Facebook with the Ministry of Women and Child Development to promote online safety
Facebook has announced a bundle of initiatives to accelerate digital literacy efforts in India, at the second edition of the South Asia Safety Summit. With this there would be a content partnership with the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD), formation of an Ideal Internet Consortium to propose recommendations for online child safety and launch of We Think Digital in India which is the company’s global digital literacy program.
The South Asia Safety Summit is Facebook’s annual event to host critical conversations pertaining to digital safety and security. The summit was joined by over 100 organizations from Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and India.
Key Announcements at the Summit:
* Partnership with the Ministry of Women Child Development to pursue opportunities to build digital literacy to keep more women and children safe, by raising awareness about online privacy, safety and security.
* #CreateCareConnect comic series has been launched at the event. Illustrated by a young Delhi-based doodler, @neha.doodles, the series aims to educate young users about online safety in a simple, fun and engaging way.
* Coming in 2020, Facebook will launch another Thumbstoppers campaign, which will be a series of short creative mobile videos of 10 seconds from India’s advertising community. The videos will focus on empowering and educating people on issues like gender equality, domestic violence and education for the girl child.
* Facebook has announced the formation of Ideal Internet Consortium: Led by the Aarambh India Initiative, Ideal Internet Consortium is a unique working group of child safety practitioners that will use real field experience and research to deliberate over safety issues and propose recommendations for civil society, industry and government. So far, the consortium has had seven focus group discussions with young people from cites across Odisha, Tripura, Jharkhand and Kerala. The findings will help to create strategies focused on keeping young users safe online.
Facebook is committed to supporting economic growth and social good in India and is working with partners to train more than 5 million people by 2021. As part of this effort, Facebook has also announced the launch of We Think Digital, its global digital literacy program and will partner with agencies from both government and civil society. The program will make use of learning modules designed to equip people with skills, including the ability to think critically about what they see online, how to communicate respectfully, and engage in digital discourse.
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