MANY parents here and worldwide have little idea of what their
children are up to online, a worldwide survey has found.
They do not know whether their children have been a target of
cyber-bullying, Internet paedophiles and online fraudsters or been
exposed to pornography - or how their children are coping with all
this if they have.
Ask parents and 92 per cent of them will say they have set up
ground rules about using the Internet, but ask the young ones and
only 66 per cent say these rules exist, the International
Telecommunication Union (ITU) has found.
The ITU, the technology arm of the United Nations, revealed this
and other findings in conjunction with World Telecommunications and
Information Society Day on May 17.
The day was marked here on Tuesday by about 80 industry
professionals at a gathering organised by the Association of
Telecommunications Industry of Singapore (Atis).
Other findings by the ITU include:
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