Ensure universal awareness of online safety, security and privacy issues:

Actions

Agency

Timing

Status

Increase support for NetSafe to extend the promotion of its NetBasics website, small business toolkit, parent cybersafety training, and cyberbullying prevention programme.

Ministry of Education

2008 onwards.

Expanded
Funding of $700,000 has been allocated
for 2008/09.

Digital Child Exploitation Filtering System. The Digital Child Exploitation Filtering System is a voluntary system that allows internet service providers to prevent their customers accessing websites that portray children being sexually abused. The system blocks access to websites that are on a list of filtered websites maintained by the Department of Internal Affairs. The system does not record the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the computer of persons seeking to access the websites.

Department
of Internal Affairs

2008 onwards.

Expanded