JKLU, CRY Hosts Workshop On Digital Media And Children Safety

The Centre for Communication and Critical Thinking at JK Lakshmipat University, in collaboration with CRY – Child Rights and You, organised a workshop on ‘Digital Media and the Safety of Children and Adolescents’, on Saturday, March 18, 2023. The objective behind the day-long workshop was to initiate the discussion on this very relevant and sensitive issue among the students who would be responsible for shaping the future in different capacities. The speakers at the workshop were Dr Debarati Dhar, Manager - Media Advocacy, CRY; Ragini Pant, Senior Manager - Research, CRY and who leveraged their vast experience and knowledge of the domain to help the attending students understand and engage with important questions and ideas related to online safety.

To allow for greater engagement with the ideas discussed, the participants were asked to work in groups of around 5-6 people and prepare a visual representation or poster of their understanding of how child sexual abuse operates, especially online. The session was attended by around 125 first-year students from B Tech programme, who participated in the discussion. It is hoped that events such as these will lead to increased awareness and sensitivity on an extremely relevant topic for today’s youth.