Improve your cyber safety knowledge with Safety Café Vietnam

Launch of Safety Café Vietnam initiative

In the context of the internet boom, the internet environment is a diverse space where people can search for anything they love. However, for young people, especially children, it is necessary and urgent to raise awareness of cyber safety to avoid unpredictable consequences that adversely affect their psychology and development. children’s development.

On October 7th, Meta Corporation in cooperation with Vietnam Internet Association (VIA) and CyberKid Vietnam officially kicked off the Safety Café Vietnam event. This is an initiative to bring necessary knowledge about online safety and privacy to internet users in Vietnam, especially teenagers, through an online safety experiment at a cafe space. youthful pop-up style.

At the seminar “Protecting youth safety in cyberspace”, representatives of the Ministry of Information and Communications and the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs shared data and information on the use of online platforms in Vietnam. Male. Accordingly, the number of social network users is up to 77 million people, of which the Facebook platform accounts for the majority with 70.4 million users.

Ms. Jessie Li, Asia-Pacific Safety Policy Manager, Meta shared her observations as well as Meta’s efforts in protecting children’s online safety on Meta’s platforms, especially Facebook and Instagram. “The Safety Café Vietnam initiative is Meta’s constant effort in building and contributing to the Facebook pillar with safety and digital literacy (#fb4Safety and digital literacy) under the “Facebook for Vietnam” campaign . Jessie said.

Experimenting with online safety in a youthful style

It is estimated that nearly 1,000 visitors came to visit and experience online safety research at Safety Café Vietnam during the 3 days of the event. Here, young people and students will participate in a series of Training Programs on cybersecurity skills hosted by CyberKid Vietnam.

Safety Café Vietnam space is designed in a modern and youthful style to attract young people. In addition, here visitors will also be prepared with free food.

CyberKid organization director – Ms. Nguyen Nhu Quynh shared: “Through two training sessions that CyberKid hosted within the framework of Safety Café Vietnam, we want to bring to young people effective methods of using the internet. , along with the necessary skills to protect yourself against 7 threats in cyberspace.”