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Verizon and the Inner-City Scholarship Fund (ICSF) teamed up to sponsor the Be Wise: Don’t Trust Who You Don’t Know. Surf the Net Safely forum, held at the Apollo Theater in Harlem yesterday.

“It’s all of our responsibility to keep the Internet a safe place for our children,” said Monica Azare, Verizon senior vice president for New York and Connecticut. “The first step in that process is to bring awareness of the hazards of the Web to youngsters, their parents and teachers. And we need to quickly follow that with ways of preventing abuses, stopping the online bullying, and outing the predators.”

More than 500 people attended to talk about online precautions including the New York Police Department, United States Department of Justice and New York City Council Member Gale Brewer.

  • What precautions do you use? We had a bit of a hassle with our eldest but have since made a rule that nobody chats online anymore. It’s important for kids to know some people are not who they say they are, but the more that we can protect them the better.

Susan George, executive director for the ICSF, said, “ICSF is very pleased to work with Verizon to provide this opportunity to the students of the Archdiocese of New York. As we’ve all seen, the Internet is a rich teaching and learning tool. This forum aims to provide greater awareness concerning how to safely maximize those benefits.” (NEW YORK, Nov. 14 /PRNewswire)

Verizon has several good articles, downloads and tools that you can access to have fun and keep your family safe.


Posted in General on November 15th, 2007

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