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*Screen Savers Help Find Missing Children
More than 4,000 children are missing. The screensaver is a great way "to get more and more people engaged" in finding kids.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has launched a new campaign. It is using screen savers to help find missing children. The screen saver will display pictures of children in a user’s area. So far, about a thousand people have downloaded the screen saver.
Developed in partnership with a private software company, Global Software Applications, the rotating screens display a missing child's picture and profile, tailored according to the region of the United States where the computer user is located.
Ron Koning, Global Software's vice president, hopes the screensaver will be used everywhere from police stations to office buildings and "any area with high traffic," he said. "Where it will catch the most eyes."
The company provides public access Internet kiosks, and has been working with NCMEC to display photos on its own machines in hotels, resorts, and Internet cafes since 2005.
Since the milk carton advertising of the 1980s, the organization has tried working with private companies who fax and regular mail the pictures. Any method to get the pictures to the public works. One in six children featured has been found as a result of someone seeing their picture.
Both O'Brien and Koning acknowledge the success of the screensaver initiative will depend on the number of people who download the application.
The screensaver is available free at www.missingkidsaver.com
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