Safe Internet Center launches accessible online resources

Resources with audio description, Portuguese sign language and subtitles were presented at the session "Make a Difference for a Better Internet". The event took place on October 11, in the atrium of the House of the Future at the Portuguese Communications Foundation.

Net with Conscience is the latest project produced by Centro Internet Segura (Cis.pt), which characterizes some of the online behaviours of young people of the new generation. With people with special needs in mind, the web series has been adapted with audio description, Portuguese sign language and subtitles in Portuguese and English.

This production of ten videos aims to promote safe surfing and responsible use of the Internet, as well as encouraging the reporting of malicious and illegal content online via the Safe Internet line. Facilitating access to digital content for anyone, in any context is now one of the priorities of this project.

Actors Alexandre Silva, Pedro Górgia and Tiago Aldeia, who star in the series as the "online conscience" of two teenagers, launched the adapted versions. The program included the presentation of the promotional spot for the Safe Internet Line, developed by IPDJ, which is being broadcast on RTP2, as well as the animation There's life offline from the SeguraNet Project (DGE).

The students also took part in the quiz "And you, do you make a difference?" about the online behaviors seen in the videos. At the end, the actors held a Photobooth session to interact with the participants.

This initiative is one of the awareness-raising actions undertaken by Cis.pt, with the aim of promoting the resources developed in Portugal in favor of the critical use of the Internet and online technologies among children, young people and citizens in general.

The Safe Internet Center is a consortium led by the FCT, involving the Directorate-General for Education (DGE), the Portuguese Institute for Sport and Youth (IPDJ), Microsoft Portugal and the PT Foundation.