The spread of the Internet and mobile phones has brought various problems, such as the misuse of such services and an increasing volume of harmful information. The NTT Group strives to leverage ICT to provide products, services and a communications environment that protect the safety of children in particular, and also conducts educational activities on the safe use of ICT.
Dream Kids summer holiday events where children can have fun learning about communications systems
Continuing on from fiscal 2008, the NTT Group held NTT Dream Kids Net Town 2008 summer holiday events where children have fun experiencing first-hand how a communications network operates and also learning about our latest communications services.
These events were held in the five major cities of Fukuoka, Sendai, Tokyo, Sapporo, and Osaka, and were attended by approximately 1,300 children. We also launched an interactive learning website during the period of these events to enable those unable to participate in person to study the same content online.
A Dream Kids event
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.com KIDs: developing children's knowledge and judgment powers
NTT Com CHEO has been selling .com KIDs, an ICT-based learning support tool for children, since fiscal 2008, and it is now being used by school teachers, community instructors, and others in after-school classes, community centers, child-minding centers, and so forth. It is made up of two sections — Safety, which provides tips on safe Internet use and helps develop the powers of judgment that children require to avoid trouble; and Learning, which offers math, Japanese language, and other subjectbased learning.
.com KIDs screenshot
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e-Net Caravan protects children from trouble
The NTT Group provides instructors for e-Net Caravan, an initiative organized by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications and others to protect children from computer viruses, spam e-mail, theft of personal information, and other Internet-related trouble. Activities include talks on safe Internet use for students as well as parents/guardians and school personnel.
e-Net Caravan website
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Internet Safety Workshops for elementary and middle school students
NTT East has since 2006 held Internet Safety Workshops that use anime (cartoons) and practical learning to educate school children in communication skills, netiquette, and trouble-free utilization of ICT. NTT East has expanded the program to cover middle schools too, and aims to hold 500 classes in fiscal 2010.
Internet Safety Workshop
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Mobile Phone Safety Program classes attended by approximately 1.49 million students
Under its Mobile Phone Safety Program, NTT DOCOMO dispatches instructors to elementary, middle, and high schools and local communities nationwide to educate children on mobile phone etiquette and how to avoid trouble. As of the end of March 2009, approximately 9,200 classes have been held nationwide, with a total attendance of approximately 1.49 million.
Mobile Phone Safety Program class
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Stronger prevention of fraudulent contracts
Because mobile phones and PHSs registered with fraudulent identities are often used as a means of communications in bank transfer scams, NTT DOCOMO is stepping up measures to verify identity, screen applications, block fraudulent volume contracts and otherwise prevent fraudulent mobile phone use.
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