Best Security Initiative 2009
| Winner 2009 |
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| Hector’s World Limited |
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Hector’s World Limited (HWL) is an educational initiative offering a positive start to life online for children aged two to nine.
By visiting www.hectorsworld.com children are guided by Hector Protector and his animated friends while learning how to become safe, capable and responsible digital citizens.
The Hector’s World website addresses the most common risks for this age group including: giving out too much personal information, accessing inappropriate material, becoming targets of hyper-commercialism, spam, or cyber bullying and spending excessive time online.
Through partnerships with the New Zealand Ministry of Education and New Zealand Police, HWL also offers a range of free information available for parents and teachers to support children through their journey online.
Hector’s World Limited has been acknowledged as best practice by government bodies around the world including the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre in the UK, the Australian Communications and Media Authority and the Ministry of Education in New Zealand.