Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI)  interviews
Channel: Ministry Of Transport - MOT
Date: 2012-10-04

ictQATAR and Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) partnered to host a two-day conference "Promoting Online Safety and Cyber Ethics in the Middle East," which was held March 6-7 in Doha looking at key online safety issues affecting the Middle East region and discussing broader global issues.

Conference highlights included discussions about the expansion of mobile phone and social media usage, a look at the role of ICT in schools and the importance of cyber ethics.



David Miles
EMEA Director | Family Online Safety Institute
David works with a growing FOSI membership throughout the European, Middle East and African region, David also oversees the organizations web site and wider online strategy.David is based in the UK and is a member of the UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS), Norton's Family Safety Advisory Council, as well as an active participant in wider European Commission initiatives.
Justin Weiss
Senior Director, International Privacy & Policy | Yahoo! 
Justin B. Weiss serves as Senior Director for International Privacy and Policy at Yahoo!, focusing on online privacy and policy matters for the company's many global properties, with specific emphasis on online advertising privacy and consumer-facing privacy communications and tools adapted to diverse cultural and legal contexts.
Luc Delany
European Policy Manager | Facebook
Luc is European Policy Manager at Facebook, where he is heavily involved in Child Online Safety and in developing self-regulatory initiatives such as the European Safer Social Networking principles, the UK Council on Children and Internet Safety. Having worked in public policy across Europe for a number of years, Luc has been involved in many aspects of Internet regulation throughout his career including copyright, competition, liability, civil liberties, safety and security.
Ammar Mohammed

Social Media Specialist | AlJazeera

Ammar Mohammed is a certified trainer in social media and he has offered training to more than 3000 people in many courses about social media. His twitter account was considered among the most influential in Qatar during 2011. He also offers several consulting services to social media institutions in Qatar and other countries.

Larry Magid
Co-director | ConnectSafely.org
Larry Magid is a technology journalist and an Internet safety advocate. He serves as on-air technology analyst for CBS News, is co-director of ConnectSafely.org and founder of SafeKids.com and SafeTeens.com.He also writes columns that appear on CNET News, CBSNews.com, Huffington Post and the San Jose Mercury News.
Khalifa Saleh Haroon

Head of Interactive & Innovation, Vodafone Qatar | Founder, iLoveQatar
Khalifa Saleh Haroon is a law graduate turned Investment banker turned online specialist. He is currently with Vodafone Qatar as Head of Interactive & Innovation, recently shifting over from Head of Online and his focus in Social Media. He is also the founder of H.U.G. and winner of Entrepreneur of the Year for 2011. Well known for creating iLoveQatar (ILQ), also winner of ictQatar's Most Promising Start Up award, and turning the website into a brand that people trust. He helps to support start-ups and promotes the importance of deep partnerships between companies.
Kim Sanchez
Director of Privacy and Online Safety, Trustworthy Computing Group | Microsoft
Kim is responsible for strategic communications to worldwide consumer and government audiences on Microsoft's work in computer privacy, security and online safety.
Prior to this role, Kim was a Program Manager in Developer and Platform Evangelism (D&PE), where she worked with Fortune 500 customers to develop and talk about business solutions built on Microsoft's next generation products.

John Carr
CHIS & Internet Consultant
John Carr is one of the world's leading authorities on children's and young people's use of the internet and associated new technologies. John has been a Senior Expert Adviser to the United Nations (International Telecommunication Union), an Expert Adviser to the European Union, the European Network and Information Security Agency, and consultant to the Oak Foundation, Geneva.