In association with the Safer Internet Forum 2011, the European Commission’s Safer Internet Programme commissioned an external expert - Pia Lang - to write this report on the discussions taking place during the conference and place the debates into a wider context. For a full picture of the discussions, the report should be read in conjunction with the minutes of the parallel sessions.1 Apart from taking part in some of the parallel sessions and plenaries in the Safer Internet Forum itself, the rapporteur conducted some desk research in order to being able to reflect at the wider context of the Forum discussions.