Childnet Welcomes Launch of Internet Content Rating Association 14 May 1999

Nigel Williams, Director of Childnet International, today welcomed the announcement by a number of leading Internet companies that they were funding the establishment of the Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA). ICRA will build on the existing work of the Recreational Software Advisory Council with its RSACi rating system and seek to develop a more broadly based international system over the next year. Childnet has strongly advocated the development of such a rating system for the last three years and was a founder member of the International Working Group on Content Rating which is a direct predecessor of ICRA. While there are many obstacles to overcome, the potential benefits for parents and children of an international system giving objective descriptions of content on web sites are great.