Software to help tackle bullying to be piloted

Software developed by anti-bullying experts and an Irish technology firm that could screen and block access to harmful internet material on phones is to be piloted in Germany.

Stephen Minton, a lecturer in the psychology of education at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), has helped Techbridge Consultants and Vodafone to develop the technology.

It extends aspects of existing project Safety Net, which operates on millions of phones to time manage access to texts and block numbers.