Add "fences" to protect children in cyberspace
The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) has just issued a "Code of Conduct on Child Protection in the Online Environment", regulating the behavior and responsibilities of individuals and organizations when participating in online activities.
The Code of Conduct will help regulate people's behavior, thereby creating a positive and healthy online environment for children. At the same time, it aims to build standards of language, behavior, and conduct for Internet users, thereby promoting a safe and civilized online environment, contributing to protecting and supporting children to interact healthily and creatively on the internet.
The Code also aims to raise public awareness of the risks children face when using the Internet; emphasizing the role and responsibility of parents, caregivers, teachers and the whole society in joining hands to protect children online.
Along with that, promote reflection and notification of harmful content and child abuse behaviors on the internet to the authorities.
"Code of conduct on child protection in the online environment", is built on the basis of referring to international experience on regulations on child protection in the online environment, referring to the framework of other codes that have been issued.
At the same time, it also comes from the reality of incidents that have occurred on the internet environment, the gaps between reality and the current legal corridor on protecting children online.
In addition to the general rules applicable to everyone, the code also provides rules for five groups of subjects: Parents, childcare workers and teachers; users on the network environment; organizations, media businesses and content creators on the network environment; Internet service providers and platform providers and children.
A code of conduct on child protection online is a necessary next step to raise knowledge and awareness about child protection online.
Putting the rules into practice early
Vietnam has many legal documents and regulations to protect children in cyberspace, typically the Law on Children, the program to protect and support children to interact healthily and creatively in the online environment for the period 2021 - 2025.
Recently, Decree 147 of the Government stipulates measures to implement the management, provision and use of Internet services and online information, also has many regulations focusing on protecting children's safety in cyberspace.
Or at the end of 2024, the Department of Information Security (Ministry of Information and Communications) also launched the document "Handbook for protecting children in the online environment 2024". This is one of the important solutions that the Department of Information Security has deployed to enhance digital skills for the generation of digital citizens of Vietnam.
In order for the code to be put into practice soon, experts say that, in addition to propaganda work to raise awareness and encourage people to apply it, there still needs to be stricter sanctions for organizations and businesses providing Internet services, platforms, and online content. Only then can we control the source of information and content provided to children.
The contents of the "Code of Conduct on Child Protection in the Online Environment" must be integrated into propaganda and awareness-raising activities, through information channels with many new forms, easy to understand, easy to absorb for each specific audience.
Capacity building training activities on child online protection need to be organized in depth, through projects in each region, locality, school, etc.
In particular, based on the information provided in the code of conduct, the coordination of families, schools and society, along with children's proactive approach, will be prerequisites for forming a digital shield for children in cyberspace...
According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), in 2023, there were more than 533,200 reports of online child sexual abuse images/videos related to Vietnam. Vietnam ranked 3rd in the ASEAN region (after Indonesia and the Philippines) in terms of warnings about cyber safety for children. This situation sounds the alarm about the urgent need to protect children from risks in cyberspace.
Source: https://kinhtedothi.vn/bao-ve-tre-em-tren-moi-truong-mang-bang-quy-tac-ung-xu.html
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