Project Details


AI Repository Project

WSIS Prizes Contest 2020 Nominee

SafeSpace


Cyber Safety awareness portal

Description

SafeSpace is a cyber-safety awareness website and the hub for several initiatives under the cyber-safety section in MOTC. It is built on three fundamental principles: prevention, protection, and empowerment. Its goal is to guide the community of Qatar and the Arab region towards safe use of Information and Communication Technologies. We were able to deliver cyber safety awareness workshops for more 400+ governmental and international schools within Qatar with over 30,000+ people taking direct workshops. SafeSpace can be used in other countries as the main values being developed are accepted in Arab and international communities as well. these values created our Code of Ethics that is the main reference for Safespace website content, we raise Values such as Respect, Honesty, and Responsibilities are values that shall be used while being online not just in real life. Now Our vision is to be the ultimate reference for anything related to cyber safety and to be the source for good netizens in Qatar and the Arab world. and this involved collaboration with several stakeholders like ministry of education and ministry of development and other governmental entities, also collaborating with private and big organization like Microsoft and Vodafone to achieve our mission.

Project website

https://www.safespace.qa/


Action lines related to this project
  • AL C1. The role of governments and all stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs for development
  • AL C3. Access to information and knowledge
  • AL C5. Building confidence and security in use of ICTs 2020
  • AL C6. Enabling environment
  • AL C8. Cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and local content
  • AL C10. Ethical dimensions of the Information Society
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 3: Good health and well-being
  • Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals

Coverage
  • Qatar

Status

Completed

Start date

01 January 2011

End date

01 November 2019


Target beneficiary group(s)
  • Youth
  • Women
  • Kids, Students, Parents and Educators

Replicability

to support other countries and form partnerships


Sustainability

The website produces hub for several initiatives under the cyber-safety section in MOTC that in turn lead to the development of sustainable services.


WSIS values promotion

Through the information and content we provide in the website, we empower caregiver, youth, teachers and public to know how to deal and use information technology in much more safer way. and prevent incident. Also every piece of content is made not just to make reader/listener aware of thread but to change his/her behavior and become much more mature. Quizzes and videos are one of the best easy tool that people tend to use and watch to learn something interesting in cyber safety. SafeSpace has been revamped to increase the user experience and make the knowledge of cyber-safety important like the other knowledge that everyone should look for in the internet. Having above mentioned we will have empowered citizen dealing with confidence in ICT world.


Entity name

Ministry of Transport and Communications (MoTC)

Entity country—type

Qatar Government

Entity website

http://motc.gov.qa/en