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Many industry partners, institutions and other organisations support Safer Internet Day with awareness-raising events and activities, or resource launches, to help make the internet a safer and better place.
Latest news
Increase in cyberbullying cases registered in schools in Malta
The police in Malta has reported a substantial increase in cyberbullying cases in different schools with children or adolescents receiving messages of insults, threats and disparaging words on platforms such as Facebook and Instagram, which leaves negative effects on them.The police force has joined BeSmartOnline in an information and educational campaign on Television Malta and Radio Malta on the bad use of digital means and crimes through internet and social media.
Telegram: What you need to know to protect your children
Are you familiar with using online messenger platforms like WhatsApp or Messenger? Do you know Telegram?Many young people use it. For this reason, it is important to know that they could use it in a very different way than you might. For some young people, this messaging service has probably even replaced their favourite social network. The application, supposedly not recommended for those under 16, now welcomes many children under 13 who use it inappropriately on a daily basis.
Parents, why can your daughters change the internet?
Despite the omnipresence of digital technology and its massive use by all, a little-known reality persists: the under-representation and devaluation of girls both in content broadcast online and in digital professions and sectors.