25th May 2003
ICRA has launched a new membership category for webmasters, design companies and other organizations who support ICRA’s self-labelling approach to child protection and freedom of speech. ICRA has long enjoyed the backing of leading internet industry players and external bodies such as the European Union’s Internet Action Plan, but the new scheme will enable this support base to grow substantially.
Associate Membership allows companies and individuals to use a special ICRA logo in their publicity material and to be recognized on ICRA’s high-traffic website among other benefits. The first three organizations to join were IVEW in Germany, OurLittleNet in the USA and Allopass in France.
James Shaw of OurLittleNet said: “I am very grateful to ICRA for providing a professionally-run standards body to coordinate web site content ratings. With ICRA’s help families can finally surf the internet safely. I am very proud to be the first ICRA Associate member. ICRA complements the OurLittleNet Absolutely Safetm system perfectly.”
“We are happy to support the ICRA system with our association and hope to help it to become a widely used standard for youth protection in Germany,” added Torsten Wenzel of IVEW.
To go to the Associate Membership page, please click here.