Ministry of Education Conducts the National Campaign of Protection from Cyber Blackmail Seminar in Musandam

Under the patronage of HE.Shaikh Rashid Al Kalbani,the Wali of Khasab and in presence of Ahmed Al Madhani, the  Assistant Director General of  Education Evaluation and Education Programs ,the  Ministry of Education organized a seminar titled the National Campaign of Protection from Cyber Blackmail at the Conferences Hall in the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Khasab.Also ,the campaign targeted the schools principles ,social and psychological specialists ,IT teachers and schools students in the governorate.   

Moreover, a number of work papers were presented in the seminar. Dr.Ali  Tabok,the #Chief Executive Officer of Middle East Centre Consulting and Social Studies  presented the 1^st paper titled the Cyber Blackmail and How it Affects  the Society where he mentioned that the students must have awareness of  dangers of blackmailing and encourages them to report any such cases they come across and the parents need  to play important role in following and observing their  sons in using  the smartphones  when  dealing with  social media networks .Also, he clarified  the necessity to activate the role of parents councils in order to stay  connected with school society and other parents and to  raise the  awareness of  negative consequences   of  cyber blackmailing .Dr Ali, also  added that the Omani project made a law to deal with the IT crimes in 2011 and considered as modern legislation in the area level. In addition, Tala Al Asmi,the Assistant Head of Electronic Information Security at the Ministry of Education tilted the  Impact of Cyber Blackmail at the Educational Community where he discussed the impact  of cyber blackmail in the school achievement of students and  their use of social media and chatting which lead them to electronic blackmailing .He also talked about the technical aspect  and how to protect their accounts using various methods such as strengthen the password and change privacy .He stressed  not to sell the personal mobiles and laptops for anybody which facilitated for blackmailers  to have personal photos and information.