Safer internet campaign launched

In a bid to combat cyber exploitation of children, IT Minister Austin Gatt yesterday announced an intensive awareness campaign as students marked Safer Internet Day.

Dr Gatt also launched an information package, which will be distributed to all students from Year Four in primary schools right up to Year Five in secondary schools, as well as their teachers and parents.

Over 43,000 information packages and interactive CDs will start being distributed to parents and students this week, while posters, DVDs and CDs will be circulated in schools.

Attending an event organised by Aġenzija Appoġġ at the Playmobil Funpark in Ħal Far, Dr Gatt said that while children's education was sacred for the government, so was their security.