October 6, launching the "Not Alone" campaign to protect children in cyberspace

The Digital Trust Alliance will launch the "Not Alone" campaign on October 6.

Informing the press tonight, October 1, the Department of Cyber Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention (A05 - Ministry of Public Security ) said that the Digital Trust Alliance will launch the campaign "Not alone" to fight online kidnapping.

This is also an activity in the series of events of the Hanoi Convention Signing Ceremony taking place on October 25 and 26.

Young people are vulnerable to all forms of seduction, fraud, manipulation and kidnapping through cyberspace.

Many unfortunate incidents that have occurred recently have raised the urgent need for a national communication campaign to raise social awareness about online safety, especially among students, teenagers and young people.

The Hanoi Convention - The United Nations Convention against Cybercrime is an important document aimed at international and transnational efforts to prevent and combat cybercrime, including luring, fraud, “kidnapping”, and trafficking of children and adolescents.

The Digital Trust Alliance was launched within the framework of the conference "KOL with the era of national growth" on August 18. *Photo: Organizing Committee*

The campaign aims to: Raise awareness of the risks of cyber-trafficking, manipulation, fraud, kidnapping and human trafficking targeting children and adolescents.

Equip yourself with online safety skills, identify tricks, how to prevent, avoid, handle and report dangerous situations.

At the same time, the campaign spreads the message "Together we are safe online" so that children and adolescents always remember that they are "not alone" when facing acts of seduction, manipulation, fraud, "kidnapping" in cyberspace and remind families, schools, online platforms and society to always accompany, protect, and not let children and adolescents face risks alone in cyberspace.

The campaign will be launched from October 6 to November 30, hosted by the Digital Trust Alliance. Department A05 will coordinate with the following units: National Cyber Security Association, Hanoi People's Committee.

The event also had the support of cross-border platforms such as: Tiktok Vietnam, Meta, Google, and funds: Childfund Vietnam, Plan International, Save the Children Vietnam, World Vision Vietnam...

One of the campaign's activities is the Online Safety Festival taking place on October 18 and 19, at Dong Kinh Nghia Thuc Square (Hoan Kiem Lake area, Hanoi) to raise awareness through virtual reality (VR/AR) experiences simulating online seduction situations, participants choose how to respond; outdoor exhibitions (infographics, real stories of victims who have been seduced online, sharing digital safety handbooks...) so that children, teenagers, parents have a space to interact directly with the community...

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