J Initiative, a child online protection and Digital Literacy advocacy group is representing Ghana at this Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Child Safety Summit dubbed ‘Google-Facebook Child Safety Summit’ in Dublin, Ireland.
The summit which is expected to take place on the 27-28th of April at the Google and Facebook Europe Headquarters in Dublin aims at bringing together academics, NGO’s & charities, politicians, Googlers and Facebookers to share expertise, progress, new plans and products.
The Summit aside assembling safety experts and organizations from Europe, Middle East and other African countries will focus on; fighting Child Sexual Abuse Online, discuss digital literacy projects, showcase child safety tools & products and many more.
Commenting on the summit, the Executive Director of J Initiative, Madam Awo Aidam Amenyah said: “We are pleased to be taking part in this year’s Summit and most importantly joining Europe,Middle East and other Africa countries to exchange best practices,discuss how we can collectively protect children and young people online and to also put in place proactive measures to guarantee young people’s safety in the ever-changing virtual world”.
We look forward to coming back to Ghana with a lot more innovative resources to ensure that parents, teachers and young people have the needed tools and knowledge they need to make responsible choices online.
“I am happy that Facebook invited me to Child Safety Summit 2017 to Google’s and Facebook Headquarters in Dublin”.
In February this year, J Initiative joined its partners such as World Vision International Ghana, Facebook,Vodafone-Ghana,Tigo Ghana,Media Foundation for West Africa,Opening Learning, and National Communications Authority to celebrate Safer Internet Day 2017 in Ghana. The day emphasized the need for stakeholders working together to better protect children and young people online.
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