Chief Executive Officer, Internet Content Rating Association In a career that stretches back twenty years, Stephen Balkam has demonstrated a capacity for visionary leadership, forward planning and advocacy at the highest levels of government, business and the non-profit sector. Stephen’s remarkable career includes directorships of four organizations, including two start-ups. He has worked with over […]
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Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and The First Amendment Director, The Information Society Project, Yale Law School Jack M. Balkin is Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School. He teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law (with a special emphasis on the First Amendment), torts, jurisprudence, telecommunications […]
Vice Dean School of Communication Studies Peng Hwa Ang teaches media management and law at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. A lawyer by training, he worked as a journalist before going on to pursue a Master’s in communication management at the University of Southern California and a PhD in the mass media at Michigan State […]
Image courtesy of Corbis The Protecting Kids with Digimarc program is similar to the Internet Content Rating Association’s website labeling system in that it enables content providers to voluntarily self-regulate their web content in an effort to help make the internet safer for children and to reduce the likelihood of stricter government regulations. […]
If you have been through the rating process before, you can immediately begin the questionnaire NOW. The ICRA labelling system is an open, objective, content-based rating system designed to provide a filtering capability through the web browser. The ICRA rating categories are based upon specific definitions that guide the web author through a checklist of […]
3.6 How do I label a more complex site? OR I’ve labelled my site but I get an error message similar to “The label found on this site is intended for another one’”. What’s going on? The advice below is probably appropriate for you. However, if you’re a professional webmaster working on a large multi-server […]
Document status: This is version 1.1 and includes corrections and suggestions from Michael Radwin to whom I am most grateful. Any further feedback, positive, negative or indifferent is welcome. Download as a (zipped) Word 2000 document formatted for A4 Download as a (zipped) Word 2000 document formatted for US letter size Phil Archer Internet Content […]
President and CEO, Optenet, Spain Born on 8 August 1963, Francisco Martín graduated from the Escuela Superior de Ingenieros Industriales de San Sebastian University of Navarra, where he got an Industrial Engineer degree. From 1987 he worked in research activities at the Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Técnicas (CEIT) and at the Engineering School of […]
ICRA’s dual aims are to: protect children from potentially harmful material; and, to protect free speech on the internet. In short, ICRA is about choice not censorship. As a web author, we invite you to use our system to generate a label which you can then apply to your site. The system is designed to […]
Author, Librarian and Mom Jean Armour Polly is the author of The Internet Kids & Family Yellow Pages (Osborne McGraw-Hill, now in its fourth edition , October, 1999), a family-friendly directory to 4,600 of the best children’s resources the Internet has to offer. Author, librarian, and mom, Jean also wrote the original “Surfing the Internet” […]