Jamaica’s two telecoms giants, Flow and Digicel, are today staging a range of activities to help students better use the world wide web as the island joins the globe in observing Safer Internet Day.
Flow promoting digital responsibility
Flow Jamaica will join other companies in the Liberty Latin America group to lead activities across the region under the global theme ‘Together for a Better Internet’, focusing on the importance of digital responsibility and the measures people, more specifically young people, can take to use the Internet safely.
“As an Internet service provider, we provide connectivity for thousands of Jamaicans on mobile and in their homes and schools. We are therefore not only keenly aware of the utility of the world wide web but also the threats in that space, and so we feel duty-bound to educate Internet users of all ages about how to protect themselves in the online world,” the release quotes Stephen Price, Flow Jamaica’s country manager.
The company said it has embarked on an educational tour of primary schools across the island and will be hosting a summit for students at Merl Grove High School today.
“We welcome any opportunity to further educate our customers, particularly our youth, about how to navigate the web in a safe way,” added Price, whose company currently supplies free Internet services to more than 400 primary schools and community centres across the island.
Flow has already trained 500 students under the age of 12 to act as “online safety monitors” for their schools, families and communities. Spearheaded by the Flow Foundation, the students are taught the “SMART” rules for online safety and how to escalate problematic online matters to a responsible adult.
The company said it is aiming to train another ..
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