Brian O’Neill is director or Research, Enterprise & Innovation Services at the Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland. Brian’s research areas include media policy and digital technologies, media and information literacy, e-safety and information society policy for children. He has an international profile as a researcher on young people’s use of new media and the internet. He has conducted research for the European Commission, UNICEF and the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland. He leads the EU Kids Online network in Ireland, and is responsible for its policy works package. He is a member of Ireland’s Internet Safety Advisory Committee. Brian also chaired the Irish government’s task force on Internet Content Governance, reporting to the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources. In 2014 he undertook an independent assessment of internet safety for 16 companies represented in the ICT Coalition.