Scheme Background
The Home Office Hi Tech Crime Team and Ofcom sponsored the development of a standard and Kitemark scheme for internet service providers and software products, with the objective of protecting children from undesirable features of internet technology.
The project was a collaboration involving BSI as the UK's National Standards Body, the Home Office, Ofcom, and representatives of ISPs and application developers to raise the standard of filtering, monitoring and blocking applications for the UK market.
Kitemark Child Safety Online Scheme Supporters:
- 8e6 Technologies
- Adaptive Mobile
- AOL
- BASDA
- BBC Online
- BBFC
- Becta Internet Taskforce
- Bluecoat
- Borderware
- Brightfilter
- BSI (British Standards Institution)
- Cabinet Office
- Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility
- Chat Moderators
- Childnet International
- Commtouch
- Crisp Thinking
- Dubit
- Fortinet
- F-Secure Corporation
- Guardian Software
- Home Office
- IBM
- Independent Committee for the Supervision of Standards of Telephone Information Services (ICSTIS)
- Interactive Media in Retail Group
- Internet Content Association
- Internet Watch Foundation
- Intertek
- ISPA
- Learning and Teaching Scotland
- Lightspeed Systems
- McAfee
- Media Education
- Message Labs
- Microsoft
- Mobile Broadband Group
- NAI
- National Childrens Home Taskforce
- National Computing Centre
- Netintelligence
- Netsweeper
- NTL
- Ofcom
- Pacsis
- Public Sector Forums
- Rulespace
- Secure Computing
- SmoothWall
- Solarsoft Ltd
- Sophos
- StreamShield
- Surfpatrol
- Symantec
- THUS Plc
- t-Scheme
- Virgin Media
- Wanadoo
- Websense
- Wise Kids
- Yahoo
- Yousurf
- Zentec Solutions
