Cybersolution Coordinator Urges Youth Minister to support the causeCybersolution National Coordinator, Mr. Segun Olugbile has urged the Ministry of Youth Development to support the Cybersolution cause as youths mostly are the perpetrators and victims of cybercrime.
The Honourable Minister of Youth Development
The distinguished leaders and drivers of the Ministry of Youth Development
The gentlemen and ladies of the Press
On behalf of the board of directors of Cybersolution .We are pleased and honoured for accepting our request for official working visit to Your Excellency’s office today. To us this is a rare privilege and it’s our intention to make this visitation a fruitful and mutually beneficial meeting.
About Us
Global Network for Cybersolution (a.k.a Cybersolution) is an officially inaugurated, non-governmental organization limited by guarantee which is duly registered in Nigeria under the relevant laws.
The organization is inspired by a group of young men and women from diverse fields of practice ranging from Banking, Business, Law, and Information Technology to Tourism. Whose major concerns are proffering awareness and solution to challenges of online criminalities and cyber-abuse in our country, and Africa in emerging general.
Your Excellency,
The Good News
The internet usage among our youths in Nigeria is growing swiftly. It has given rise to new positive opportunities in every field we can think of – be it government, entertainment, business, sports or education.
The Bad News
As you will agree with me sir, there are two sides to a coin. Internet has also given birth to cyber-criminality (i.e. illegal activity committed on the internet) and cyber-abuse (reckless usage of internet platform) mostly perpetuated by young people and youths in our country.
The Ugly News
Global Internet platform has become a veritable tool for perpetuating online or digital crimes against foreigners and businesses, against our children, as well as against our nation.
In Nigeria, this has caused us loss of international reputation and dignity, security risks of our information, our business, and our nation’s critical information systems and infrastructure that come with connecting to a large global network.
Computers today are being misused for illegal activities like advance fee fraud popularly known as 419, child pornography, e-mail espionage, credit card fraud, spams, software piracy and so on, which invade our privacy and offend our senses in Nigeria.
Your Excellency,
Our Institutional Challenges - Cybercrime and Cyber-abuse
As in every human endeavour there are always challenges to overcome. Our cyber challenges as a leading African nation is as diverse as cyberspace itself. However, our emerging cybercrime challenges can be narrowed down as follows:
- Non existing cyber-ingenuity among National Youth leaders and Youth-focused NGOs
i.e absence of National advocacy forum for anti-cybercrime education for drivers of youths-organizations in the country to constantly address the challenges of emerging threats of digital crime as it affect our youths
- Absence of Government Cyber-Policy agenda for Youth Development in the current digital age.
Government does not have a clear cut course of action or guiding principle on protection of Nigeria Youths as regarding positive acquisition of digital knowledge for responsible socio-economic empowerment. Most youths are left at the mercy of non-competent and cybercrime infected training outfit who are themselves ignorantly operating on pirated and nonsecure IT platform.
- Cyber-disoriented Youths in Society
Cyber-misinformed youths resulted into wide spread abuse of cyberspace/internet committed by our youths. Absence of anti-cybercime orientation on internet safety, security and personal responsibility.
- Cybercrime Legislation & Institutional Vulnerability
Poverty motivated background, and enabling environment only favorable for cybercriminally minded youths. E.g Cybercafe, Mobile internet phone etc
Absence of Cybercrime Monitoring Inititaives among youths
Absence of cybercrime enabling law to curb the menace of cybercrime among our youths
Lack of legal policy on the purchase and acquisition of mobile phone and Sim Cards on the street to prevent digital identity fraud usually exploited by fraudulent youths and young people.
- Internet Community & Safety for our youths and other vulnerable group
Cyberspace is a diverse online community of millions, where people research information for school, learn about movies, shop, listen to music, watch video clips,even develop sites of their own. As in any community, there are people and places our youths must naturally avoid to reduce national crime risk.
The reality of cybercrime activities committed by our youths are on the rise. What do we do?
It is the recognition of these challenges that caused us to crave for this official visitation to Your Excellency.
Your Excellency,
On behalf of the Board of Directors and Management of Global Network for Cybersolution, I will like to present our courtesy visit prayer for the consideration of your Ministry for a collaborative action plan on National Cybercrime Prevention Initiative for our country.
Thank you.
Segun Olugbile
The Vice President & Chief Executive Officer
Global Network for Cybersolution Ltd/Gte
Abuja.Thursday 10th of July 2008 09:39:25 AM |
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