Free Censornet makes the Internet a safe place for learning

Intrago has released Censornet a Linux based software application which allows for advanced filtration and monitoring of Internet useage. It is freely available as a download and is targeted at schools and colleges.

Schools and colleges can now make the Internet safe for their pupils by using the new, revolutionary Censornet software, made available free by Intrago Ltd.

Educational authorities in many countries have been grappling with the difficulties involved in the safe use of the Internet in the classrooms they are responsible for.

Finding the balance between the pressures exerted on education by central government for all students to be taught using the Internet, email etc. as a key-stone of curricula learning, against the proliferation of unsuitable material that makes the Internet an unsafe place for children to browse unsupervised and unrestricted, has been a hard task.

Many schools are actively slowing down or denying Internet access for their students because of the fear of legal action from parents should the students be exposed to content that could be deemed harmful to young minds.

Costs of implementing remedies are in many cases prohibitive, now Intrago Ltd., a UK based software development house, has introduced a holistic solution with Censornet, a comprehensive software programme that filters, controls and monitors users accessing the Internet.

Censornet uses "Open Source" software that has as its premise that it should be essentially free and available to all. Censornet is a freely available download and has no licences fees and can be configured by the end user to fit specific system requirements.

Intrago have developed Censornet using Linux, the open source software now leading the market place in Internet Server Applications. Linux is increasingly gaining market share in the commercial world as it evolves into a viable alternative to the traditional products from the likes of Microsoft Novell etc.

Intrago CEO and founder Internet veteran Tim Lloyd believes that open source software will increasingly offer education, as well as industry and commerce, solutions to software requirements and needs, " at last there is an affordable way for all those who are responsible for providing access to the web, to control both the use and the abuse, and evidence due diligence to all concerned. Open source will be increasingly seen as the software medium of choice"