Muscat: The Ministry of Education, represented by the Department of Electronic Information Security, is implementing the digital security week initiative, which its activities kick off on Sunday under the slogan “Digital Communication for Societal Success”.
On the importance of this initiative and the mechanism of its implementation in the various schools of the Sultanate of Oman, Ahmed al Ghatrifi, Assistant Director of the Department of Electronic Information Security at the Ministry, said: “It is an embodiment of the Royal directives of His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tarik emphasising the necessity of sensing the size of the responsibility that rests on society, its institutions and individuals, in dealing with and caring about building a family and raising children, benefiting from technology and digital and social communication, and not relying on social networks alone in raising children. All educational directorates and the Directorate-General of Special Education and Continuous Learning, in light of the approved initiative document, in cooperation with the Department of Electronic Information Security in the Ministry, prepared an implementation plan and formed work teams, as well as preparing an integrated programme during the initiative period for school students and children, as well as their parents and those in charge of education and raising children."
The initiative is implemented in all governmental and private schools across the Sultanate of Oman. It targets students, children, parents and those in charge of raising young people. The initiative aims at implanting the principles, values and concepts of digital security, and raising the level of safety through the awareness of the aspects of safe and optimal use of social networks, while raising the readiness level of response and dealing with digital security risks and threats. It also aims at providing the best practices to be taken and followed to achieve safe upbringing.
The drive includes many awareness workshops for parents and those interested in student affairs, lectures and demonstration by IT security specialists on parental control, risks and threats of digital security, how to respond to it, and promoting good digital citizenship while confirming the preservation of the national identity.
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