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Parental Control Free Software - Granny Power!

When I was a child my grandparents used to live up the street. My Grandfather would turn up at our house everyday at 4.30 just a few minutes after I got in from school. It seemed I always learned something from him, everyday, he felt it was important to learn and he was only interested in the well being of the family… nothing else. One hot summer evening we were just sat in the garden, my Grandfather had a glass of lemonade and I had a Coke. Our daily ritual included me telling Granddad what I had learned at school that day, so I was chattering away when Granddad  took a sip of his drink, put it down and proceeded to put cling film over the top of his glass. ‘What are you doing that for Granddad?' I said looking on with incredulity. ‘You'll see" he said. Just after he uttered those words, and as if by magic, a wasp flew into my Coke and began swimming around. I looked on open- mouthed and Granddad just smiled knowingly.

I remember thinking that my Granddad must be some kind of magician, at one with nature or someone who could see into the future. From that moment on I was always in awe of Granddad and did everything he ever told me. He died when I was 12,  I've missed him every day since.

We all have stories of our grandparents heroics and I am sure everyone thinks of their grandparents as I did of mine. However with modern life making our schedules very busy, with mobility being what it is and with the opportunities to travel never better, sometimes the magic that are grandparents get left behind.

The great news is that modern life has not only caused families to be more fractured but has also given us the tools to communicate more and heal those fractures. Skype, Messenger etc have given the ability to talk to friends and family all over the world for free… which is awesome. The only thing tainting the issue is people who use these tools for nefarious activities and grandparents certainly don't want to encourage their precious grandkids to use unsafe media.

The guys at Anne's Diary Inc have come up with a solution that should warm the hearts of grandparents everywhere, because they have developed a platform that has family firmly at the center of their concept.

The software, which has been developed in-house, is several platforms brought into one offering which provides parental control functionality and social networking for young people. The most interesting thing for parents and grandparents is that this is all provided for free and it is secure system delivering a safe environment for young people to interact.

The security for users is based on Verification, Personal Verification Questions, Password and SSL Encryption.

Initially a parent signs up for the Koini system and they are asked to verify themselves by  downloading a pre-completed pdf file, signing it and email or faxing it back to the company (alternatively, for convenience,  they can be verified via credit card by a nominal payment of $1). This provides the physical address, email address, phone number and other identifying information and an IP address is also known from this account. Once this is reviewed and when approved the system is live for the parent.

For the young person, when they first log on to the Koini Browser they are asked a series of questions with one-word answers they can remember. These questions are used as a random question log on along with password verification. So if someone has acquired the young person's password they would not be able to log on with just that information.

The verification and security processes are the access protections for the platform; the site also runs an encryption process known as 'SSL encryption'. This system scrambles messages exchanged between the Koini browser and its online servers. Encryption makes it very difficult for unauthorized people to view information travelling between computers, making it extremely tough for anyone to intercept and read the page a young person is viewing as it travels across the network.

With this verification process, the parent and the child now have access to three things:

1. The Koini Safe Browser. The parent can download this onto any computer that their kids use and once protection is turned on, the child is unable to IM anyone or search any sites that have not been approved by Koini or the parent.

2. Koini Club. This is a social network for young people from 5 - 17 which is totally customizable. From the parent's dashboard at Koini.com, the parent can now add children and set the parameters for their web experience. For example, if you have a 10 year old girl and you only want her to interact with other 10 year old girls on the Koini Club site then you can do that. If you have 15 year boy and you want him to be able to speak with 14,15 and 16 year old boys and girls then you can that.

3. Koini Cafe. Parents can have fun too, (although our younglings don't seem to think it is allowed) so Koini created the Koini Cafe where parents have the functionality of the Koini Club but for adults. Everyone on the site will have been verified and everyone is a parent, guardian, or family member of  a Koini Club member so when you are chatting you can be certain you are speaking with the person they claim to be.

The simplicity of use of the system is something that the company concentrated a lot of effort on, "We are aware that some parents are not as technologically savvy as their children so we had to build a back-end, what we call 'The Dashboard', that had functionality but was easy for parents to navigate" Jorge Sariego, technical Director of Anne's Diary Inc said.

Circle of Trust

"The thing we are most proud of though, is that the Koini Club network is fully customizable. Although it is one large secure database the parameters are controlled by the parents. That has allowed us to build a 'Circle of Trust' around the child just like we, as parents, do in real life" he added

"For example, parents can add Grandma to Koini Cafe, where she could interact with other Grandma's and parents. Because she is in the 'circle of trust' of the parent, she is able to IM her Grand Daughter and chat."

With the security taken care of, simplicity of use and family friendly functionality, Koini has created not only a great fun, safe platform for kids but a platform that is able to benefit the family as a whole. Imagine a scenario where aunts and uncles, grandmas and grandpas are just a safe IM message away.

This is something that Koini envisaged from the start "Our aim has always been to develop a platform that is fun for kids and provides a level of protection that is not seen on any equivalent platform, but we also wanted to have family functionality. The simple fact of life is that the best protection a young person will ever have is to be able to be educated in the ways of the world. As a parent I want my family to be the educators not a range of eclectic online ‘friends' who I have never met and do not know".

I know one thing, Granddad would approve.

About the Author

The author has spent 20 years in the financial services industry trading everything from physical commodities to futures and now consultants with and writes for a variety of including The Blog For Entrepreneurs and promotes the use of parental control free software.