Safer Internet

Alliance Langas į ateitį is participating in implementation of Safer Internet programme. It is a programme with the objective to call the society’s attention to information of illegal and harmful content on the Internet related to violations such as pornography, paedophilia, racism, and xenophobia envisaged by Lithuanian law. Particular attention is being attached to protection of children and adolescents from the harmful content of the Internet.

Safer Internet is a programme of the European Commission (EC) Information Society and Media Directorate-General which has been implemented since 1999 in most EU countries. In 2005, the programme was started in Lithuania by the mobile telecommunication company Bitė Lietuva, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Lithuania, and Social and Psychological Service Centre which won the tender announced by the EC. From the April of 2007 the program is continuing to be implemented by the Communications Regulatory Authority of the Republic of Lithuania and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Lithuania.

The main tasks of Safer Internet project are the following: education of the society on the issues of a safe internet and Hotline implementation.

Source: www.draugiskasinternetas.lt (Safer Internet project page).