In what appears to be it’s contribution to Corporate Social Responsibility,CSR,the Nigerian Communication Commission,NCC,has launched series of on- line awareness campaign for parents and children towards protection.
The campaign with the theme: Childonline Protection,COP is focused on children and parents on how to relate on line especially in view of the security implications and cybercrime now prevalent in the society.
It is tagged #NCC4COP.
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According to the NCC in its campaign sure bulleting,Children Safety is a responsibility of every parent and guardian as the case may be.
The following Tips are outlined for parents to help keep children safe.
1.Build Trust by keeping communication ope and supportive.
In this regard, the NCC is not oblivious of the fact that most children fall into wrong companies because parents and or guardian are often far from their wards.
2.Be the parent,offline and Online be setting limits, controls and Standards
3. Make sure your child understand the “Smart Rules”.
4 Lead by example..more materials are contained on line-children-safe-online advice parents/file #childonline protection
According to NCC much learning is fun with COP via https//www.ncc.gov.ng/docman-main/internet governance/995.
More tips are also contained in -online-safety-activity-book/file
Guidance on relations with unknown person’s or meeting up with someone you only known online is better reported to a trusted adult for advice and counselling.
Smart Rules:
Safe interaction- don’t give personal information to unknown person’s online
Meeting: This can be unsafe
Tell: Confide only on reliable person’s..in this case unknown person’s could not be said to be reliable.
Accept: Do not accept or open message from unknown source.
Furthermore,Don’t send your pictures or give out personal information to a random person online.
There is no doubt that if parents and children adhere strictly to these counsel and adopt the safety Tips,communication could be controlled and safety guaranteed since unscrupulous elements like fraudsters and kidnappers source information on their victims online.
