South East Asia

Stranger danger

For outgoing Waraporn Yamprasert, a senior student at Banglamung School, using information and communication technology (ICT) in the wrong sense can lure adolescents can lure adolescents into a life of vice and exploitation. However, in a positive light, it can also be used as a vehicle to facilitate knowledge that can offer them a bright future.

On March 4, 2011, the Canadian delegation of the CPP Policy and Law Enforcement Study Tour, including CPP Director and Deputy & Legal Director of IICRD, Suzanne Williams, met with police officials of the Children and Women Protection Centre of Police Region 2 of the Royal Thai Police, representatives from Pattaya City and governmental and non-governmental organizations at the Banglamung Police Station, in Pattaya, Chonburi Province, Thailand.

CPP collaborated with the Internet Foundation for the Development of Thailand to organize a Parent and Children ICT training session at Banglamung School to create awareness, educate both children and parents on prevention of online risks and promote the creative use of ICT.

The 6th meeting of the Children and ICT Policy Working Group was held on December 20th, 2010, at the Grand Diamond Hotel in Bangkok.
 
The meeting was held to continue discussing action plans for drafting a policy recommendation paper, the development of strategies on ICT Child Protection and the action plan for NICFD to establish an 'ICT Child, Family and Society Development Centre'.
 

The CPP Canadian Study Tour was an exciting, ten day event that brought together Law Enforcement and policy officials from Brazil, Thailand and Canada from October 24 to November 3, 2010, in Ottawa, Edmonton, and Victoria, Canada.