Google India launches Web Rangers campaign for safer web
Google India has announced the launch of Web Rangers as part of The India Digital Literacy and Internet Safety Campaign. This is a program that empowers teens to promote the safe use of the Internet among their peers. Web Rangers will provide training to help teens create their cyber safety campaign to enable themselves and their peers think about their online behavior and how to keep each other safe online. The program will take young people aged between 14 -17, representing 50 schools in Hyderabad, Bangalore and New Delhi through training workshops that will equip them with knowledge in online safety. This program also introduces a contest where students across the country will be given twelve weeks to create and run their own online safety campaigns. These youth-created online or offline educational campaigns can take any form, including online videos and other social media content, sketches and in-school events. The winners of the contest will be anno...