Converge ICT Solutions Inc. yesterday signed a memorandum of agreement with child rights protection group Stairway Foundation Inc. to help curb the rising incidence of online sexual abuse of children (OSAEC).
Converge and Stairway will collaborate in the creation of campaign materials to raise awareness on the high incidence of OSAEC in the country.
Converge, for its part, has scaled up its security measures on the network side to filter sites hosting imagery and videos of sexual abuse of children. So far, 20,000 websites have been blocked on Converge’s network, effectively curbing the heavy traffic to these illicit sites that has been averaging 1,200 hits per minute.
“Over P100 million has been spent by Converge on these substantial technological upgrades,” said Ronald Brusola, Converge chief technology officer, in a virtual ceremony on yesterday.