Dominica is among several Caribbean countries to engage in an online safety campaign.
This Commonwealth initiative was launched by Get Safe Online, a UK based non-profit organization. Get Safe Online is soliciting the support of community groups, government ministries, other non-profit organizations and the media to spread the campaign message of online safety in the respective Commonwealth countries.
Get Safe Online is funded by the UK Government, law enforcement and both public and private sector organisations and now can bring these services to the Caribbean as part of the UK’s Commonwealth Cyber Security Programme.
The first campaign headlined “Hello Potential Victim” will target all members of the public, will run over the period April 2019 to March 2020, with a focus on those most likely to be affected; the elderly and children.
Hello Potential Victim campaign, shows examples of what a “Potential Victim” looks like from the victim’s point of view, and from the scammer’s perspective. “Hello” serves a dual role; a “wake up call” to victims exposed to online predators and scammers as well as a greeting much like how a fraudster would address their target.
The campaign spans nine commonwealth countries, including Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Grenada, Guyana, St. Vincent & The Grenadines and St. Lucia and Dominica.
The platform for sharing online safety information in Antigua and Barbuda is getsafeonline.ag.
Though I applaud and support any prudent measure to promote personal cyber awareness and online security, a more robust effort should be made to minimize vulnerability and risk to all consumers of cyber and non-cyber outlets. This includes banks, credit bureaus and many other entities whose weak “walls” of privacy are increasingly being breached. Victimized consumers should no longer have to settle for simple statements of apology. Instead, those who are entrusted with private and potentially damaging information should be held finanancially and legally responsible when individual information is compromised.
Hold up!! Is that really Skerrit’s house being built in Morne Daniel, while Portsmouth landlords can hardly pay their mortgage because Skerrit got rid of Ross, Dominica’s largest employer, and the mortgage payments of the most dependable supporters of the DLP: Possie people? And them Caribbean leaders talking about online safety security? What they should really be discussing is how to secure Dominica’s treasury from this man. OMG, this cannot be Dominica. It must be Qatar, UAE, or Saudi Arabia. The country is bleeding money, and only these some people benefit.
If Jackie girl wake up and see what is happening in Dominica, I know Portsmouth people will wake up from that sleep.
I will never forget when the late Dr. Edward Scobie, may his soul rest in peace, told me Dominica will go how Portsmouth people go, and he seems to have been right. How long are you going to remain poor while your vote makes the cabal wealthy while you might lose your hard earned property? Open your…
The safest way is to stay off the internet unless you have to use it and beware of certain websites and viruses and only let children use it under supervision. Children should be outside playing not mesmerized by electronic devices.
Annon, I agree but do remember the internet is a playground for children and adults alike, all of whom are at risk in one way or another. Like fire, the World Wide Web can be a blessing or curse depending on the amount of caution taken!!!
“The safest way is to stay off the internet unless you have to use it”
The irony of this comment being posted on a website is astounding. All it takes is for people to learn a bit of common sense and to be more wary. It’s not just on the internet but in real life too. The internet didn’t invent scammers all it did was give them easier access to gullible people.
A simple rule of thumb is – “if it’s too good to be true, it probably isn’t”.