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The Wild West or the mild west?
The Wild West or the mild west? Internet experts work
through the challenges of the digital frontier
Wellington, 26 November 2012
The Minister for Communications and
Information Technology, Hon Amy Adams, today launched
Netsafe’s 2012 'Our community: Our challenge' conference.
Over 100 delegates from the digital safety and security
community gathered to develop solutions for a range of
challenges in the digital environment.
They have
heard industry representatives from Facebook, Google,
Microsoft, Sophos, and the NZ Game Developers Association
share their views on the future trends that will impact the
community as well as preeminent Australian psychologist
Michael Carr-Gregg, Privacy Commissioner Marie Shroff and
David Rutherford, Chief Human Rights Commissioner.
By
far the highlight was the light hearted debate involving a
panel of experts discussing the moot, ‘The Internet is
still the Wild West’. Michael Carr-Greg compared the
internet to the19th century American frontier with our young
people battling the unknown in ‘Cyberia’ and their
parents playing it safe in the mother country watching from
a distance.
Stephen Knightly, Chair of the New Zealand
Game Developers Association, took the opposing view and
suggested the internet was in fact regulated by capitalism
and that ‘draw partner’ had been replaced with the Draw
Something app on your iPhone.
“There’s been plenty
of discussion and interest from presenters and attendees
about how we can work together to address the challenges
presented in the online environment”, said Martin Cocker,
NetSafe Executive Director. “The great thing about day one
of the conference is the enthusiasm from the different
representatives to work together to help solve the
challenges faced by the community.”
Tomorrow
conference participants will hear from international expert
and keynote speaker Stephen Balkam, CEO of the Washington,
DC based Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) as well as
the Hon Judith Collins, Minister of Justice and experts from
across the ditch.
You can follow live coverage on
Twitter using the hashtag #netsafe2012. Outcomes from the
conference will be published online.
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