Digi CyberSAFE Digital Citizen Camp spreads positive use of internet among youth

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Over 100 schoolchildren from Klang Valley participated in the Digi CyberSAFE Digital Citizen Camp

During 26-28 November 2016, Digi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd (Digi) and UNICEF Malaysia held the first ever Digi CyberSAFE Digital Citizen Camp at Digi headquarters, where the schoolchildren from age 14 to 16 spent 3 days and 2 nights, learning fun, educational and interactive way to build capacity around digital citizenship, towards fostering a group of young ambassadors.

The camp tailored educational games and impact sessions from UNICEF, Generasi Gemilang, R.AGE and Protect and Save the Children, the camp also helped participants to better understand current digital risks such cyberbullying and cyber grooming as well as their role and responsibility in contributing towards a safe and positive digital lifestyle/

“Digi has been a strong advocate for keeping children safe online as shown from a string of CyberSAFE programmes and collaborations with various partners over the past five years. To roundup the year, we decided to organise a camp in partnership with UNICEF Malaysia to further impart knowledge on cyber safety, empowering our children in an exciting and engaging manner. While enjoying themselves, these participants were also encouraged to learn to think for themselves and decide on their digital life behaviors especially in a highly digitised society,” said Philip Ling, Digi’s Programme Manager for CyberSAFE.

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Digi CyberSAFE Digital Citizen Camp participants learned to be responsible digital citizens through fun and educational activities

In addition, many other activities were designed to give participants an emotional insight into what it is like to be cyberbullied and also the harm and pain resulting from it. This way, they were able to learn and decide how they can prevent and take action against these risks.

“We also realised that the most effective way to reach out to the youth is through their peers. Therefore, from this engagement, we hope that we were able to nurture and transform participants to be ambassadors that further promote digital citizenship and safe internet use among their peers. As a result, it would be a chain reaction to help youth to be more aware of and recognise the various cyber risks as well as the measures that can be taken to overcome this issue,” he added.

For more information on the Digi CyberSAFE programme, visit www.digi.com.my/digicybersafe.