Pistoia, February 9, 2016 – Cyberbullying has been the focus of the Safer Internet Day organized by the State Police (Postal and Communications Police), with the Ministry of Education, through the initiative , which involved 60 thousand students distributed in the Italian capital city of the peninsula percent.
The slogan was: “ Play your part to better Interne t” or “Play your bit for a better Internet. ” The initiatives at Pistoia, took place mainly in Valdinievole, where the Postal met with about 300 boys between the high school Coluccio Montecatini and schools of Chiesina Uzzanese and Ponte Buggianese.
A from Social Life is a traveling project developed by Postal and Communications Police in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and co-financed by the European Commission as part of the Generations Connected initiatives. The goal is to help users to surf the Web safely and to deal with awareness and control of shared data online. The initiative also has its own Facebook page UnaVitadaSocial, in which records all activities and impressions of the young students.
The goal of the training is to teach kids to exploit the communication potential of the web and the online community without running risks relating to cyber-bullying, infringement of others and their privacy, the loading of inappropriate content, copyright infringement and the adoption of incorrect or dangerous behavior for himself and for others. Training on safety issues and responsible use of the network is a daily commitment of the State Police and the collaboration with the Ministry of Education, is crucial.
“A commitment – explains the Police Post – also substantiated by recent data published by Norton Cyber security Insights report, on the relationship between young and online security. from the report shows that 92% of Italian parents said he was concerned about the online safety of their children, and three out of four said they had taken precautions to protect them. the measures used by parents were the restrictions on access to some web sites (53%) and to the information they post about them on their own Social Network (51%), together with those that their children can share with their circles ” .
in addition, 42% of Italian parents said incidents of cybercrime suffered by children, the most frequent of which are been downloading a virus on their PC or on that of the family (20%), replies to e-mail phishing (9%), episodes of smishing (the variant of SMS phishing) and violations of company profiles (both the third place in the standings, with 8% of the responses). In this context, the major concerns of parents concern for 61% fear that their children may give too much information to strangers, 59% fear that they may be duped to encounter bad guys and 53% that they may suffer bullying or harassment.
“From the very serious episodes of the news – says the compartment manager of Postal and Communications of Florence, Elena Pumped -, as it relates to young victims of electronic bullying and which are subject in painful silence, as other young people, “protagonists” executioners, often the same schoolmates or class, it appears that the need is even stronger than inform and educate a navigation manager through an incessant educational synergy between the school, the family and the institutions where everyone can better do its part. “
LUCIA AGATI
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