The First Lady to Host IT Summit for Youths

Dame Patience Jonathan, the International
Telecommunication Union (ITU) are to host the
representatives of youths to an Online Protection
Summit in Abuja on September 3, 2013, Tuesday. Mrs. Ayo Adesugba, the Director of Information in
the Presidency, disclosed that the summit, tagged
“The Internet: Emerging Threats and Solutions for
the Youth”, was being organised by ITU with the
Federal Ministries of Communication Technology
and Youth Development. The summit is expected to underscore the
importance of the Internet as a contemporary tool
for excellence and a vehicle for exposing the
vulnerability of youths while producing youth-
focused initiatives and ideas to promote the safety
of youths on information super highway. According to the statement signed by Mrs. Ayo
Adesugba, “Youths attending the summit will
hold an interactive forum with the First Lady while
she will unveil the Child Online Protection (COP)
Champion Website at the event. “Participants will receive online protection training
provided by Google Nigeria, while 100 lucky
participants will be offered scholarships for ICT
training from New Horizons,” the statement
added. The First Lady was appointed an Online Child
Protection Champion by ITU and the International
Multilateral Partnership against Cyber Threats
(IMPACT) earlier in the year.