Jutta Croll M. A., is Managing Director of Stiftung Digitale Chancen/Digital Opportunities Foundation. The Digital Opportunities Foundation is a German NGO working on overcoming the Digital Divide, promoting E-Inclusion and providing programs and tools to promote Digital Literacy for underserved groups. The foundation was co-ordinator of the Youth Protection Roundtable within the Safer Internet Programme of the European Commission from 2006-2009. Since 2010 the foundation is partner in the SIP Benchmark II consortium carrying out on behalf of the European Commission a bi-annual evaluation of effectiveness and usability of parental control tools for the online protection of children. Jutta Croll has worked as a researcher in several projects concerning the use of media and digital literacy. She holds a university degree in political science, media science and German literature and is member of several steering groups of European and national projects in the field of e‑Inclusion and Digital Literacy. As an expert for youth protection and digital literacy she works in close co-operation with UNESCO, the European Commission and the Council of Europe.

Recent publication: Croll, Jutta / Kunze, Katharina: Online Youth Protection: Joint Efforts Are Needed. In: High-Tech Tots – Childhood in a Digital World, Berson/Berson (eds.): Sage 2009 http://infoagepub.com/series/Research-in-Global-Child-Advocacy

Education and professional experience:

- 1990 - University diploma Magistra Artium

- 1985-1990 - Studies of German Literature, Politics and Media Science at the University of Göttingen, Germany. Main focus on interdisciplinary topics such as Political Literature after the Second World War and Media Politics.

- 1975-1984 - Librarian at the Murhardsche and Landesbibliothek and University Library, Kassel

Additional jobs: Scientific research studies for UNESCO, author of several articles on telecommunications and new media for Brockhaus Encyclop.

ABSTRACT

29 September, Wednesday, 14.30 – 16.30

Parallel session: Positive online content for children

Presentation title: SIP Bench II - benchmarking of parental control tools for the online protection of children

The SIP Benchmark is a study carried out by INNOVA Europe, Brussels, Cybion, Rome and Stiftung Digitale Chancen, Berlin on behalf of the European Commission within the Safer Internet Program. An evaluation of the effectiveness and usability of parental control tools for the online protection of children will be done by the consortium partners bi-annually.

Within each testing cycle 30 products are tested against the following assessment criteria: effectiveness, performance, usability, configurability, transparency, security (resistance to hacking and other security issues), suitability, customisation for European users and new forms of digital content (e.g. web 2.0 user generated content and social networking web sites).

As result of ranking list will be produced at the end of each testing cycle to help end-users in the decision making process; in addition the results will be stored in a database for end-users needs; and a study report will be produced at the end of each testing cycle.

A Steering Board with members from Poland, Finland, France, Germany, Italy and Latvia accompanies the project.

The presentation of SIP Benchmark II at the Warszawa conference will comprise the very first results of the first testing cycle and will give an outlook how parents and other adults responsible for minors can make use of the projects findings.