Facebook Helps Indians Experience Digital Technology Safely With The Digital Literacy Library

At the South Asia Safety Summit, Facebook reported The Digital Literacy Library would be soon set up in 6 Indian languages in an attempt to train 300,000 Indians in digital safety. These languages include Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada.

The South Asia Safety Summit is an important event with the presence of over 70 organizations coming from Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, India, and Afghanistan. Also, the Minister Maneka Gandhi of Union Women and Child Development (WCD) took part in the event.

The topics discussed in the event are diverse, like technology, digital safety or protect users from unhealthy information online.

Facebook, Cyber Peace Foundation and Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi cooperated to hold a child safety hackathon in order to look for better ways to protect children when online. The venue is at the India Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi.

Moreover, the outcomes gained at the hackathon are shared with NGO organizations. As a result, they can protect children more and more effectively.

Facebook’s Global head for Safety, Antigone Davis further confirmed the seriousness in fighting online abuse by the member organizations as well as local experts. Until the end of 2018, 300,000 people will be expectedly trained digital safety. Of those are mainly youth and women.

Not only that, victims from the violations will be supported by NCMEC (or the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children for long).

Facebook hoped that the Digital Literacy Library would help over 200 million online users in India experience digital technology in a safer way.