The General Authority for Regulating the Telecommunications Sector, TRA, represented by its subsidiary, the UAE Computer Emergency Response Team, aeCERT, is organising a special training programme for social care workers and specialists at the Ministry of Education under the theme of “The Social Responsibility of Social Workers” to raise awareness of the cyber bullying phenomenon.
The first phase of the programme was held at Regional Centre for Educational Planning at the University of Sharjah on May 25 - 26, and targeted around 110 specialists working at schools in Dubai and the Northern Emirates.
The programme aims to reinforce and enhance the role of social workers in building a complete and coherent system of values on belonging and national identity for students through workshops, and the guiding role in preparing students to meet the needs of sustainable development.
The programme included an introduction to cyber bullying, behaviour in internet usage that may lead to this phenomenon, how it happens, its most dangerous results and threats to both children and adolescents, in addition to discussing the steps that will help prevent other internet threats, and creating a proper policy against cyber bullying at school, home and in the community.
Source: http://gulftoday.ae/portal/44d00b13-c95d-42ea-9d1c-35b1655052be.aspx
