John Carr

John Carr writes about internet safety and security. He is one of the world’s leading authorities on children's and young people’s use of the internet and associated new technologies. Based in London John works extensively across the UK and in many parts of the world.

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 been a consultant to the Oak Foundation, Geneva.

At different times John has been engaged professionally to advise or assist several, major global high tech companies including Newscorp, Fox Interactive Media (owners of MySpace) where he was a Vice President and later a consultant, Yahoo UK & Ireland, Google, Phorm (UK), Vodafone and 02. John is a Director of NetID Me Ltd., a company which has developed an innovative online identity authentication product.

John regularly contributes to TV and radio programmes on the subject of online safety or children's and young people's use of the new technologies. He was also formerly the internet columnist for Prospect magazine and has written about the internet for The Observer, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, The Guardian and many other journals, both in the UK and overseas.

In June, 2010, John was honoured by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II with an OBE. In 2006, he was named by the New Statesman as one of 50 global “ModernHeroes”. In 2003 John was also named by New Media Age as one of the UK’s 50 most influential people in the new media industries.

John’s publications include “The Role of the Internet In the Commission of Crime”, “Out of Sight, Out of Mind - global responses to dealing with online child pornographic images” and, in June 2009, he jointly authored “The Digital Manifesto”.

Pro bono John is a Director of the charity Horsesmouth, an online mentoring social network and is a member of the Technical Advisory Committee of Breakthough Breast Cancer. Along the way John was also a Founding Trustee of DEMOS, one of the UK’s leading independent Think Tanks.

John is a key adviser on internet safety to the UK Government and is a member of the Executive Board of the UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS). He has also acted as a consultant to the Office of the Children's Commissioner for England. John is a member of the British Board of Film Classification's Advisory Panel on Children's Viewing.

John is a former member of Microsoft’s Policy Advisory Board for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He is on the Advisory Council of the Family Online Safety Institute in Washington DC, USA, and Beyond Borders, Canada.

John blogs at http://johnc1912.wordpress.com/