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MercurysBall2 ago

Cyberbullying task force : Tessy Ojo, C.E.O., Diana Award

https://about[dot]me/tessyojo

Prior to joining the Diana Award, Tessy worked in the corporate sector for over 10 years and helped to implement the robust operational planning systems for IBM UK, Borders UK and more. Tessy also sits on the governing board of a chain of academies in London.

https://www.stagecoachgroup.com/media/news-releases/2017/2017-08-23.aspx

Scottish transport company Stagecoach has teamed up with The Diana Award charity to launch the UK’s first and only #BeNiceBus. The Diana Award runs the leading Anti-Bullying Campaign in the UK and Ireland giving young people the skills, confidence and training to tackle all forms of bullying as Anti-Bullying Ambassadors.

Yeah, we have a voat post for Stagecoach too.. unfinished but I'll drop it here anyway..

Qinetiq and C2c

..Stagecoach, which owns 49% of Virgin Trains, had disagreed with the government about how to fill a huge deficit in the Railways Pension Scheme, which covers railway workers. ..

Sir Brian Souter (born 5 May 1954) is a Scottish billionaire businessman. With his sister, Ann Gloag, he founded the Stagecoach Group of bus and rail operators. He also founded the bus and coach operator Megabus, the train operating company South West Trains, his investments company Souter Holdings Ltd and the Souter Charitable Trust.

MercurysBall2 ago

Another name from task force: Tim Levene, - Digital Advisor, The Royal Foundation

https://www.weforum.org/people/tim-levene

Studied Russian, University of Manchester. Formerly with Bain & Company, Moscow, Boston, Sydney and London. 1999, co-founder of Crussh Juice Bars. One of the founding team at Flutter.com, which merged with Betfair.com in 2001 and became one of the most high-profile internet businesses in Europe. Founder and Managing Partner, Augmentum Capital, a Fintech venture capital fund that backs disruptive businesses in the European fintech space. Adviser on digital strategy, Royal Foundation of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry.

Nuff said.

MercurysBall2 ago

The Baroness Kidron, O.B.E., Founder, 5Rights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeban_Kidron

Kidron is the Founder and Chair of 5Rights Foundation, an organisation she established in 2013 to promote the rights of children online. At the launch she described it as a civil society initiative that aims to make the digital world a more transparent and empowering place for children and young people.[21] 5Rights signatories include Unicef, the NSPCC and Barclays bank.[22] Starting out as the iRights campaign, in 2018 it was formally registered as a charity formally constituted as The 5Rights Foundation.

5 Rights Foundation states that its mission is to build the digital world children and young people deserve[23]. It develops policy, regulation and innovative approaches to digital issues on behalf of children and young people, working with an interdisciplinary network of experts. 5Rights has pioneered a range of international policies and programmes, such as; developing Child Online Protection Policy for the Government of Rwanda[24]; contributing to the creation of a General Comment (codicil) on the digital world[25], to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)[26]; and working in partnership with IEEE Standards to create Universal Standards for Children and for Digital Services and Products.

Kidron is also a member of the UNESCO Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development, a UN commission set up to support the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals[27][28];, a member of the Global Council for Extended Intelligence[29]; a member of the UNICEF Artificial Intelligence and Child Rights policy guidance group[30]; and sat on the WeProtect Child Dignity Alliance Technical Working Group[