WiredKids and WiredSafety Group Honor Government, Industry
Alaska’s
Sen. Ted Stevens and Microsoft Among Recipients
WASHINGTON,
D.C. – May 25, 2005 – Government and industry leaders received awards today for helping keep the Internet
safe, especially for children. WiredKids.com and the WiredSafety Group, one of the world’s largest online safety organizations,
gave the honors at its annual WiredKids Summit.
Parry
Aftab, Executive Director of the WiredSafety Group, said she was glad to publicly recognize those working to improve Internet
safety. “It’s always such a pleasure to see how many people and organizations are committed to improving Internet
safety,” Aftab said. “Keeping the Internet safe can sometimes seem insurmountable.
But giving these awards each year reminds us how many great people are successfully devoting resources to the effort.”
Sen.
Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, received the Internet Super Hero Award for his personal investment in children and the Internet. Stevens,
chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, is the first recipient of the award. He has worked in Alaska and Washington, D.C.,
to help children understand the importance of good cyber-citizenship. Spiderman, WiredKids’ “spokeshero”
presented the award to Sen. Stevens.
Microsoft
was honored with two awards. The WiredSafety Group cited the company’s
collaboration with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in developing the Child Exploitation Tracking System (CETS), a
technology tool for police agencies worldwide to help law enforcement track and share investigative information related to
crimes against children. The RCMP also was honored with the Wired Cops Award. The Safe Gaming Award was presented to Microsoft for its Xbox safe gaming technology
features and to Disney’s Toontown.
The Child
Safety Research & Innovation Center (CSRIC) was awarded The Child Protector Award. CSRIC is a not-for-profit organization
that was formed to prevent the injury, exploitation, and victimization of children and families. CSRIC is committed to being
a community partner in child safety through innovation, education and prevention. CSRIC has developed Sydney
Safe-Seeker and the Incredible Journey Home, a suite of products focused on “Street Proofing”. It is comprised
of an entertaining CD-ROM game to teach child safety; parent and educator assessment tools that track the child’s safety
knowledge; and a wealth of support materials and activity sheets for parents, educators, police, and other child safety professionals.
WiredKids and WireSafety Group Honor Government, Industry “Technology is Microsoft’s cornerstone, so we’re pleased to help law enforcement with new technology
like CETS and help gamers remain safe with the unique parental control tools in Xbox,” said Microsoft Canada’s
Paula Knight. “We’re proud to be in such distinguished company and to accept these two honors along with our colleagues
at the RCMP.”
Seven award categories were presented at the event this year:
· WiredSafety.org’s Corporate Hero Award: Microsoft
Canada
· WiredSafety’s Safe Gaming Award: Microsoft Xbox and Disney’s Toontown
· Wired Cops Awards: Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the FBI, the U.S. Postal Inspector’s Service, Herdon Police
Department, U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan and Department of Justice.
· WiredKids’ Best of the Web Awards: AOL KOL, Disney.com, PBSkids.org, Nick.com and Scholastic.com
· Internet Visionary Award: Napster.com
· Internet Super Hero Award: Sen. Ted Stevens
- The Child Protector Award: Child Safety Research and Innovation Center
WiredKids.com
and the WiredSafety Group is among the largest online safety and help groups in the world and was formed by cyberlawyer and
Internet safety expert, Parry Aftab. A 501c3 organization, it operates WiredSafety.org, WiredKids.org, Teenangels.org, InternetSuperHeroes.org
and StopCyberbullying.org. It has volunteers in 76 countries.
Contact: Parry Aftab, Executive Director, 201-463-8663, parry@aftab.com
