Social Responsibility

Since its founding in 1997, Optenet has been firmly committed to eliminating the digital divide through effective education and safe usage of the Internet, especially for children. For this reason, Optenet has helped create a number of child safety initiatives, including Securenet, a European network of child pornography hotlines, as well as NetProtect II, Sift and Infonet, programs that aid in the production of filtering and online classification systems. All of these efforts have been endorsed by the European Commission’s Safer Internet Program. In addition, Optenet’s latest project, Selecta, uses language analysis techniques and tools to automatically classify Internet content.

Optenet is a member of the Internet Watch Foundation, that works with telecommunication providers to combat illegal online content.

Optenet is also affiliated with NGO Protégeles and the International Association of Internet Hotlines, INHOPE.