Parental workshops dedicated to safe internet to be held at schools
14-03-2013 18:19:19 | Armenia | Science and Technology
Events envisaged in the scope of the “Safe Internet Armenia 2013” large-scale joint program of Orange Armenia, the Center for Media Education and the Internet Society are underway. Today starts the stage of parental workshops, aiming to raise awareness of the parnets of pupils on safe internet, to give them knowledge and tools to exercise control over the online content consumed by their underage children, to protect them from all potential virtual dangers.
“As a leading mobile internet provider in Armenia we care for our customers by providing them with keys to safe internet use. Nowadays children are mastering internet skills more quickly and for parents it is sometimes difficult to control their children’s online behaviour. Orange customers may acquire necessary software solutions to safe internet use. As a responsible company we were happy to join this large-scale educational program, which will help many parents with specific and practical advice,” said Nazareth Seferian, CSR and Philanthropy Expert at Orange Armenia.
Giving importance to safe internet use, since last year Orange has been supporting not only training and educational courses, which aim to raise everyone’s awareness on current internet-related issues and provide practical information, but also in partnership with Kaspersky Labs has made available Kaspersky Internet Security softawre to its customers since already last year, which ensures protection of children from sites with irrelevant content. The above software solution can be acquired both from Orange shops and straight from the interface of Internet Now modem. Many Orange customers are already benefiting from this solution.
“Internet can become a powerful educational and creative mean for youngest members of the family. When installing the computer in an accessible place and defining rules for common use, we will help children to be safe when surfing the internet” said Narine Khachatryan, the Deputy Director of the Center for Media Education.
All those concerned about the nature and safety of the online content their children consume may visit www.safe.am, where necessary information and advice on safe internet use can be found in Armenian.
This year in the scope of the “Safe Internet” project about 200 teachers and over 3000 pupils from 150 schools will participate to an open lesson. It is planned to enroll 3000 parents in parental workshops.
As a reminder, last year in the scope of the same project 300 teachers from Yerevan and RA marzes were trained, and over 6000 pupils, instead of the anticipated 5000, participated to an open lesson. Since the launch of the project www.safe.am has been visited by over 12 000 users, safe internet game has been opened over 7 000 times and the Internet literacy handbooks and parent guides have been downloaded over 4 000 times.
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