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APRIL 2025

Tech Coalition Stakeholder Briefing – Singapore

On April 3, our CEO Shane Britten joined key industry leaders – child safety experts, policy makers, law enforcement officials and industry representatives from 16 countries – for the Tech Coalition’s 2025 APAC Briefing, Protecting Children in the Digital World: Industry Strategies and Innovations.

The Tech Coalition, an alliance of technology companies of varying sizes and sectors, represents a powerful core of expertise working together to drive critical advances in technology and the adoption of best practices to facilitate the global tech industry’s fight against the online sexual abuse and exploitation of children. A core objective is to help all its members better prevent, detect, report, and remove online child sexual abuse content.

Hosted by Amazon at their Singapore office, this APAC Briefing focused on the tools, strategies, and innovations needed to combat online child sexual exploitation and abuse and highlighted critical regional trends specific to the region, including cross-border collaboration and risks associated with generative AI.

APAC GCFFC Conference – Hong Kong

Sponsored by the HK Monetary Authority and supported by Crime Stoppers International, the APAC Chapter of the Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime held its second Asia-Pacific event in Hong Kong on April 1.

This by-invitation Conference had the theme Fighting Financial Crime in a More Complex World and was headlined by FATF President, Claire Lo. Notably, Ms Lo was FATF President in 2001 during 9/11 and the first female FATF President and she spoke of her time as President and where the world is now.

Our CEO Shane Britten sat on the moderated panel session, How to improve effectiveness – A conversation between experts, that sparked discussion on re-imagining the approach to enhancing effectiveness.

The discussion emphasized the necessity to transition from reactive strategies, acknowledge the evolving criminal landscape and the increasing intersection of various crime types, and understand the essential need for cooperation. The panel also highlighted that criminals, especially terrorists, continuously adapt, making previous strategies less effective.

Women Changing the World – London

The Women Changing the World Awards recognize, acknowledge and celebrate women who are making a positive contribution to changing the world in big and small ways – to women who are visionaries and leaders inspiring change, taking action and making a lasting impact.

Our Deputy CEO, Hayley van Loon, was a finalist in not one but two categories – the Leadership Award for Global Impact that recognizes exceptional women trailblazers in global initiatives; and the People’s Choice Global Award for Non-Profit & Social Enterprise that identifies the most popular global impact business or organization making a difference.

Hayley’s contribution to Crime Stoppers International and her dedication to helping our organization deliver on its mission is beyond commendable. So, we couldn’t be more delighted that her unwavering commitment to shaping a brighter world was internationally recognized and applauded with her receiving two gongs – Silver for the Leadership Award for Global Impact, and Bronze for the People’s Choice Global Award – at the WCW Awards ceremony in London earlier this month.

Congratulations, Hayley!

MARCH 2025

Airbnb Trust & Safety Advisory Coalition – San Francisco

As a member of the Airbnb TSAC, CEO Shane Britten is our representative on this group, and he recently traveled to San Francisco to attend its quarterly meeting. As always, it was a terrific opportunity to review and contribute to Airbnb’s strategic planning linked to the organization’s Trust & Safety objectives, policies and practices while drawing on the experience and expertise of many other key stakeholders and subject matter experts in this space.

Europe’s premier Trust & Safety Summit – UK

This annual event for leaders within policy, moderation, engineering, enforcement and legal was held in London on 25 & 26 March and our Deputy CEO, Hayley van Loon, was proud to attend and be part of the conversation, connecting with industry leaders and innovators working to make digital spaces safer for everyone.

An impressive agenda and even more impressive presenter line-up delivered across three broad streams – policy, regulatory compliance and preparedness, and enforcement operations.

Crime Stoppers International looks forward to following up on the many strategic connections made over the course of this two-day Summit and, anyone who missed the opportunity to speak one-on-one with Hayley, can reach out here.

WEF Global Coalition for Digital Safety – report released

The WEF Coalition for Digital Safety used the UK Trust & Safety Summit to launch its latest report, The Intervention Journey: A Roadmap to Effective Digital Safety Measures, that maps the journey of digital safety interventions, using case studies to illustrate the key stages and provide examples of various intervention types.

Congratulations to our Deputy CEO Hayley van Loon, who was not only a co-author but also the single largest contributor to the report!

With the increasing digitization of society seeing online harms – such as child sexual exploitation, scams, privacy violations and disinformation – growing in both complexity and volume, and with many organizations struggling to implement interventions because of limited resources, regulatory complexity and rapidly evolving threats, which puts them at risk of legal and reputational consequences, the report seeks to address this deficit and proposes a detailed plan for implementing digital safety interventions.

New WEF working group – AI in Content Moderation

Timed to immediately follow the UK Trust & Safety Summit and take advantage of the fact that many of the Coalition’s members were in London to attend the Summit, the WEF Global Coalition for Digital Safety met on March 27.

Attendees, including our Deputy CEO Hayley van Loon, were briefed more fully on Workstream #2’s report, The Intervention Journey: A Roadmap to Effective Digital Safety Measures, and were provided updates on Workstream #4’s report, Media Information Literacy for Tackling Disinformation.

Discussions also took place on new workstream priorities, including the establishment of a new Workstream, Transparent and Accountable AI in Content Moderation, that aims to embed digital safety principles into AI governance by mapping best practices, addressing key challenges and ensuring human rights remain central to AI-driving content moderation.

As a valued member of the Coalition, Hayley has been invited to represent Crime Stoppers International on this new working group.

HAROD and CSI partner

As we continue to grow our strategic network, Crime Stoppers International is thrilled to announce that HAROD Associates is now a key supporter of our organization.

HAROD is a globally trusted provider of bespoke investigative services, specializing in the delivery of cutting-edge solutions tailored to individual clients’ requirements across a range of industries, including critical infrastructure, government, law enforcement, charities and the private sector. HAROD also boasts a range of proprietary technologies that are leading-edge and have been designed by investigators for investigators.

We are incredibly grateful to HAROD for their direct support of Crime Stoppers International and look forward to collaborating to strengthen our efforts to create safer communities worldwide.