Access to 18m harmful websites restricted in Azerbaijani schools

Through a system of Internet filtering of software Websense, used in the Azerbaijan Education Network (AzEduNet), access to 18 million sites in 90 thematic groups that contain harmful information for pupils has been limited. According to the ICT Centre, Websense software is one of the leading solutions in the world for information security of content.

In Azerbaijan, the definition of the thematic groups on malicious web resources is carried out by the Council on the organization of Internet use and content filtering in educational institutions.

Access is limited to the following web resources, which may have a negative impact on the child's psyche: pornography, violent behavior, extremism, promoting drugs and alcohol, as well as a whole variety of sites that do not match with ethical and moral standards of the younger generation.

At the same time access is restricted to web resources, having a potential threat of virus attacks on computer systems.

Considering the increasing number of dangers to children in the global network, within project of the Azerbaijani Education Ministry and corporation Intel "One student - one computer", an opportunity was created for two thousand students, provided with netbooks, to use package "Safer Internet".
 

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