Hi, my name is Ebuka Nkoro.
I'm from Nigeria.
And first I would like to take the Internet Society for the very great
privilege to be selected as an Early Career Fellow of the Internet Society.
Today, I'm gonna be discussing on how
we can keep children safe online here in Nigeria.
And that's basically what my project is all about.
So my project is geared towards empowering
children for safety and equal access.
The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.
This was made in 1997, and we understand that children are a very good part
of our Internet ecosystem are one of the basic users and they deserve
to be protected and safe online.
This is why my project is geared towards focusing
on an enhanced charter, online safety in Nigeria to awareness programs
and deployment of safe application browsers, which contribute to the UN
goals that cause one enter exploitation and even the ISOC goals that makes,
forward to protecting safe users.
in the Internet. The purpose is to address the four Cs as addressed by
the ITU, the content risk, the content reach, the conduct risk and the commercial
risks and partnering with stakeholders in the Internet ecosystem and
stakeholders in the educational sector, others in society to ensure safe Internet
usage for children here in Nigeria.
Some of the effects of these online risks are witnessed among children, whose
poor social life, decreased confidence, addictions, poor academic activity.
I experienced this first time after the pandemic at the return of schools, I
noticed that most of these children have been exploited and they do not have the
required awarenesses to keep themselves safe online from online predators.
This is why the objectives of my project
is geared towards creating awareness programs that enables children
to be safe from online bullies, sexual exploit—people that exploit them sexually
use of created apps and good password habits and their awareness of digital
footprint that makes it possible for them to avoid nudity and stop sharing
nude pictures of themselves online, which can in the future,
mark them and their reputations.
And then the second objective is to build a safe such browser, which is
very environment friendly for children secure and most importantly, it blocks
and filters malicious content from various websites for children's use.
And most, especially it has a learning experience that children can also
participate in this browser design in such a way that when any user or when
a child logged into it, the dark website and pornographic
site and site that exploit them are automatically blocked so that they have
a safe learning experience or safe user
experience while using the browser.
Furthermore, I've been able to empower 517 children here in Abuja, Nigeria,
and I'm printing awareness
posters in their schools to keep them safe to create this
behavioral mindset among them and partnering with the Nigerian communications
commission, other civil societies in Nigeria, and also contributing to the new
draft, the new draft here, it gets towards keeping children safe, online.
The draft from 2003 is being amended to increase this safety of children.
And most especially we are developing the safe search browser for these children to be safe online
Children are the future.
And that is why we have to protect them.
We have to guide them and give them digital access and safety as a user Internet experience.
Finally, I'm calling on you today at the Symposium I will
discuss on various ways we can
keep these children safe online, but however I ask for your help
job opportunities to get more experience and more projects
working and keeping children safe.
And I'm also asking for funding to complete more awareness programs
and most, especially the safe search browser with these
I know we can do more and help children to be safe online.
All over the world.
Even here in Nigeria, children deserve our best because we're once children too,
and I hope to collaborating with you and giving the best out of this project.
Thank you very much for listening.
I look forward to seeing symposium and I'll be taking questions
and any other collaborative insights that you have for me.
Thank you.