A Child-Friendly Internet Café - Ensuring the Safety of the Youngest Internet Café Customers Are you the owner or an employee of an Internet café? Are you concerned about the safety of your youngest customers? Then join the national “Child-Friendly Internet Café” campaign and get a safe Internet café diploma. The campaign is an initiative of NASK, which carries out the European Commission's “Safer Internet” programme in Poland jointly with the Nobody's Children Foundation.

Research conducted in August 2008 by Gemius SA, the campaign's partner, shows that over 60% of Internet café customers are children, and the youngest independent customers are just 6–7 years old. That is why we want to promote the idea of a “Child-Friendly Internet Café"—one that meets three basic criteria:

1. It has filtering programs installed on computers that are available to children.
2. Computers available to children are monitored by the café employees.
3. The café displays materials that promote safe Internet use: leaflets, posters and brochures that can be read by children who use the Internet.

If an Internet café meets these three criteria, the owner will receive a “Child-Friendly Café” diploma. The campaign organisers have also prepared special prizes—children's games (sponsored by CD Projekt and Nicolas Games) that will encourage them to use Internet cafés that care about children's safety. Our campaign is supported by ANCOM Sp. z o.o., and each Internet café that wants to join but doesn't have a filtering program will receive a free copy of the Cenzor software with a licence for every computer. During tests conducted by NASK as part of the Saferinternet.pl programme, this program proved to be the most effective in filtering out content that is harmful for children. We will also provide Internet café owners with promotional and educational materials for their cafés.

Internet cafés can join the campaign using our registration form at http://kawiarenka.saferinternet.pl/ by 15 February 2009. A participating Internet café that needs the filtering program or promotional materials about children's safety on the Web can order them at kawiarenka@saferinternet.pl. “Child-Friendly Internet Café” diplomas will be awarded to all Internet cafés that meet the three abovementioned criteria and submit photographic documentation of steps taken to promote the safety of the youngest Internet users in the café as part of the campaign at kawiarenka@saferinternet.pl. Such Internet cafés will also receive promotional materials that show their participation (posters, leaflets, stickers, mugs, mouse pads).

Internet cafés that join the campaign will be listed with their addresses on a website dedicated to the campaign at Saferinternet.pl. The list of Internet cafés will also be distributed at training sessions, conferences and open-air events organised as part of the “Safer Internet” programme.

Campaign website: http://kawiarenka.saferinternet.pl/