The National Program for Happiness and Quality of Life in the framework of the Digital Safety for Children initiative, concluded the interactive camps for students of the UAE schools with 2000 children. It focused on enhancing digital safety for children, and establishing the safe and sound use of the Internet and digital world applications. The National Quality of Life Strategy 2031 was adopted by the Cabinet under the chairmanship of HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai. The initiative was supported and sponsored by HH Lt. General Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister. Interior Minister.
The Digital Child Safety Initiative aims to help parents manage their children's digital lives and face what they are exposed to through social networking sites and applications, and make them aware of how to use them properly to ensure access to a child-friendly digital world in order to achieve the goals of the National Quality of Life 2031 strategy by establishing Established a positive and safe digital society through four main components: interactive children's camps, a knowledge portal, training workshops for parents, and a digital safety support line.
The interactive camps organized by the program in partnership with several government agencies, including the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Education, have been one of the most prominent initiatives in support of the Digital Child Safety Initiative, and aimed to enhance the quality of digital life for students in the UAE schools, and build their capacity to meet the challenges of the digital world and encourage them to use The Internet positively and safely, educating and qualifying teachers and parents in ways to meet these challenges.
The interactive camps, which support the efforts of the UAE government in enhancing the digital safety of children and improving the quality of their digital life, aimed at educating students in an attractive educational method that ensures equipping them with the skills and foundations of digital life management in a meaningful and informed manner, and introducing them to the UAE laws that ensure reducing the negative effects of the digital world, and how to deal with challenges. Facing them, leaving a positive digital footprint contributes to the formation of good role models and encourages meaningful digital communities.
Interactive camps educated children and school students about the dangers of the digital world and social media, and ways to protect them by providing them with the skills and foundations of safe and informed browsing of digital media, and urged children to use and disseminate meaningful content.
The Minister of State for Happiness and Quality of Life, Director General of the Prime Minister's Office, Ohood Bint Khalfan Al Roumi, stressed that promoting digital quality is an important part of the integrated system of quality of life in the UAE, and one of the objectives of the National Quality of Life Strategy 2031, pointing to the importance of enhancing the quality of digital life for children And equipping them with the skills to enable them to maintain their digital integrity.