Internet Content Rating Association

The Internet Content Rating Association ( ICRA ) is an independent, international non-profit organization that provides a filter system to protect minors from Internet content available to protect children from potentially harmful content.

ICRA was initially in the in Washington DC ( USA) and Brighton (England) -based Family Online Safety Institute ( FOSI ) worked. FOSI provided active support for the designated with ICRA label format for web sites in practice gradually without this officially end a. In October 2010, informing about the ICRA format and the associated website label Webpages by FOSI were removed from the network. Nevertheless, the ICRA label continues to spread internationally on sites of vendors who publish potentially unsuitable content on the Internet for minors.

ICRA was approved by the Commission on Youth Protection in the Media ( KJM ) approved as a pilot, the pilot has failed. ICRA was founded by online service providers such as the Bertelsmann Foundation, Microsoft, AOL, T-Online and Verizon.

Marking procedure

In order to be able to identify a web page with the ICRA label, the site operator ( Webmaster) must fill out an online questionnaire that describes the online presence with regard to youth protection relevant content. ICRA then creates a small HTML code ( meta-tag ), which is inserted by the webmaster in the source code of the page ( self-labeling ).