Assam: DPS Numaligarh Hosts Workshop on Cybercrime Awareness for Students

NUMALIGARH: In an era where the digital realm increasingly influences every aspect of life, Delhi Public School Numaligarh organized a pivotal workshop on cybercrime awareness on Thursday. The session was led by Abhishek Kabra, a research scholar from the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism at Tezpur University, who is working on children’s safety in cyberspace.

The workshop was designed to address the growing threats posed by cybercrimes, which impact children due to their frequent and unregulated use of digital platforms. Covering a range of critical topics such as hacking, cyberbullying, grooming and cyber sexual abuse, phishing, and online fraud, Kabra emphasized the importance of proactive measures to ensure children are safe in the digital world.

He further illustrated his point with a light-hearted analogy, stating, “The way cybercrimes are rising feels like Scott Boland’s outside the off-stump line. It keeps on coming one after another. But we need to make sure when to leave it, when to hit it, and when to play. Else, we may just nick it to the slips.”

He said, “Awareness is the first and most powerful line of defence against cybercrimes. Just like learning to cross the road safely, digital safety must become second nature to our children.”

Notably, Kabra has conducted cybercrime awareness workshops for more than 1,000 students in the state and aims to effectively communicate the netiquettes in digital space.

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