John Carr

John Carr is one of the world’s leading authorities on children’s and young people’s use of the internet and related new technologies. He has been consulted professionally by several of the world’s largest technology companies and currently is engaged as a Senior Expert Adviser to the International Telecommunications Union to assist the United Nations with their work on developing a safer internet for children and young people the world over.

Since 1999 John has been Secretary of the UK’s Children’s Charities’ Coalition on Internet Safety. In 2001 he was a founder member of the UK Government’s Internet Task Force on Child Protection and in 2008 he became a member of the Executive Board of the new post-Byron agency, UKCCIS.

John is an Advisory Board Member of INHOPE - the global association of national hotlines concerned with combating child abuse images on the internet, and is a member of the Advisory Boards of the Family Online Safety Institute in Washington DC and Beyond Borders, a federally-based NGO in Canada.. John is also an Executive Board member of the European NGO Alliance for Child Safety Online, with its headquarters in Copenhagen.

John’s publications include “A Parent’s Guide to the Internet”, “The Role of the Internet In the Commission of Crime”, “Out of Sight, Out of Mind”, a study of global responses to dealing with online child pornographic images and, in June 2009, of “The Digital Manifesto”, an overview of online child safety policy, published by CHIS. Along the way John was also a Founding Trustee of DEMOS, one of the UK’s leading independent Think Tanks.