The first awareness campaign against cyber bullying, held yesterday, within the activities of the third national week to prevent bullying, held parents responsible for the exposure of their children to any type of electronic abuse, which is one of the most serious bullying.
Participants in the conference stressed that mental health and building a balanced personality and interrelated family relationship, is the first line of defense in the protection of children of this kind of threats, at a time when mothers, who participated in the conference took the opportunity to alert the Ministry of Education to the need to activate the Council of Mothers, to ensure cooperation The two parties shall take measures on their part to protect students in the educational environment, make them aware of the dangers of bullying and exploit it in all its forms.
The conference included the launch of Etisalat Group, the first digital chat platform built with artificial intelligence tools, to provide a virtual simulation of the e-bullying experience.
The conference, organized by Etisalat Group, in cooperation with the Ministry of Education, under the patronage of Her Highness Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, President of the General Women's Union and President of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, President of the Family Development Foundation (Umm Al Emarat), said that parents should They are friends of their children, before they are the source of educational authority.
Hanadi Al Yafei, director of the Child Safety Department at the Supreme Council for Family Affairs in Sharjah, said that the gap through which the electronic bullies pass is in isolation of children from their parents, stressing the need to play with children with electronic games, because this creates a kind of convergence, encourages the child to be honest with me He ordered him to take any bad attitude.
She added that there is no point in preventing or denying children to play and communicate electronically, but that friendship, dialogue and transparency between parents and children should be the first means of prevention and protection, because it is the first line of defense.
For her part, the expert at the Ministry of Education, Moza Al-Shoumi, to form a specialized training nucleus in the training of teaching staff on how to apply the methods of educating students to repel e-bullying, in addition to the preparation of educational material approved by the National Committee to combat bullying, to serve as a clear reference for educators .
The President of the Emirates Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child, Faisal Al-Shammari, stressed the need to impose controls on the use of artificial intelligence techniques, which have become an effective weapon in the hands of cyber attackers, pointing to the role of the Ministry of Interior, which closed many technical accelerators, as well as the efforts of the Ministry of Justice, which established A laboratory to identify abuses and passive exploitation of modern technologies and applications.
The e-security expert at the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA), Eng. Abdulaziz Al-Zarouni, stressed the need to prepare in the coming years for further technological developments, which e-abuse experts will use in order to threaten the interests of communities, especially children and adolescents, who are preparing the future of construction and development.
Intentional and hostile behavior
Cyber bullying is a set of actions that use information and communication technologies to support intentional, repetitive and hostile behavior, by an individual or group, which aims to harm a person, other people or countries.
Internet service and mobile technologies, such as web pages and discussion groups, as well as instant messaging or SMS, are used with the intention of hurting someone else. Examples of cyberbullying include communications that seek to intimidate, control, manipulate, repress, and discredit.