Well internet can be a medium that distracts as web surfing can lead to a non-focussed experience where a user moves from one page to another without really achieving what he set out to do in the first place. Also web though necessary in every office in today’s day and age has also been restricted with the blocking of sites so that non work related browsing doesn’t waste the time of employees. According to a recent study Delhi employees topped non work related web surfers list which also stated that an average five hours a week were spent on personal web surfing, causing an annual loss of about Rs 1.6 lakh per employee.. And this isn’t limited to only office goers as college students are the most active web users in today’s day and age. Be it projects, orkutting or facebooking college students are doing it all.

 Inorder to make sure that students are not whiling their time away and are upto something constructive college boards are contemplating to use technology-based management solutions to curb internet misuse.

Universities and institutions such as the Delhi University, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Symbiosis Institute (Pune), NITRourkela, Jamia Milia Islamia University, Narsee Monjee Institute Of Management Studies (Mumbai) to name a few, have implemented identity-based management solutions on their network servers, to trace multi-user behaviour and manage bandwidth.

According to institutes students are sending IM messages to family and friends, chatting, downloading music /movies, playing online games and visiting objectionable sites. To make sure that internet bandwidth, and to implement disciplinary measures, various educational institutes have started deploying identitybased systems or unified threat management systems (UTMs).

I guess all the online startups must be thinking that in anycase the online userbase is low and if both colleges and corporates are going to curb the internet usage then the user base wont increase as rapidly as being projected by IAMAI.

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