Welcome ...

ICRA is a unique organisation. Our dual aims are to protect children from potentially harmful material while also protecting free speech on the Internet. We are an independent charity with offices in the USA and Europe. We are backed by major hi-tech companies and foundations including AOL, BT, Cable & Wireless, IBM, Microsoft and the Bertelsmann Foundation. We have also just secured funding from the European Commission to make the system more internationally acceptable and to translate it into many of the major languages of the world.

Please take a moment to explore the full range of our system, our aims and our plans for the future. If you have any particular issue, comment or question you would like to raise, please don't hesitate to contact me at

With best wishes

Stephen Balkam
Executive Director
Internet Content Rating Association


Useful Information

To learn how to use the RSACi filtering system within Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Netscape's Communicator browsers, please click here.

If you are a webmaster and would like to rate your site, please follow this link.

For a full list of our Board of Directors, our international Advisory Board and the staff list, look here.

For our latest news, press releases and news clippings, click here.

And for a full explanation of how to become a member, our mission statement, principles and business plan, please go to the Membership section.

Setting The Levels

Please have a look at the table below. It gives you, at a glance, the four categories of the RSACi system with the five levels and their descriptors. It is these levels that parents and other interested individuals will set at their browser or blocking device: