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Pasig LGU, CyberGuardians PH sign MOA for cybersecurity program

Published Nov 11, 2022 03:41 pm

The Pasig City local government signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with CyberGuardians (CG) PH, a non-governmental organization (NGO), to strengthen cybersecurity policies and protect the city’s youth from cybercrimes.

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Among the MOA’s signatories were Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto, Vice Mayor Robert “Dodot” Jaworski Jr., CyberGuardians PH Executive Director Ms. Maria Concepcion T. Sangil, and Councilors Syvel Gupilan and Angelu de Leon.

CyberGuardians PH Chairperson Sister Mary John Mananzan and Father Teodulo Gonzales, along with City Social Welfare and Development (CSWD) Officer-In-Charge Tess Briones were also present at the event.

Photo from CyberGuardians PH FB Page

In cooperation with Microsoft and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foundation, the MOA seeks to establish partnerships between NGOs and local government units (LGUs) in the local implementation of the ASEAN Cybersecurity Skilling Program (ACSP).

Launched last Feb. 24, the ACSP aims to combat cybercrimes such as cyber sexual abuse, cyber exploitation, and cyber bullying by raising awareness, raising awareness on the importance of cybersecurity and building greater cybersecurity knowledge among people in ASEAN.”

According to the ASEAN Foundation, the ACSP involves “training of trainers (ToT)” wherein 560 young people, educators, NGOs, and CSO facilitators in Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam will be taught cybersecurity.

After their training period, they will be able to teach and share their acquired knowledge to around 30,000 underserved youths in the seven countries about “creating a safe, digital ecosystem in ASEAN.”

The ACSP also organizes a regional focus group discussion with cybersecurity experts about issues plaguing the public and private sectors, which will be utilized to create “localized training modules.”

To garner support from the public, the program also involves an online awareness campaign.

Vice Mayor Jaworski expressed his support for initiatives that will help the local government respond to the cybercrimes brought by burgeoning applications and technologies.

“We have been sitting down with the Philippine National Police (PNP)’s Anti-Cybercrime Division, and trying to figure out ways on how to really address this growing problem of not only bullying online, but sexual predators that are there and the sexual abuse that is happening,” he said.

“In recent times also, our city council has conducted several public hearings exposing these really scary happenings and misdeeds in our society today wherein even parents themselves are selling photos and videos of their children,” Jaworski added.

According to the Philippine Kids Online Survey, a study made in 2019 and published in 2021 by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) – Inter-Agency Council Against Child Pornography (IACACP) and United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) Philippines, only one in five children say they feel truly safe online.

As stated in the report, “In total, a little over one in ten (11.6%) of children reported they had been asked to talk about sexual acts online with someone when they did not want to, with a significantly higher percentage of boys (14.1%) than girls (8.9%) reporting having experienced this in the past year. Less than one in ten children reported being asked for sexual information about themselves (7.1%), to do something sexual online (7.7%), or for a photo or video of themselves (7.9%), when they did not want to.”

“In total, one in five of those children who reported some form of unwanted sexual interaction reported an adult in their family was responsible, while approximately one in seven children (15.4%) reported that it was a child (young person under 18) in their family who was responsible,” the report added.

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