New industry Trustee elected to IWF Board
19 May 2010
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) is delighted to welcome Jonny Shipp, Head of Strategy & Implementation for Digital Confidence at Telefónica Europe, as an industry member of its Board of Trustees. A long-standing member of the IWF Funding Council Jonny was elected by IWF’s member companies to represent their views on the Board. Jonny replaces Hamish MacLeod of the Mobile Broadband Group who served as a Trustee for six years.
As a self-regulatory body, the IWF relies upon the support of its industry members and is governed by a Board of ten Trustees, consisting of an Independent Chair, six independent Trustees and three industry Trustees. The Board monitor, review and direct the IWF’s remit, strategy, policy and budget to enable the organisation to achieve its objectives.
Eve Salomon, IWF Chair said: “I am very pleased to welcome Jonny to our Board and look forward to working with him in the future. As a self-regulatory organisation it is vital that the industry’s expertise is reflected on our Board and that we work together to ensure we remain responsive and robust.”
Jonny Shipp said: “I am proud to have been elected as an Industry Trustee to the IWF Board and look forward to contributing to the strategic direction of such an important organisation in the wider fight against online criminality. I am optimistic that together the online sector can help to make the internet a safer environment for everyone; in the UK and beyond.”
The IWF is an independent body, funded by the EU and the wider online industry including internet service providers, mobile operators and manufacturers, content service providers, filtering companies, search providers, trade associations and the financial sector. IWF is the UK internet Hotline and works to minimise the availability of potentially criminal internet content, specifically, images of child sexual abuse hosted anywhere in the world and criminally obscene adult content, incitement to racial hatred content and non-photographic child sexual abuse images hosted in the UK.
Jonny is an expert in content standards and online child safety, and has led wide-ranging strategic, technical and communications projects and partnerships across Europe to secure customer trust and confidence in digital products and services. As well as representing O2 on the IWF’s Board and Funding Council he contributes to UKCCIS and GSMA initiatives including the Mobile Alliance Against Child Sexual Abuse Content. Educated at Sussex and Middlesex Universities, Jonny completed undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Social Anthropology and in Applied Informatics. He has worked in the internet and digital communications industry for 15 years and has an MBA from Henley Business School.
Jonny is an expert in content standards and online child safety, and has led wide-ranging strategic, technical and communications projects and partnerships across Europe to secure customer trust and confidence in digital products and services. As well as representing O2 on the IWF’s Board and Funding Council he contributes to UKCCIS and GSMA initiatives including the Mobile Alliance Against Child Sexual Abuse Content. Educated at Sussex and Middlesex Universities, Jonny completed undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Social Anthropology and in Applied Informatics. He has worked in the internet and digital communications industry for 15 years and has an MBA from Henley Business School.
Full biographies of all IWF Trustees and details of IWF governance arrangements are available here: http://www.iwf.org.uk/corporate/page.38.htm.
