school. With ISG Director, Liz Butterfield, she co-authored the 2000
Internet Safety Kit and the 2003 NetSafe Kit for Schools. Claire provides
general and crisis support to schools so they meet their legislative
responsibility regarding a cybersafe learning environment. At present she is developing
NetSafe training modules to be delivered nationally to key school personnel. A recipient of a
2002 Winston Churchill Fellowship, Claire researched cyber safety initiatives in Canada, the
United Kingdom and the United States.
GEOFF SUTTON
General Manager, MSN Europe
DR. CHRISTIAN AHLERT
Project Manager (www.selfregulation.info)
Dr. Christian Ahlert is the project manager of the IAPCODE project
(www.selfregulation.info) and a Research Fellow at the Programme in
Comparative Media Law & Policy. The IAPCODE project is funded
under the Safer Internet Action Plan by the European Commission to
investigate self-regulatory codes of conduct across national, EU and
international boundaries covering a wide range of media from Internet, film, video (games),
(digital) television to mobile communications. His research focuses currently on self-regulation,
digitial media and internet policy and regulation. His latest publication (Campus 2003)
“WeltWeiteWahlen im Internet” explores the relationship of Internet Governance, Self
Regulation and Democracy by examining the creation of the Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers (ICANN). Previously he was a fellow at the Kennedy School of
Governments' "Harvard Information Infrastructure Project" and was a founding member of the
"NGO and Academic ICANN Study", an international project, funded by the Markle
Foundation, that analyzed the global internet selfregulator ICANN. Most recently he convened
the international conference “Politics of Code – Shaping the Future of the Next Internet” at
Oxford (see: www.codepolitics.info).
GARETH SANSOM
Canadian Department of Justice
Gareth Sansom is the Director of Technology & Analysis in the Criminal
Law Policy Section of Canada's Department of Justice. For the past
dozen years he has been advising the government regarding advanced
communications networks, often involving public safety issues such as
lawfully authorized electronic surveillance and high-tech crime, including extensive work in child pornography on the Internet. Prior to joining the Department of
Justice, Gareth was a senior advisor in cryptography policy for Industry Canada. Gareth
received an M.A. in Communications from McGill University where he also undertook
doctoral studies. In the past he taught a variety of courses in Mass Communications at
Carleton University on such topics as post-industrial society and information security.
ELISABETH STAKSRUD
EC SAFT project
Elisabeth Staksrud works for the Norwegian Board of Film Classification
and is the coordinator of the SAFT project. SAFT is an awareness
project that works to teach children and their parents safer use of the
Internet. The project is supported by the EU Commission's Internet
Action Plan and has seven partners in five countries in Northern Europe.
Staksrud is Cand. Polit. in Media and Communication and has published several articles on
Internet regulation and freedom of expression. She is member of the Norwegian Self
Regulatory Internet Advisory Board.
FRED EISNER
Fred Eisner (50) has 30 years working experience in ICT. After studying
public policy / public administration he worked for several
government-and industrial organisations. He was Chief Technical
Officer for an ISP, followed by several years as CEO/president of NLIP
(Dutch Internet Service Providers Association) and boardmember of
EuroISPA. Semi-retired now, occasionally still active as consultant on
legal and technical Internet-issues for governments and industry (illegal content, security,
protection of critical infrastructures).
STEPHEN CARRICK DAVIES
Childnet International
Stephen took over as the Chief Executive of Childnet International in
October 2003, having been the deputy CEO since 1998. Over this time
Stephen has led the development of Childnet's award winning Education
and Awareness projects such as Kidsmart, Chatdanger and the NetDetectives online role play. Stephen has also been responsible for
expanding the international Childnet Awards and programmes which rewards young people
who are developing outstanding innovative Internet based projects which benefit other young
people. He has an honours degree from the University of London in Education and
Communication has 3 children and lives in South London.
DR. HERBERT BURKERT
University of St. Gallen (Switzerland)
Dr. Herbert Burkert is President of the Research Centre for Information
Law at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) where he teaches
public law, information and communication law. He is a Senior
Research Fellow of the Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication,
St.Augustin, Germany (currently on leave of absence).
Herbert Burkert is also an International Fellow at the Information Society Project, Yale Law
School, New Haven, USA and Visiting Professor at the University of Namur (Belgium). He
has studied Law, Political Science and History at the Universities of Cologne and Dublin; he
received his PhD from the University of Frankfurtam Main ("summa cum laude") and his
"venia legendi" from the University of St. Gallen. Herbert Burkert can be contacted at
hb@herbert-burkert.net
JIM REYNOLDS
Paedophile Consultant
Jim was a career detective with the Metropolitan Police, and was the
first Head of Scotland Yard's Paedophilia Unit. He is now a self
employed International Paedophilia Consultant. He acts as UK and
European representative for the USA's National Center for Missing
and Exploited Children. He is primarily engaged in the promotion of
child safety, particularly on the Internet.
He was responsible for the introduction of a Missing Childrens Website uk.missingkids.com
which enables Police Forces throughout the United Kingdom to circulate, globally and
instantaneously, details of missing children. In 1998 and 1999 he was a member of the
Bertelsmann Foundation's International Network of Experts on Internet Content
Self-Regulation. He is an Honorary Lecturer at the School of Psychology, Birmingham
University and at the Department of Psychology, University College, Cork. From 1999 until
June 2001 he was a member of an Internet Relay Chat Sub Group of the Home Office
Internet Crime Forum.
DETECTIVE SUPERINTENDENT MICHAEL DEATS
National High Tech Cyber Crime Unit (NHTCU)
HOLGER KIND
Detective Inspector, Bundeskriminalamt Wiesbaden, Germany
• 1990 - 1993 job training with the BKA Police Academy (Diploma
of Public Administration)
• 1993 - 1995 member of the Anti-Terrorism Department
(Analysis Unit)
• 1995 - today member of the Organised and General Crime
Department, Federal Central Child Pornography Unit, specialised in combating child
pornography on the Internet, Co-ordination of international Operations, Victim
Identification, Child Sex Tourism
HAMISH MCCULLOUGH
Assistant Director, Trafficking in Human Beings, Interpol
Mr. McCulloch is a Detective Inspector from the United Kingdom,
seconded to the Interpol General Secretariat, situated in Lyon,
France, by the National Crime Intelligence Service. He has over 30
years Police service, 23 years of which have been spent attached to
Criminal Investigation Departments involved in the investigation of all
types of crime, including drug trafficking, serious sexual assaults and homicide.
BRUNO MENS
Europol
Between 1971-1989 Mr.Mens worked for the Belgian Judicial Police, Serious Crime Squad
in Antwerp and in 1989 he joined the Judicial Police Headquarters (National Central
Bureau of Interpol) in Brussels. This work involved the centralisation of information
related to drugs, vice and trafficking in human beings cases. In 1992 he was the Belgian
representative at meetings/seminars related to the combating of offences against children.
Since 1993 he is a member of Interpol Specialist Group on Crimes against Children and
contributed to the Interpol Handbook on Good Practice for Specialist Officers Dealing with
Crimes against Children. In 1994 he was assigned to the Crimes against Persons Unit,
was the Brussels-representative on national and international working groups re missing
persons, vice, child pornography and child abuse and also taught on these subjects at
Police School, Brussels and School for Criminology and to magistrates.
In 1999 he became Head of Crimes against Persons Unit and in November 2000 he joined
Europol (Trafficking in Human Beings Group). He is now responsible for Europol activities
relating to sexual exploitation of minors and child pornography. He represents Europol at
meetings, seminars and projects and plays key role in the organisation of the training of
EU Member States’ law enforcement officers on combating child sexual exploitation on
the Internet.