G7 Technology Ministers signed a joint declaration today under UK Chairmanship that agreed a set of Internet Safety Principles for G7 action. This is a significant step towards solid multilateral work as democracies together tackle online safety within a human rights framework /1

Fostering Human Rights Online form the first G7 Internet Safety Principle /2

Important emphasis on working with victims of online harm in the Second G7 Internet Safety Principle - a multi-stakeholder approach. /3

Focus on 'polluter pays' approach in the third G7 Internet Safety Principle which also takes the Carnegie/UK/EU approach to safer systems and processes as a route to safer online environment. Companies have to own the problem in the online environment they create. /4

Transparency and Accountability form the Fourth G7 Internet Safety Principle. Some 'Operational Principles' follow /5

Safety tech is a vital enabler of action on online harms and the G7 have agreed an operational principle to work together on this. /6

Principle 5 is the G7 asking companies to prioritise protection of children using their services. /7

G7 Internet Safety Principle 7 (got my numbers wrong) is media literacy, much exhorted but continually under invested in. Let's see if that changes /8

G7 Internet Safety Principle 8 is a reminder to the G7 themselves to involve young people more in policy making. /9

The outputs from the G7 Digital Ministers can be found at link. All credit to @OliverDowden the Chair and the Sherpa Teams who have worked so hard in steering this through. A significant step for democracies in rights based governance of the internet. /10 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/g7-digital-and-technology-ministerial-declaration

Have been delighted @CarnegieUKTrust to support this G7 process in a small way with our colleagues at @gmfus @resetdottech @ISDglobal Next, a major UK tech multilateral event in the Autumn hopefully IRL in London. /11