The Safer Internet plus programme aims to promote safer use of the Internet and new online technologies particularly for children, and also to fight against illegal content and content unwanted by the end-user. The Programme covers other media such as videos and addresses the fight against racism and “spam”. It focuses more closely on end users namely:

• Parents
• educators
• children

Safer Internet plus has four main actions:

• Fighting illegal content: hotlines that enable the public to report illegal content and which pass the reports on to the appropriate body for action. The programme will fund individual hotlines and network co-ordination, and will be extended to help lines for children worried by illegal and harmful content.
• Tackling unwanted and harmful content: funding for technology that enables users to limit the amount of unwanted and harmful content they receive, or that can be used to test the effectiveness of available filters. Funding will also be available for developing better filters and promoting exchanges of information and best practice on anti-spam enforcement. Better anti-spam enforcement is promoted by the Commission as a complementary measure to the already existing legislative “ban on spam” in the ePrivacy Directive.
• Promoting a safer environment: the EU supports self-regulation, which offers flexibility and understanding of needs in an area combining high technology, rapid change and cross-border activity. The Commission will provide a Safer Internet Forum for national co-regulatory or self-regulatory bodies to exchange experience.
• Awareness-raising: the Commission will support information exchange on safer internet use, particularly for personalised, interactive and mobile applications.

 More information: http://europa.eu.int/information_society/activities/sip/index_en.htm