Author Archives: icraorg

Fourth Roundtable event a success

Fourth Roundtable event a success From left to right: Rudi Vansick (ISOC Belgium), Adam Thierer (PFF), Stephen Balkam (ICRA), Viviane Reding and Viviane Hoffman (EC), Kyle Kim (Microsoft), Irek Parafjanczuk (NASK) ICRA’s latest roundtable event, co-hosted by the Progress and Freedom Foundation, has been another success for the organization. “Mission Impossible? Protecting children and free […]

Labelled with ICRA

The Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA) is an international, non-profit organization of internet leaders working to develop a safer internet. ICRA has long believed that self-regulation leads to the best balance between the free flow of digital content and protecting children from potentially harmful material. The centrepiece of the organization is the descriptive vocabulary, often […]

Los mejores consejos para que los nios estn seguros en lnea

Internet es un lugar estupendo donde se puede charlar con gente de todo el mundo, hacer nuevos amigos, informarse sobre cualquier tema concebible y pasarlo en grande. Sin embargo, tenga cuidado, ya que es posible que su seguridad se viera amenazada si no toma algunas precauciones elementales… Nunca revele sus datos personales (nombre, dirección). De […]

Recreational Software Advisory Council (RSACi)

RSAC no longer exists. In 1999 it was “folded into” ICRA (formerly the Internet Content Rating Association), which is part of the Family Online Safety Institute. The original aims of RSAC, to protect children from potentially harmful content while preserving free speech on the internet, continue to provide the cornerstone for the Institute’s work, backed […]

ICRAchecked Adds the Human Touch to Increase Internet Safety

This is the UK version of this press release. a US version is also available. Brighton, 30 November 2006. Today the Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA) stepped up its campaign to help make the Internet a safer place for children and families, with the launch of ICRAchecked, the world’s first independent validation service for websites […]

W3C Call for Review: Rule Interchange Format Working Group Charter

ICRA supports the establishment of a framework in which data such as our descriptive labels for websites and similar metadata, such as trustmarks, can be processed. The second use case in the proposed charter (in which the prescription of one drug contradicts the prescription of another) can easily map to the ICRA model for child […]