The National Centre for Technology in Education (NCTE) was an Irish government agency established in 1998 to facilitate the development, funding and use of information and communications technologies in education in the Republic of Ireland. It also developed software for school computers which blocked several websites under the following categories: pornography, malware sites, spam sites, spyware sites, personal blogs and sites, sites with adware or keyloggers, sex and dating sites, other sites unsuitable for children or that may mean harm to the PC.