Second Meeting of the Council Working
Group on Child Online Protection (CWG-CP)
Geneva, 11 June 2010
Document: WG-CP/2/2
Original: English only
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ARAB REPUBLIC OF EGYPT, MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS AND
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Egypt’s Feedback Concerning the ITU’s Draft
“Child Online Protection
Statistical Framework and Indicators”.
1. Introduction
Reference is made to the recommendations of the ITU Council Working Group on Child
Online Protection (CWG- CP) in its first meeting held on the 17th and 18th of March
2010 “that ITU, based on its experience as a lead agency in the area of ICT measurement,
should engage in work to establish a framework for the statistical measurement of COP,
including the development of a list of indicators that could be collected at the national
and/or international levels. The indicators, which should include measures of usage
patterns as well as the type of threats, will help countries to evaluate the impact of their
COP programmes. In carrying out this work, ITU should collaborate closely with the
relevant international organizations and stakeholders” (Document WG-CP/1/16).
And to the draft “Child Online Protection Statistical Framework and Indicators”,
‘considering the measurement aspects of child online protection, with the ultimate aim of
reliably measuring the problem and monitoring the solutions’ as prepared by Sheridan
Roberts, consultant to the Market Information and Statistics Division (STAT) of ITU
Telecommunication Development Bureau, under the supervision of Susan Teltscher.
Egypt commends the serious and continuous efforts done by the ITU in the area of setting
up indicators and statistical framework for child on line safety.
Accordingly, and in the framework of the ITU Council Working Group on Child Online
Protection, agenda item 4 (Documents WG-CP-2/01), Egypt wishes to share with the
ITU Members, ongoing activities in Egypt with respect to setting indicators concerning
child online safety, in order to contribute to the global effort and help ITU to assist
Member States to protect children online and measure progress done in this respect.
2. Main Points of Egypt’s Intervention:
The planned intervention of the Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information
Technology at the second ITU WG- CP will cover the following points:
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A. National efforts to discuss indicators for Child on line Safety.
B. Sharing questionnaires designed on the local level.
C. Preliminary results of the pilot conducted in Egypt based on the suggested ITU’s
report indicators.
D. Suggested additional indicators to the ITU’s draft “Child Online Protection Statistical
Framework and Indicators”, based on the local conditions of an emerging knowledge
society.
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