Safe Connect Africa
Online safety education and awareness program for African women and children in the digital age
Why online safety awareness program: While the internet has brought so many good things, and the digital age has made so many youths and women to move above poverty line. It has also brought its own risk and dangers
Over Half-a-Billion Africans now have access to the Internet and smartphone usage is on the increase.
COVID 19 has also helped to push more people online, from online banking, socializing, business, etc.
It is no longer possible for most 21st century African citizens to spend a day without their smartphones today. This has enabled opportunities and threats like never before and in ways unimaginable.
Every day, more women and children including men face one online threat or the other ranging from identity theft, cyberbullying and harassment, email scam, financial scam, miss information. This has created urgent need for online safety awareness program
Each African online faces this urgent need to be aware of these online threat and how to identify the strategies and techniques of the internet fraudsters so as to be resilient to them.
These will help all of us to make the full use of technology while staying safe.
Because of the urgent need for Africans to be aware of online threat, Digital and Enterprise Skills Development for African Initiative (DESDAI) created SAFE CONNECT AFRICA to educate and empower African women and children and make them digitally literate and aware of online dangers and threats
Safe Connect Africa is an online safety education and awareness program for Africans which focuses more on women and children in the digital age.
online safety awareness program for Africa:
One of the main objective of the safe connect Africa is to educate people in Africa and create awareness about online safety measures and to show that the internet can be a positive place.
Safe connect Africa online safety awareness programs will cover the following
Internet banking fraud and financial scam awareness
Internet safety awareness program in schools, Communities , online, TV/Radio stations ETC
Identity theft awareness
Cyber bullying and harassment awareness
Email scam awareness
Miss information awareness etc
