Stakeholders urged to address issue of cyber crime in Ghana

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Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans

 Powered by Max Banner Ads It has also called on all stakeholders including the government, telecommunication organizations, civil society groups, religious organizations and other well-meaning Ghanaians to give immediate attention to issues that seek to create a safer internet for Ghanaian digital citizenry. These were contained in a statement signed by Mr Emmanuel Adinkrah, Co-Founder of GISF and issued in Kumasi to mark this year’s World Safer Internet Day celebrations. February 10, every year, has been set aside by the European Commission’s Safer Internet Programme as an internet safer day to create opportunity for all people around the world to engage in making the internet a safer and better place for all users, especially, children and young people. The theme for this year’s celebrations is “Let’s create a better internet together”. The statement said even though the internet and mobile phone technology provided tremendous socio-economic opportunities for education, entertainment and socialization, its negative impacts on the lives of young and vulnerable in society needed immediate attention. The current rate of cybercrimes such as cyber fraud, pornography, identity theft, credit/ATM card fraud, romance scams, sexual grooming, ‘sakawa’, online sexual predators cyber bulling among others should be a concern to all. The statement […]

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