A local solution to protect children from exposure to online pornography has received a $15,000 grant.
The money would be used to promote Safe Surfer and encourage people to join 7000 other families already signed up.
Safe Surfer was invented last year by two Tauranga fathers and IT experts, Rory Birkbeck and Aaron Sinclair, who were frustrated by their offspring's accidental exposure to porn.
"Off-the-shelf software programmes have to be installed across multiple devices, be updated regularly and tend to over-block the internet," Mr Birkbeck said.
With 30 years' combined experience in IT the men developed Safe Surfer which was installed on internet routers.