Ahead of this year’s Parliament and Internet Conference (see here for my blog post on last year’s event), I have been thinking about multi-stakeholder cooperation in our space. A recent article in Cnet piqued my interest – US stakeholders have successfully launched a campaign as part of Cyber Security Awareness Month, called “Stop, Think, Connect”. They hope that this will become part of our consciousness, just as “stop, drop and roll” or “look, listen and cross the road” are engrained in many of us after years’ of repetition in primary school!
The campaign is a good example, I think, of how various agencies and stakeholders can work effectively together to create something of benefit for the wider community. I am sometimes a little frustrated at how insular we, as a community/an industry can be and how our many diverse starting points can somehow detract from our many common interests in our efforts to collaborate on a multi-constituency effort. I must be drinking the water too, as words like “multi constituency” don’t exactly scream “wider community” 
. Whoops.
The campaign’s reach is of particular interest here, I think. The coalition has managed to actually disperse the message out across the industry really effectively through leveraging networks and utilizing partnerships in arenas like Social Media and Telecoms!
Anyhow, please read the article here and do let me know if you have any thoughts on how it might inspire a similar project closer to home. I’ll be at the Parliament and Internet conference on Thursday, so would be great to hear from you before then!
