On 28 September 2023, representatives of hotlines, law enforcement agencies, service providers and non-governmental organisations met in Amsterdam to discuss how cooperation and the exchange of information on combating sexual violence against children can be further improved online. INHOPE, an international network of hotlines to combat illegal content on the internet, had invited to the joint exchange and thus created a framework to discuss existing challenges, uncertainties and obstacles of the individual actors and in their cooperation. Through the exchange of experiences and perspectives, as well as through presentations of successful practices, an understanding of the respective work processes and competencies was created, and ways were shown of how the common goal can be approached.
During the exchange, the CPORT project of INHOPE was presented. In this project, various actors are working together to make the ICCAM database on reported material of sexual violence against children accessible to partners outside the hotline network. Through CPORT, INTERPOL and national law enforcement agencies will be able to access this data and use it for their work. Likewise, the analysts of the hotlines should be able to use the existing ICSE and IWOL databases at INTERPOL. The aim is that through better networking and data processing, more time will be available for researching and prosecuting sexual violence against children online.