Iran’s Home-Made Application Capable of Protecting Children in Cyberspace
"Monitoring children's activities and decreasing the harms of cyberspace for minor users will be possible by using the Iran-made application," Meysam Sadeqi, the managing director of the knowledge-based 'Houshmand Fanavaran Naqmeh' company, told ANA on the sidelines of Asreh Omid Event.
He noted that his company has developed 10 knowledge-based products in the past 13 years of its activities, and said, "One of the products of the company is in the field of training children on how to use the cyberspace. In fact, we developed an application to control children in the cyberspace. The excessive use of smart phones by children is a problem that families are facing these days. Another problem is the content that children search for in the cyberspace."
"We provide families with the information on the contents of children's searches in the cyberspace. We also inform the parents about their kids' activities in the social networks, and also, every second, we send to the parents the child's location through the phone's GPS system," Sadeqi said.
"Actually, families will be able to fully control both the moral and physical safety of their children by this system," he concluded.
Children are spending more time online than ever before. And they’re getting there sooner. Around the world, a child goes online for the first time every half second, according to the UNICEF.
Cyberbullying and other forms of peer-to-peer violence can affect young people each time they log in to social media or instant messaging platforms. When browsing the internet, children may be exposed to hate speech and violent content – including messages that incite self-harm and even suicide.
Children can also be put at risk when tech companies breach their privacy to collect data for marketing purposes. Child-targeted marketing through apps – and the excessive screen time it often results in – can compromise a child’s healthy development.
Islamic Azad University's "second step of revolution" under the title of Asreh Omid Event was held in Tehran's Mosalla from May 29 to June 01, 2022 to exhibit new achievements, equipments and products in the technological and innovation arenas in line with opening new windows towards strengthening the idea of creating ground for knowledge-based businesses at the 40th anniversary of establishment of the Islamic Azad University.
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