To ensure the safety of children in a changing social environment
Children today face a rapidly changing environment in which they are increasingly falling victim to crime. Protecting children has thus become a major challenge for parents/guardians, schools, and entire communities.
NTT Group companies are focusing resources on various initiatives to ensure the safety of children. For example, we offer mobile phones equipped with protection alarms and GPS functions that allow parents/guardians to pinpoint their child's whereabouts, a system using RFID tags to keep track of children arriving at or leaving school and inform parents by e-mail, and services for schools to simultaneously send emergency messages to the phones, faxes, e-mail addresses, mobile phones, etc. of every parent or guardian.
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Promoting the use of filtering services
To create a safe environment for mobile phone use by minors, NTT DOCOMO provides filtering services on all i-mode handsets to restrict access to inappropriate sites, etc. From February 2007 a new initiative was introduced to inform all new mobile phone subscribers, irrespective of age, of these services and encourage their use for minors. Service names were also changed to promote greater awareness among junior and high school students. Further to this, from February 2008, the Access Restriction Service has been enabled by default for minors newly subscribing to i-mode. Parents/guardians are informed of this setting and asked if they wish it to be disabled.
Protect Children from Inappropriate Internet Sites! campaign logo
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Meru-Robo Digital Log child monitoring system
A child monitoring system has been developed utilizing technology for controlling robots from mobile phones. This system enables parents/guardians to use a mobile phone to control a robot from a remote location and check on the well-being of their children through images taken by the robot and sent as video e-mail, and to send messages to their children that are read out by the robot. We are currently conducting field tests with nursery facilities, with a view to offering this system commercially.
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FairCast Child Safety Communication Network
Since 2006, a service has been provided for schools to simultaneously inform all parents/guardians and school personnel about the cancellation of school sports or other events, suspension of classes, closing of school due to the issue of alerts and so forth. Such information can be received through e-mail, phone (voice call), or fax.
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