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 lobby of Casa do Futuro at the Portuguese Communications Foundation.

Net with Awareness is the latest project produced by the Safe Internet Center (Cis.pt) that highlights some of the online behaviors of the younger 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 series of ten videos aims to promote safe browsing and responsible use of the Internet, as well as encouraging the reporting of malicious and illegal online content through the Internet Segura hotline. 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 consciences" of two teenagers, launched the adapted versions. The program included the presentation of the promotional spot for the Safe Internet Line, developed by the IPDJ, which is being broadcast on RTP2, as well as the animation There is life offline by the SeguraNet Project (DGE).

The students in attendance also took part in the quiz "Do you make a difference?" about the online behaviors seen in the videos. At the end, the actors hosted 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 resources developed in Portugal to encourage 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 FCT, involving the Directorate-General for Education (DGE), the Portuguese Institute for Sport and Youth (IPDJ), Microsoft Portugal, and the PT Foundation.