Category Archives: Blog

Family Online Safety Institute Associate Members

FOSI’s Associate Membership exists to allow smaller companies and individuals to support FOSI’s twin aims of: protecting children from potentially harmful material; and, protecting free speech on the internet. FOSI is proud to count many companies and individuals as Associate Members. They have all made a commitment to label websites they create and maintain, and […]

About the Family Online Safety Institute

The Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) brings stakeholders in the internet industry together to ensure an enjoyable online experience for children and families, whether at home or on their mobile handset. Few people would not consider themselves a stakeholder in this issue in some way or another: internet companies, educators, government officers and politicians, law-enforcement […]

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 […]

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 […]

ICRA receives UK Registered Charity Status

7th January 2003 ICRA receives UK Registered Charity Status The UK Charity Commission has granted Charitable Status to the Internet Content Rating Association. As reported in The Times: THE Internet Content Rating Association, which aims to help parents to protect children from potentially harmful material on the internet, has been recognised as a charity by […]

ICRA Joins W3C

19th October 2004 ICRA joins W3C ICRA has become an affiliate member of the Word Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and is now able to join the effort to lead the web to its full potential for all users, especially children. W3C is the body that works with industry to recommend standards for the internet, HTML […]

Labelled with ICRA

No nudity No sexual material No violence No potentially offensive language No potentially harmful activities No user-generated content This material appears in an educational context The label declares that it was issued on 2005-10-3 Labels file is in ICRAchecked database The Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA) is an international, non-profit organization of internet leaders working […]

Technische Angaben zum ICRA-Kennzeichnungssystem

Die ICRA gibt es, um Benutzer dabei zu unterstützen, gewünschte Inhalte zu finden, denen sie vertrauen können und Inhalte zu vermeiden, die sie als ungeeignet für sich selbst oder für ihre Kinder erachten. Es wird ein Vokabular bereitgestellt, das verwendet werden kann, um jegliche digitale Inhalte auf eine Weise zu beschreiben, die eine umfassende Bandbreite […]

Labelled with ICRA

No nudity No sexual material No violence No potentially offensive language No potentially harmful activities No user-generated content This material appears in an educational context The label declares that it was issued on 2005-10-3 Labels file is in ICRAchecked database The Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA) is an international, non-profit organization of internet leaders working […]