Dear
sisters, do not upload your pictures…” – this is a message that one
often comes across on Facebook these days with a graphic representation
of how a girl’s photographs can be misused. This, apart from fake
profiles, obscene posts, fraud mails and so on, has plagued the web
world and scarred real lives.
HT FILE PHOTO Ahaan Foundation and Yuvonmensh Pratishthan have launched ‘Responsible Netism for Cyber Safe Thane’.
Not that internet and technology are always bad. A lot of good has come out of the internet – instant information, quick contact and easy access to anything and everything. But one needs to exercise caution. However, it’s seldom done like, say, the statutory warning on cigarette packets being ignored by smokers.
For this very purpose, Ahaan Foundation in association with Yuvonmensh Pratishthan has launched the movement of ‘Responsible Netism for Cyber Safe Thane’.
They have also come up with a website www.responsiblenetism.org.
HT FILE PHOTO Ahaan Foundation and Yuvonmensh Pratishthan have launched ‘Responsible Netism for Cyber Safe Thane’.
Not that internet and technology are always bad. A lot of good has come out of the internet – instant information, quick contact and easy access to anything and everything. But one needs to exercise caution. However, it’s seldom done like, say, the statutory warning on cigarette packets being ignored by smokers.
For this very purpose, Ahaan Foundation in association with Yuvonmensh Pratishthan has launched the movement of ‘Responsible Netism for Cyber Safe Thane’.
They have also come up with a website www.responsiblenetism.org.
The movement and the website were launched at the Narendra Ballal
Hall on June 26 in the presence of eminent personalities from various
fields like Achyut Godbole, Dr. Anuradha Sovani, Kaushal Inamdar, Satish
Rajwade, Sandeep Kulkarni.
The idea was formulated around eight months back when members of Ahaan Foundation, a registered trust aimed at mobilizing and empowering people towards self-enhancement, transition and evolution, were carrying out sessions in schools and colleges about the impact of social networking. The fact that 387 cases, perhaps just the tip of the iceberg, were registered with the Thane cyber crime cell also triggered the movement.
“We are not against social networking or internet. Technology is for us but we should not let technology control us. We wanted to do something long-term and wanted to create awareness about the problems faced online from cyber bullying to harassment and how one can be a responsible netizen,” said Sonali Pathankar from Ahaan foundation.
The foundation has three appeals to make – incorporate the content on responsible netism into computer science from standard VI to standard X, pressurize service providers to inform their buyers about constructive and responsible use of internet and pressurize government to implement effective filters on various search engines and sites to protect us from internet abuse and harassment.
There’s another video – a google chrome ad – that shows how an artist from Tamil Nadu who used the web to bring the dying art of Tanjore paintings back to life and became a successful businessman eventually. The ad’s apt tagline sums up how the web should be used – the web is what you make of it.
The idea was formulated around eight months back when members of Ahaan Foundation, a registered trust aimed at mobilizing and empowering people towards self-enhancement, transition and evolution, were carrying out sessions in schools and colleges about the impact of social networking. The fact that 387 cases, perhaps just the tip of the iceberg, were registered with the Thane cyber crime cell also triggered the movement.
“We are not against social networking or internet. Technology is for us but we should not let technology control us. We wanted to do something long-term and wanted to create awareness about the problems faced online from cyber bullying to harassment and how one can be a responsible netizen,” said Sonali Pathankar from Ahaan foundation.
The foundation has three appeals to make – incorporate the content on responsible netism into computer science from standard VI to standard X, pressurize service providers to inform their buyers about constructive and responsible use of internet and pressurize government to implement effective filters on various search engines and sites to protect us from internet abuse and harassment.
There’s another video – a google chrome ad – that shows how an artist from Tamil Nadu who used the web to bring the dying art of Tanjore paintings back to life and became a successful businessman eventually. The ad’s apt tagline sums up how the web should be used – the web is what you make of it.
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