Supporting the global efforts in strengthening the safety, security and resilience of Cyberspace, the Commonwealth Cybersecurity Forum 2013, organised by the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation. The ceremonial opening examined how Cyberspace could be governed and utilised in a manner to foster freedom and entrepreneurship, while protecting individuals, property and the state, leading to socio-economic development. Speakers of this session, Mr Mario Maniewicz, Chief, Department of Infrastructure, Enabling Environment and E-Applications, ITU; Mr David Pollington, Director, International Security Relations, Microsoft; Mr Alexander Seger, Secretary, Cybercrime Convention Committee, Council of Europe; Mr Nigel Hickson, Vice President, Europe, ICANN and Mr Pierre Dandjinou, Vice President, Africa, ICANN, added their perspectives on various approaches to Cybergovernance, with general agreement on the role Cyberspace could play to facilitate development equitably and fairly across the world. Hosted by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of Cameroon together with the Telecommunications Regulatory Board of Cameroon and backed by partners and industry supporters including ICANN, Council of Europe, Microsoft, MTN Cameroon, AFRINIC and Internet Watch Foundation, the Commonwealth Cybersecurity Forum 2013 seeks to broaden stakeholder dialogue to facilitate practical action in Cybergovernance and Cybersecurity, some of which will be reflected in the CTO’s own work programmes under its Cybersecurity agenda.

1. Copyright © 2012 Internet Watch Foundation. All Rights Reserved
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Susie Hargreaves, CEO
CTO Cybersecurity Forum – Cameroon, April 2013

2. Who we are
IWF is the UK Hotline for reporting (www.iwf.org.uk)
Child sexual abuse content hosted anywhere in the world
Criminally obscene adult content hosted in the UK
Non-photographic child sexual abuse images hosted in the UK
IWF is member of INHOPE (www.inhope.org)
The UK Safer Internet Centre (www.saferinternet.org.uk)
Childnet International
South West Grid for Learning
Internet Watch Foundation (IWF)
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3. About online child sexual abuse
content
A child is anyone under the age of 18 – UN Declaration on the
Rights of a Child
Child sexual abuse covers children under age of 18 regardless of
age of consent
Child Sexual Abuse is not consensual
Every image of Child Sexual Abuse is a crime scene
It is NOT the same as adult pornography
Rights – no rights to view criminal content, only rights concerend –
rights of the child.
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4. Our work - 2012
The IWF assisted with the removal of 9,696 URLs
child sexual abuse hosted worldwide (only 35 notices
issued in UK)
81% child victims appeared to be 10 years old or
younger
4% under 2 years old
53% depicted activity between adults and children
including rape and sexual torture
75% were girls (7,272 images and videos)
27% commercial/73% free
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5. What we have achieved
Over the past 16 years:
Over 390,000 web pages assessed in 16 years
100,000 URLs removed for containing criminal content
Less than 1% of child sexual abuse content is hosted in the UK
since 2003, down from 18% in 1996
Child sexual abuse content is removed in the UK typically within
60 minutes
Time taken to remove child sexual abuse content hosted outside
the UK halved to 10 days in 2011.
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6. Achievements to date
By sharing intelligence with police we aided the
identification and rescue of 12 children in the
past two years
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7. Fundamental Rights – Child Protection
It is estimated that more than one million unique
images of children subjected to sexual abuse and
exploitation are currently online . According to
UNODC 50,000 new child abuse images are added
each year.
Every time an image is viewed, the child is re-
victimised, every image removed protects the child
Victim identification – ability to move quickly helps
to rescue children
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8. Sexting Research – self generated
content
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40 hours of analyst time
Young people assessed 13-20
12,224 self generated images found
88% uploaded onto parasite paedophilic
websites
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9. Keeping girls and young women safe
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Education, Education, Education - online behaviour –
home, school, peers, Safer Internet Day
‘Do not do anything online that you would not do offline’
Technical solutions:
Parental controls
Age verification
Filtering
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10. “The Internet Watch Foundation has again
done an outstanding job in tackling images of
child sexual abuse online.
“The organisation plays a key role in
international efforts to end this criminality,
protecting children and continuing to block
access to child sexual abuse images wherever
they are based.
“As a direct result of the Internet Watch
Foundation’s work, three children were
rescued from their abusers last year.”
What we have achieved
Prime Minister
David Cameron
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11. Thank you for listening

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