Commission promotes safer use of the Internet

The European Commission has issued a call for proposals for projects to demonstrate filtering software and services in the framework of the action plan on promoting safer use of the Internet. The measures will focus on demonstrating the potential and the limitations of filter...

The European Commission has issued a call for proposals for projects to demonstrate filtering software and services in the framework of the action plan on promoting safer use of the Internet.

The measures will focus on demonstrating the potential and the limitations of filtering and rating systems in a real world environment, with the objective of encouraging establishment of systems suitable for European use and familiarising users with their use.

This call is intended in particular to encourage proposals for 'close-to-market' solutions. Emphasis will be placed on usefulness and practicality in 'real-world' situations involving a large cross-section of typical users.

Examples of areas which could form part of a project are:
- 'walled gardens' - services offering limited access to content selected as being particularly suitable for a defined age group;
- adaptation of existing software to cover new languages;
- 'family friendly' searching;
- third-party supply of templates and lists for use in combination with filtering options built into browsers from commercial or non-commercial, values-oriented organisations;
- benchmarking of filtering software and services (evaluation of the effectiveness of different filtering/blocking tools in the European context).For further information, please contact:

European Commission
Directorate-General for the Information Society
EUFO 1260
L-2920 Luxembourg
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