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Can India Catch Up to Global Standards of Digital Safety and Security?
The Internet connects over 2.5 billion users worldwide, offering opportunities to young people to connect, communicate, educate, and ultimately expand their horizons. In India, however, several socio-economic disparities along with other divisions, based on gender or race, affect equal access to and safe usage of digital platforms, widening the exi...
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Maharashtra: Forced To Travel 50 Km For Online Classes, Children Reach Out To NCPCR For Internet
The National Commission for Protection Child Rights, in turn, ensured that the connectivity is restored in the fastest possible manner by reaching out to cellular companies and the district magistrate of the area, NCPCR Chairman Priyank Kanoongo said.
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Forced To Travel 50 km For Online Classes, Students Write To Child Rights Body, Demand Internet
Around 200 children were forced to travel 50 kilometers everyday to reach an area with Internet connection to attend online classes from their remote coastal villages in Maharashtra after they were hit first COVID-19 lockdown and then cyclone Nisarga.
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Millions Of Students Risk Falling Through Gaps As Schools Go Online
The coronavirus has pushed schools all over the world to go online as new waves of infections keep emerging. In India, a country where the gaps in access to education and the Internet were already vast, poor families are struggling to stay the course.
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PUBG Adversely Affecting Students, Ban It: Gujarat Government To Schools
The Gujarat government on Tuesday issued a circular asking district authorities to ensure a complete ban on online multi-player game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, popularly called PUBG.
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New Online Game To Help Counter Cybercrime Against Children
In a bid to counter cybercrime against children, including threat posed by online games such as the 'blue whale' and 'momo' challenge, the government has launched its own game application. Known as the 'cyber trivia' app, it would include a set of multiple choice questions which will help the kids learn ways to deal with strangers on the internet, ...
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Unicef Releases Report on Child Online Protection in India
As a result of "deep proliferation" of Internet, offline forms of crime and violence against children are finding new platforms online.
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UNICEF Releases Report On Online Protection Of Kids In India
UNICEF on Thursday released a report on 'Child Online Protection in India', which maps the existing laws on safeguarding children from online exploitation, flags the lacunae in them and puts forward recommendations to ensure cyber safety.
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Can India Catch Up to Global Standards of Digital Safety and Security?
The Internet connects over 2.5 billion users worldwide, offering opportunities to young people to connect, communicate, educate, and ultimately expand their horizons. In India, however, several socio-economic disparities along with other divisions, based on gender or race, affect equal access to and safe usage of digital platforms, widening the exi...
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Maharashtra: Forced To Travel 50 Km For Online Classes, Children Reach Out To NCPCR For Internet
The National Commission for Protection Child Rights, in turn, ensured that the connectivity is restored in the fastest possible manner by reaching out to cellular companies and the district magistrate of the area, NCPCR Chairman Priyank Kanoongo said.
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Forced To Travel 50 km For Online Classes, Students Write To Child Rights Body, Demand Internet
Around 200 children were forced to travel 50 kilometers everyday to reach an area with Internet connection to attend online classes from their remote coastal villages in Maharashtra after they were hit first COVID-19 lockdown and then cyclone Nisarga.
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Millions Of Students Risk Falling Through Gaps As Schools Go Online
The coronavirus has pushed schools all over the world to go online as new waves of infections keep emerging. In India, a country where the gaps in access to education and the Internet were already vast, poor families are struggling to stay the course.
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PUBG Adversely Affecting Students, Ban It: Gujarat Government To Schools
The Gujarat government on Tuesday issued a circular asking district authorities to ensure a complete ban on online multi-player game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, popularly called PUBG.
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New Online Game To Help Counter Cybercrime Against Children
In a bid to counter cybercrime against children, including threat posed by online games such as the 'blue whale' and 'momo' challenge, the government has launched its own game application. Known as the 'cyber trivia' app, it would include a set of multiple choice questions which will help the kids learn ways to deal with strangers on the internet, ...
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Unicef Releases Report on Child Online Protection in India
As a result of "deep proliferation" of Internet, offline forms of crime and violence against children are finding new platforms online.
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UNICEF Releases Report On Online Protection Of Kids In India
UNICEF on Thursday released a report on 'Child Online Protection in India', which maps the existing laws on safeguarding children from online exploitation, flags the lacunae in them and puts forward recommendations to ensure cyber safety.
