SANTO DOMINGO. – The president of the Dominican Telecomm Institute (Indotel) proposed a pact between the Government and the private sector to install filters and software that control and facilitate the Internet’s healthy and safe use by youngsters, to prevent unscrupulous people from using information technologies for criminal purposes.

Jose Rafael Vargas said the idea is to establish a code of conduct and user-friendly information for children on the Web, and provide support to public and private schools and cybercafés.  “Special attention must be paid to what youngsters do on the Internet and the family must be protected, not only in the network, but also on the radio and television, to keep the pornographic poison from harming the youth and continued damage to grammar, our verbal expression and even the way Dominican society behaves.”

The official speaking in the Central Bank to launch the “Campaign for a Healthy and Ethical Internet in the Dominican Republic,” added that there’s a need for children to surf the Web safely.