The Emirates Safer Internet Society’s Board of Directors appointed Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance and Coexistence, as the Society’s honorary president.
This came when Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak received at his palace the Society’s Board of Directors and received the honorary shield of the Society from Dr. Abdullah Al-Mehyas, Society’s Chairman, who presented to him a report on the society’s activities, efforts, achievements, programs and initiatives.
Sheikh Nahyan praised the Emirates Safe Internet Society’s efforts in enabling the community to use the internet in a safe and responsible manner, as well as its role in protecting children from the dangers and negatives of bad Internet and social media use through education and raising awareness in children, capacity building, and activating the preventive, supervisory, and advisory role to protect against risks on the Internet, and benefiting from the positive adverse effects.
He called on the Society’s Board of Directors to work on building preventive strategies and policies to raise awareness on the challenges and dangers facing our children, preparing research and studies on protecting children on the Internet, and enhancing their moral education by providing integrated, distinguished, pioneering child protection programs.
He praised the Society’s cooperation and partnership with various institutions, including the Ministry of Interior, the Khalifa Empowerment Program (Aqdar), the General Women’s Union, and other leading national institutions, since its inception in 2015.
For his part, Eng. Adel Alkaff Alhashmi, Vice Chairman of the Society said:”On behalf of the members of the Board of Directors and Society’s members, expressed his thanks and appreciation to Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan for accepting the honorary presidency which will have a great positive impact in supporting the initiatives and projects of the Society and an outgrowth for rehabilitating and developing the national capabilities of youth to acquire the professional skills in the digital world.
He also mentioned the Society’s ambitious vision of becoming a sustainable and internationally recognized center in the protection of children on the Internet, which aligns with the wise UAE leadership’s directives to increase children’s awareness and positive safe Internet use in order to shape a safe future for digital safety.
Alhashmi emphasized that among the Society’s priorities is the rehabilitation and integration of children and adolescents victims of cybercrime, and its vision is to improve the capabilities and skills of psychologists so that they can implement treatment and rehabilitation programs related to technology addiction and others.
