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August 24, 2022August 25, 2022

Tiktok, Zindagi Trust initiate digital safety workshops in Govt Schools

Karachi, August 24, 2022 (PPI-OT):Famous video sharing app TikTok, in collaboration with Zindagi Trust, has initiated a series of workshops across their network of government schools in a bid to create awareness around digital safety among students, teachers and parents.

A statement issued by the partners said that about 3,000 students, teachers and parents will learn about safe usage of the internet, with a focus on social media. A separate workshop for teachers and parents will also be conducted, seeking to educate them on how they can ensure the safety of youngsters on the internet, it added.

According to the statement, young internet users from grades 7 to 9 will learn about practices of internet usage, and how can they become responsible digital citizens and cultivate a safe online community across the nation.

The workshops will cover a range of topics including navigating online safety issues such as cyber-bullying, cat fishing and false information. There will be detailed modules on the harmful behaviours prevalent on social media, ways to share appropriate information, identifying fake news and misinformation and reporting mechanisms to report illicit and harmful content on social media.

The statement said that the workshops also aim to educate teachers and parents on how to use safety features on platforms like TikTok to ensure their children remain safe on social media. They will be guided about TikTok’s family pairing features, which allow parents to link their TikTok accounts to their teens’ and set controls including screen time management, restricted mode and direct messages.

Farah Tukan, head of government relations and public policy in Middle East, Turkey, Africa and Pakistan (METAP) at TikTok, said: “These workshops are another step in the right direction for ensuring our TikTok community in Pakistan remains digitally safe. We are fully committed to ensuring the safety of Pakistan‘s digital community, as we continue implementing policies and processes to proactively identify and prevent every attempt to share inappropriate content on our platform.”

Zindagi Trust’s Senior Marketing and Resource Development Manager Faiq Ahmed said: “It’s about time to create awareness among the young generation about digital safety so they can deal with safety and privacy challenges on the internet.”

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July 25, 2022July 26, 2022

Meta, Zindagi Trust join hands to launch child safety campaign in Pakistan

Karachi, July 25, 2022 (PPI-OT):Meta and Zindagi Trust are collaborating to launch a broad-based awareness and stakeholder engagement campaign to curb the spread of harmful content related to child safety in online space. Under the arrangement, a series of policy roundtables will be organised with local CSOs and policy stakeholders working in the areas of both digital safety and child rights. The partnering institutions will also carry forward their on-going campaign to raise awareness regarding actions individual social media users can take to curb the spread of content depicting abuse or violence against children across cyberspace.

The first of the series of three roundtables was held this week at one of the Zindagi Trust Schools in Karachi. These roundtables are expected to provide a conducive platform for meaningful engagement amongst local organisations to give recommendations to Meta as well as key government agencies including, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), Ministry of Human Rights (MoHR), National Commission on the Rights of Child (NCRC) and other important industry stakeholders to tackle the sensitive issues pertaining to child safety in Pakistan.

The prime objective of this program is to raise awareness on the harms of sharing such content and the importance of reporting through existing mechanisms and methods of reporting malicious content on social media. The campaign uses informative videos to educate social media users about reporting inappropriate content through proper channels instead of sharing it on social media, which can cause further harm to young victims.

Sharing his thoughts regarding the campaign, Founder and President – Zindagi Trust, Shehzad Roy said: “Whenever I used to encounter disturbing content, my first instinct was to share it so it could help find the perpetrator. However, I have realised that the content can be distressing for many viewers, is illegal, and is a breach of privacy of the victims. We want to push for justice for victims and advocate for safer digital spaces instead of sensationalising traumatic events. Zindagi Trust takes pride in being a vocal advocate of policy level change for children’s safety and education. We rely on the support of government institutions and social media companies like Meta to help us achieve our goals.”

Sarim Aziz, Director Public Policy, South Asia-Meta said, “We have a zero tolerance policy for content related to child exploitation and abuse. We use latest ground breaking technology to prevent, detect and remove content related to child abuse and violence. Since this is a highly sensitive matter, we take a comprehensive approach to keep our family of apps free of such malicious content and continue to collaborate with local authorities, rights bodies and relevant stakeholders to Report such content, and not share it, as sharing – even to raise awareness, further traumatises victims, by sharing evidence of their ordeal. Instead the content should be reported in app or through proper channels so that the government agencies can move against those responsible.”

Meta and Zindagi Trust launched their collaborative effort for online child safety last year. This year the scope of the arrangement is being expanded to scale its impact nationwide.

February 15, 2022February 16, 2022

TikTok and Zindagi Trust join hands for a safer Pakistan

Karachi, February 15, 2022 (PPI-OT):Zindagi Trust has partnered with the fastest growing global video-making platform TikTok with the aim of creating an awareness campaign for a digitally safe Pakistan. Both parties have signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and announced the partnership on Safer Internet Day on February 8 in Islamabad.

The shared goal of this campaign is to conduct a series of workshops for Zindagi Trust’s adopted schools, Khatoon-e-Pakistan, and SMB Fatima Jinnah School in Karachi. The topics of the workshop will tackle multiple themes regarding cyber safety such as safety features on TikTok, harmful behaviours prevalent on social media, how to share appropriate information, how to identify fake news, and how to report harmful content on social media. The Zindagi Trust-TikTok partnership will establish essential guidelines on how to be responsible digital citizens since the main motive behind the digital safety awareness campaign is to cultivate a secure online community.

As an organization that continuously advocates for child safety and protection rights, Zindagi Trust will participate head-on in the awareness campaign by taking the initiative of creating and sharing informative videos encompassing the multiple facets of digital safety through its official TikTok account and other social media platforms to engage with a wider audience and pave way for an impactful discourse.

Zindagi Trust will also work towards empowering children through training sessions on content creation for online social media platforms, especially TikTok which could be regarded as an essential skill in a digital era. Speaking about the partnership, TikTok’s Head of Government Relations and Public Policy – Middle East, Turkey, Africa and Pakistan (METAP), Farah Tukan, said: “It is a pleasure for us to collaborate with Zindagi Trust – a prestigious non-governmental organization that promises wellbeing and empowerment of the masses while protecting the ever-growing community of internet users in Pakistan.”

Zindagi Trust’s Chief Executive Officer- Dr. Hameedah Sayani shares similar sentiments and expresses that this partnership is definitely a step in the right direction for its intended cause can reach the masses through the popularity of the TikTok app in Pakistan. She shared that Zindagi Trust’s constant effort has been to inculcate growth not just within schools but throughout Pakistan. “We remain committed to improving the quality of life for our communities while accelerating sustainable development and socio-economic growth of the nation.”

February 12, 2022February 13, 2022

Zindagi Trust partners up with TikTok to create Digital Safety Awareness

Karachi, February 12, 2022 (PPI-OT):As our next move in safeguarding children over digital platforms, Zindagi Trust has partnered up with TikTok to help our young users learn safer ways to navigate the web and become mindful of the reporting mechanisms available to them to report cyberbullying and inappropriate content.

Under this partnership, our organization will not only conduct a series of workshops with students and teachers to promote safe Internet usage, it will also invite parents to learn about the safety features available on TikTok and help them foster a deeper and strong connection with their children on the platform.

Zindagi Trust will also help its students to create appropriate content in accordance with TikTok’s Community Guidelines and release a series of TikTok videos to enable a wider audience to learn about digital safety and tools available to them for their protection online.