SaferWeb- Community-Driven Collection Of Suitable Websites For Children

Abstract: Regardless of what you might think about the Internet and its communities, it is an undeniable fact that their importance and the number of users have grown sig-nificantly over the last years. They have also come to manage rather complex tasks, as illustrated by tagging communities and similar applications. In our SaferWeb ap-proach, we use a community platform to collect suitable websites for children. Cur-rent webfilters for children use blacklist or whitelist approaches. However, blacklists only block already known websites and thus, finding and adding new sites is a time-consuming manual effort. Similarly, whitelists only allow known websites suitable for children, and again, the effort required to find and manage adequate sites is immense as well. SaferWeb uses a community to manage a whitelist and thus distributes the effort to many shoulders. In this paper, we present our SaferWeb community and its whole architecture also containing a proxy and a browser toolbar.