Scene at the signing of a cooperation deal on child protection in cyberspace among Microsoft Vietnam, the Department of Child Affairs under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, and the ChildFund Vietnam(Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Microsoft Vietnam will sponsor 5.4billion VND (233,676 USD) to aid Vietnam’s efforts in protecting childrenonline as part of a freshly signed agreement.
The cooperation deal on child protection in cyberspace wassigned in Hanoi on July 12 by Microsoft Vietnam, the Department of ChildAffairs under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, and theChildFund Vietnam.
The pact stipulates that Microsoft Vietnam’s financial andtechnical assistance will be offered to the other two parties over the next 25months.
The project aims to help boost communication campaigns thatraise public awareness about the cyber-safety of children, in particular somerelevant protection skills.
It will also build web-based data that enable users toreport child abuse cases, and an application that provides technical solutionsfor child safety in cyberspace. The two programmes, operating on both web andmobile platforms, will first be carried out within the frameworks of two childprotection projects run by the ChildFund in Hoa Binh, Cao Bang, and Bac Kanprovinces.
The signing ceremony took place at a conference on buildinga protection network for children online, during which representatives from theDepartment of Child Affairs, the Department of Information Security under theMinistry of Information and Communications, the ChildFund Vietnam, MicrosoftVietnam, the SecDev Foundation, and UNICEF, among others, shared theirexperiences and voiced commitments to the programme.
Michael Gray, Vietnam Program Director at the Canadian-basedSecDev Foundation, said the building of the protection network is a practicalactivity for the Government, social organisations, and businesses in Vietnam.
Dang Hoa Nam, Director of the Department of Child Affairs,said the Government and various public agencies have always paid heed to childprotection work, particularly in cyberspace.
The responsibility requires the concerted efforts of the Government,social organisations, businesses, the media, and individuals so that children canenjoy their right to access information and grow comprehensively in the digitalage, he stressed.
Vietnam, which joined the World Wide Web in 1997, calculated64 million locals, or 67 percent of the population, using the internet as ofJune 2017. -VNA
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