Muscat – The Ministry of Education, represented by the Department of Electronic Information Security, on Sunday launched the Electronic Security Week, highlighting the importance of this initiative and the mechanism of its implementation in various schools of Oman.

“It is an embodiment of the Royal Directives of His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tarik, emphasising on the necessity of the responsibility that rests on society, its institutions and individuals, in dealing with and caring about building a family and raising children, benefiting from technology and digital and social communication, and not relying on social networks alone in raising children,” said Ahmed al Ghatrifi, assistant director of the Department of Electronic Information Security at the ministry.

For the week – under the slogan ‘Digital Communication for Societal Success’ – all the educational directorates in the governorates and the Directorate-General of Special Education and Continuous Learning, in cooperation with the Department of Electronic Information Security in the ministry, have prepared an integrated programme for school students, as well as for their parents and for those in charge of education and raising children.

The initiative – under implementation in all governmental and private schools across Oman – aims at implementing the principles, values, and concepts of electronic security.

It also seeks to raise the level of electronic safety through the awareness of the aspects of safe and optimal use of social networks, while raising the readiness level of response and dealing with electronic security risks and threats.