This year's SID will be more focused on better cyber-parenting.
For Safer Internet Day (SID) 2018, local agencies are focusing on making parents more Internet savvy so they can keep their families safe online.
While SID, celebrated globally on Feb 6, ran with the theme "Create, connect and share respect: A better internet starts with you", the Malaysian edition focused on the topic of "Cyber Parenting – Cyber Resilient Families Begin With You".
National Cyber Security Agency (NCSA) chief executive Ir Shah Nuri Md Zain said as an entity responsible for the nation's cyber-security, NSCA was committed to preparing Malaysia to be wiser and more ethical online.
Among the programmes and initiatives organised in conjunction with SID 2018 were the #DealWithIT campaign, a study on Internet-related health risk among teenagers, guidebook, videos and a seminar on cyber-parenting.
The #DealWithIT campaign, introduces five pledges for guardians choosing to be more responsible with their cyber-parenting.
The study would be undertaken in collaboration between Pusat Perubatan University Kebangsaan Malaysia (PPUKM) and experts from the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) Criminology Department, to investigate the effect of Internet-addiction on teens and children's physical health.
The guidebook on cyber-parenting, published in collaboration with DiGi Telecommunications, would equip parents with the information they'd need to nurture and educate their children about the Internet.
Meanwhile the videos on cyber-parenting would address issues related to cyber-security involving children and the role parents play in educating them. These videos were made in collaboration with Limkokwing University of Creative Technology.
The National Council of Women’s Organisations (NCWO) would be organising "Cyber Resilient Families Begin With You" seminar on Feb 24, from 9am to 2pm, at the Royale Chulan Hotel in Kuala Lumpur.
CyberSecurity Malaysia chief executive officer Datuk Dr Amirudin Abdul Wahab said that since 2010, SID had been an annual push to educate users about the importance of cyber security.
"The theme of cyber-parenting this year is inline with various groups efforts to improve safe Internet usage among parents, women and children," he said, in a press release.
SID was celebrated annually in Feb with the objective of promoting safer and more responsible Internet-usage, especially among teenagers and children.
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