Unicef India, Netflix pitch for safer online environment
New Delhi, Aug 8 : Netflix, Unicef India and Ficci Arise on Wednesday came together to join a dialogue on ensuring a safer online environment for children.
The Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI), a global NGO specialising in the area of online safety, hosted a session on ensuring a safer online environment for children, and the organisations extended their support, read a statement.
The focus of the event was on how to enable children and youth to benefit from the advantages that the Internet has to offer.
At the event, the discussions included how to equip youth and their guardians to use online tools and other techniques which ensure that they have a safe and age-appropriate experience online.
Stephen Balkam, CEO of FOSI, said: "Online safety is everyone's responsibility and everybody has to work together to maintain it. This can best be done through open dialogue with various stakeholders.... Now more than ever, it is essential to empower young people to be good digital citizens and to be the change for a safer and more civil Internet."
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Affront to non-Hindi speaking people: Chidambaram slams use of Hindi words in bills' names
New Delhi (PTI): Congress leader P Chidambaram has slammed the "increasing practice" of the government using Hindi words in the titles of the bills and said the change is an "affront" to the non-Hindi-speaking people.
Chidambaram said the non-Hindi-speaking people cannot identify a Bill/Act with titles that are in Hindi words written in English letters, and they cannot pronounce them.
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"I am opposed to the increasing practice of the government using Hindi words written in English letters in the title of the Bills to be introduced in Parliament," the former Union minister said late Monday night.
Hitherto, the practice was to write the title of the Bill in English words in the English version and in Hindi words in the Hindi version of the Bill, Chidambaram said.
"When no one pointed out any difficulty in the 75 year practice, why should government make a change?" he said.
"This change is an affront to non-Hindi speaking people and to States that have an official language other than Hindi," the Congress leader said.
Successive governments have reiterated the promise that English will remain an Associate Official Language, Chidambaram said.
"I fear that promise is in danger of being broken," the Congress MP said.
