TRA Champions Online Safety for Children With New Initiative

TRA Champions Online Safety for Children With New Initiative

The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) Bahrain is working to raise awareness among young people, their parents, and teachers of potential online dangers, including cyberbullying, and ways they can minimize risk. The TRA’s Online Safety Initiative builds on the successful Cyber Safety program conducted in November 2022 to further encourage responsible ICT usage.

The TRA, in collaboration with the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) Global Program on Child Online Protection, has worked closely to highlight the importance of this key issue.

The Child Online Protection training sessions, aimed at enlightening educators and youth organizations on how to safeguard children and educate them about their online rights, were held with the participation of over 300 educators across Bahrain from both private and public schools.

The program gave educators deeper insight into online risks and how to create a safer online school experience for students. Moreover, it assisted educators in identifying the types of threats that children encounter when exploring the digital world, such as cyberbullying, misinformation, and inappropriate content.

Educators also discovered preventive measures to mitigate potential online threats and built on their knowledge of how to respond to and disclose an issue if students are harmed online.

“Young people are more vulnerable to online threats during the