Internet Watch Foundation

Redstone Managed Solutions, a provider of IT and communications infrastructure services, has announced its further commitment to the Education Sector by joining the Internet Watch Foundation and providing access to SuperJANET.

 

The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) operates the only independent internet ‘Hotline’ in the UK for reporting potentially illegal online content.  As a member of the organisation, Redstone helps to fund the activities of the IWF, committing to abide by its Members' Code of Practice and backing its work and aims.

 

Peter Robbins, IWF CEO, said: “We are very pleased to welcome Redstone as a funding member of the IWF; our success depends on partnerships like these. As a service provider, Redstone have a key role to play in ensuring UK networks remain hostile to the hosting of child sexual abuse content on the internet. We look forward to working with them in the future and progressing the IWF’s successful self-regulatory approach.”

 

Redstone also provides quick, direct access to web content hosted on SuperJANET. JANET links the UK’s education and research organisations to each other as well as to the internet.  The DfES requires that all schools have a broadband internet connection and a link to the National Education Network (NEN).

 

Tariq Saied, Managing Director of Redstone Managed Solutions, said: “Redstone Managed Solutions provides a wide range of Internet solutions to both public and private sector organisations but is particularly active in the education sector where the imperative to guard against inappropriate and illegal online content is at its strongest.  We are pleased to support Internet Watch Foundation initiatives.”

 

Redstone Managed Solutions provides services to the education sector including Internet Connectivity, filtered email, content control, hosting and WebXchange (the examination transfer service between schools). 

 

Redstone will be exhibiting at GC Expo 2007 at London Olympia from 12 June 2007.

 

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Redstone Managed Solutions, a division of Redstone plc provides comprehensive single-source IT and communications infrastructure to the public sector and commercial organisations in the UK.  Its solutions enable organisations to increase the productivity, continuity and security of IT based business processes, enable connectivity between multiple sites and assure the performance of internet based products and services.  The division has offices in London, Cambridge, Birmingham and Stoke on Trent.

 

 

 

 

Its aim is to minimise the availability of potentially illegal internet content, specifically:

The IWF works in partnership with UK Government departments to influence initiatives and programmes developed to combat online abuse. This dialogue goes beyond the UK and Europe, to ensure greater awareness of global issues and responsibilities.

 

Through the 'Hotline' reporting system, the IWF helps ISPs to combat abuse of their services through a ‘notice and take-down’ service by alerting them to any potentially illegal content on their systems and simultaneously inviting the police to investigate the publisher.

 

As a result, less than 1% of potentially illegal content is apparently hosted in the UK, down from 18% in 1997.