A Ghanaian child protection group, J initiative is pushing for better safety measures for children and young people online.
The group is not satisfied with current protection system in place for children and young people when they use the Internet and has for sometime now been dedicating its efforts at advocating for revised governmental policies.
The Executive Director of the NGO, Awo Aidam Amenyah in April joined hundreds of prominent child rights experts from across the world for the Child Safety Summit in Facebook and Google’s Dublin headquarters in Ireland.
Google and Facebook joined forces to host the large gathering focused on child online safety for two days.
Over 160 organizations from Europe, Middle East and other African countries discussed fighting child sexual abuse online, digital literacy projects, showcased child safety tools & products among others.
Madam Amenyah told journalists in Accra that “the programme (Summit) was a success, the take out from the summit helped position the country in adopting a comprehensive system to guarantee child online safety by taking into consideration all stakeholder inputs.”
J initiative which has been a major stakeholder in pushing for better policies to protect children online is now engaging government officials to introduce new safety guidelines among other tools for teachers and children when they go online.
“Feedback from meeting with the National Communications Authority, the Minister for Communication, her deputy and one of the directors and other stakeholders like World Vision in Ghana and the Media Foundation For West Africa give me hope that all will be well for the children and young people of Ghana,” Amenyah added.
The NGO has announced plans to help schools in Ghana wishing to benefit from its short courses on safety and guides for teachers and young people before and during the safer Internet Month dubbed #NiceNetNovember later this year courtesy Facebook and Google Ireland.
Source: Africafeeds.com
