Fair Play Podcast

The Internet Playground:
How Vodafone Helps Kids Play Safe

Supported by the Lego Group

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The Internet Playground: How Vodafone Helps Kids Play Safe

What happens when the internet — built by adults — becomes the playground for children? This is the question we asked to Joakim Reiter, Chief External and Corporate Affairs Officer at Vodafone. In an age of what Reiter calls “data obesity,” it’s becoming harder for parents, caregivers, and adults who aren’t “digital-first” to understand what digital wellbeing really means — let alone protect children online.

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Joakim Reiter

Chief External and Corporate Affairs Officer, Vodafone

One of the biggest challenge, in all companies in the sector, is: How to offer access to technology, in a way that creates the guardrails for children up front? TO THE EPISODE

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Joakim Reiter

Chief External and Corporate Affairs Officer

Vodafone

Joakim Reiter is Vodafone’s Chief External and Corporate Affairs Officer, responsible for public relations and corporate affairs, including policy and regulation, communications, security, sustainability and charitable activities. Before joining Vodafone in April 2017, Joakim was the Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Prior to that, he spent more than 15 years in the foreign service of Sweden, including as Deputy Director-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador to the World Trade Organization and at the Permanent Representation to the European Union. Joakim also served as an EU negotiator with DG TRADE at the European Commission.

Alice Ramsay

Moderator

Alice Ramsay is a moderator, interviewer and speaker on a mission to help 1 billion people have more fun. From a career as an international lawyer to founding her own communications agency, she has lived her life connecting with the power of fun. She is inspired by children daily (including her own child!) and is passionate about ensuring children are given the best start in life. Alice is honoured to host GCF’s latest series.

COMPANIES MUST PLAY FAIR

About the podcast

Fair Play is a podcast from Global Child Forum where we bring together voices of leaders and changemakers to explore how children’s rights can move from the margins to the heart of corporate agendas. Because when companies play fair, children win, and so does the world.

This mini-series is part of our LEGO-supported project on children’s rights and corporate sustainability reporting, developed in collaboration with the LEGO Group.

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