The government of the United Kingdom has plans to hold an international summit on online gambling this year. To goal of the summit will be to develop a set of international standards that will help the development of the business, but will protect customers at the same time.
Britain was among the first countries that legalized online gambling. Now it seeks to demonstrate to the rest of the world that with modern technologies online gambling is not anything to be afraid of.
The summit is supposed to bring together representative of governments, regulatory agencies and legitimate gambling operators to ensure the protection of consumers and the reputability of the market, which can be achieved by controlling the market, avoiding any presence of organized crime, ensuring that advertisement is legal, honest and decent and that only persons of legal age can use the gambling services.