TY - JOUR T1 - Policies for Content Filtering in Educational Networks: The case of Greece JF - Journal of Telematics and Informatics, Elsevier Science, Vol. 20, Issue 1 Y1 - 2003 A1 - Christos Bouras A1 - Maria Avgoulea A1 - Mixalis Paraskevas A1 - G Stathakopoulos AB - The Internet removes all barriers to sending and receiving information. An increasing number of nations connect their schools on the Internet as an acknowledgment of its importance in education. Despite its undeniable usefulness, it also has certain perils. This study specifies and evaluates these, finding the technologies that are currently available to address filtering issues and comparing them. We present our proposed solution for the Greek School Network, and illustrate to what extent our solution successfully addresses the issues discussed. ER - TY - CONF T1 - Policies for Content Filtering in Educational Networks : the Case of Greece T2 - ED – MEDIA 2002, Denver, Colorado, USA Y1 - 2002 A1 - Christos Bouras A1 - Maria Avgoulea A1 - Mixalis Paraskevas A1 - G Stathakopoulos AB - An increasing number of nations connect their schools on the Internet as an acknowledgment to its extreme importance in the education area. Our study specifies the perils that arise from its use when the users are minors and evaluates the technologies that are currently available to address the filtering issues. The thoughts presented in this paper outline our proposed solution for the Greek School Network. By no means the thoughts that are presented here, apply for adults or people who pay to establish access to the Internet. JF - ED – MEDIA 2002, Denver, Colorado, USA ER -