Telenor employees to teach kids about safe internet practices

Telenor employees will volunteer and go through special training and will be able to counsel kids about safe internet practices as part of the expert teams under the Cyberscout program of the Bulgarian Safer Internet Center.

A total of 23 company employees volunteered to go through the training course. Part of them will join the Telenor-supported Cyberscout program, which is in its third year. The Telenor volunteers will form the iCrew team and will join the kids’ trainings later this fall and will continue with the program well into 2018.

The Cyberscout program encompasses 5th-grade students from all over Bulgaria who pass two-day trainings and then start raising awareness among their friends and other students aged 9 to 15 on the most common threats and risks in the internet and the best ways to mitigate them. In 2017, the Cyberscout proram is expected to train scouts from 22 cities and towns across Bulgaria.

The Telenor-Safer Internet Center partnership, as well as the new volunteer initiative is part of Telenor efforts dedicated to children safety online. So far, tens of thousands of Bulgarian school kids has been trained about the risks of sharing private information on the internet and on the ways to safely surf the web and communicate online.

In 2017, Telenor won the BAPRA Awards 2017 competition in the Marketing with a Cause category for its safer internet initiatives, including the Search for Emo online game, the Online Bullying Handbook, and with the Be Smart, Use Heart and Cyberscout educational programs.