Policies for content filtering in educational networks: the case of Greece

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.