Mohammed bin Rashid: We aim to ensure a healthy and positive digital environment for our generations
Launching the National Policy for Digital Wellbeing
Mohammed bin Rashid witnessed the launch of the "Charter for Positive Digital Citizenship Values and Behaviors".
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His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, adopted the National Policy for Digital Quality of Life, which aims to create a safe digital society in the UAE, and to promote a positive identity with meaningful digital interaction.
Vice President of the State: Our generations are spending more time in virtual reality than in real life. Enhancing the quality of digital life in the Emirati society through specific policies, initiatives and projects. |
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum stressed the importance of enhancing the quality of digital life in the Emirati society with quality policies, initiatives and projects that keep pace with the emerging changes in the local and global digital world, by stimulating the digital community and enhancing the leadership of the UAE to reach more advanced ranks within the digital competitiveness index. In which the country ranks first in the Arab world and ranks 12th in the world in three main axes: technology, readiness for the future, and knowledge.
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum said: “We have adopted the National Policy for the Quality of Digital Life .. The goal is to ensure a healthy and positive digital environment for our generations who now spend more time in virtual reality than in real life… the goal is to make their reality positive, productive and safe.”
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, accompanied by Lieutenant General Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, and His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs, and in the presence of a number of ministers, the launch of the "Charter of Values Positive Digital Citizenship Behaviors », which frames the set of values and behaviors for positive digital citizenship in the United Arab Emirates, represented in 10 items that Internet users in the country undertake, as part of building digital skills and commitment to positive behaviors to ensure responsible and conscious participation in the digital world.
The ten articles revolve around: Emirati heritage, digital reputation, respect for others, positive investment, good treatment, digital privacy, credibility of publishing, responsibility and regulations, digital ethics, and balanced use.
The national policy for the quality of digital life that was prepared and adopted by the Digital Quality of Life Council in partnership with the concerned authorities and institutions aims to enhance the quality of digital life in the UAE through four main axes: Digital Capabilities: Building the capabilities of community members and enabling them to use the Internet in a conscious and sound manner. And digital behavior: promoting positive digital values and behaviors, and digital content: preparing guides to direct society towards the use of positive content, and finally digital communication: protecting users from the risks resulting from dealing with suspicious or piracy entities.
This is in the context of reaching the goal of achieving coexistence with virtual societies with Zayed's values.
The policy also includes 11 qualitative initiatives that have been linked to the four axes of the policy concerned with enhancing the quality of life of members of the UAE community in the digital world by providing a safe digital environment to protect users, raise their level of awareness, and build their digital capabilities and skills to deal with the digital world in a positive and sound manner.
The adoption of the national policy for the quality of digital life comes in addition to the launch of four initiatives that have been adopted to enhance the quality of digital life in the UAE, namely: the knowledge platform for the quality of digital life, the charter of positive digital citizenship values and behaviors, the initiative for the quality of digital life approach, and the “Category” platform for evaluating the content of games. Electronic, which was prepared and adopted by the Digital Life Quality Council in partnership with the concerned authorities and institutions;
To achieve the best quality of digital life in the UAE society and around the world.
The "Charter of Positive Digital Citizenship Values and Behaviors" keeps pace with the changes that the world is witnessing at an accelerating pace in light of the era of digital governance, artificial intelligence and smart cities, and by virtue of the tolerance, coexistence and noble human values and pluralism of the Emirati society. Digital and fostering a safe and positive digital society.
An initiative was also launched: the Knowledge Platform for the Quality of Digital Life (
www.digitalwellbeing.ae
), which is an interactive and integrated electronic portal that includes, in its first phase, awareness-raising content to build the digital capabilities of community members, especially students, parents and teachers, in addition to people of determination and senior citizens. By providing all kinds of tools and resources in the knowledge portal for the quality of digital life that includes: advice and guidelines for parents, teachers and students, parental control and family supervision tools, awareness of digital citizenship, awareness of the latest common applications among children, training resources and digital culture to develop digital skills, and reporting on Digital incidents, in addition to weekly updated newsletters.
His Highness was also briefed on the initiative "Digital Quality of Life Curriculum" presented by the Ministry of Education, with the aim of including digital citizenship topics in the curricula from kindergarten to the twelfth grade, in several subjects such as moral education, social studies, Islamic education, and the Arabic language for non-native speakers. By design, technology, computer science, creative design and innovation.
It also aims to design and publish integrated content for parents to raise awareness of preserving digital privacy, know the dangers surrounding them, how to protect themselves and their children from it, and enhance digital safety, in addition to building the digital capabilities of teachers and administrators by providing specialized courses in the field of information technology.
The "
Sannif
" platform was launched by the Communications Regulatory Authority and Digital Government (
www.sannif.ae
), which gives parents the opportunity to learn about electronic games, their content and nature, before presenting them to children. The platform provides the ability to search for any electronic game. Its presence in the database will show the risks it may contain, which helps the parent choose the most suitable games for his children.
10 government agencies
The Digital Life Quality Council was established by a decision of the Council of Ministers, and includes in its membership 10 government agencies, headed by Lieutenant General Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, and Minister of Community Development Hessa bint Essa Buhumaid, Vice President.
Among its tasks, the Council is responsible for developing and following up the implementation of policies and programs to ensure the quality of digital life for citizens, disseminating values and purposeful interactions in the digital world, positive communication with others, healthy digital behavior, raising digital awareness for all segments of society, in addition to encouraging the meaningful use of technology.
The policy aims to lay the main foundations for enhancing the quality of digital life and stimulating the digital society.
The knowledge platform for the digital quality of life is an integrated and awareness portal for building the digital capabilities of community members.
The Digital Life Quality Curriculum initiative seeks to include digital citizenship issues in school curricula.
- «Class» gives the possibility for parents to learn about their children's electronic games, their content and nature.
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