The National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Egypt (NTRA)
organized a number of awareness
seminars for the primary-level students of Egyptian-Japanese Schools in Cairo and Giza.
These seminars were held in line with the State’s policy to expand support for
Egyptian-Japanese Schools as a leading experience in the process of developing education.
The seminars were also organized to contribute to preparing a tech-savvy
generation capable of using digital services within the digital transformation
process witnessed all over Egypt, and to implement joint cooperation frames
between NTRA and Egyptian-Japanese Schools.
Furthermore, the seminars aim to jointly raise teachers’ as well as
students’awareness of several telecom scopes; meanwhile, they add to the many
awareness campaigns carried out by NTRA which seek to raise the societal
awareness for all segments of Egypt’s community,
particularly youth and children who are deemed among the heaviest users of
internet as well as social media platforms and applications.
This series of seminars also aimed to raise awareness of cybersecurity basic
principles and how to protect e-accounts and devices against penetrations.
They also entailed introducing data and information security essentials such as
creating strong passwords, two-step verification methods, and the right
measures of handling fraud messages, where verbal explanations as well as
interactive games were used to make sure students
can easily understand the information provided.
Moreover, the seminars included an awareness lecture for parents about
NTRA’s role to protect users’ rights, in addition to introducing digital services
like mobile wallets and their importance, and how to escalate telecom complaints.
During the seminars, the features as well as benefits of My NTRA interactive app
were reviewed, while the optimum parental control measures and pragmatic
steps that should be taken to protect children against the risks of being
excessively exposed to electronic games were also identified.
It’s noteworthy that NTRA had organized this year more than 100 awareness
seminars for more than 40 thousand organizations and individuals from youth,
children, women, elderly and people of determination across 15 governorates across Egypt