The Eastern Regional branch of Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) in partnership with National Cybersecurity Centre has organized a day workshop and sensitization on Cybersecurity and cybercrime awareness programme for the Journalist in the region.
This workshop is aimed to build the capacity of Journalists and media practitioners in the eastern region.
Addressing the journalists and media practitioners at the event, the Advisor of the Ghana National Cybersecurity, Dr. Albert Antwi Bosiako said, anytime we are having a deal with someone and we suspect there is fraud somewhere in the deal we shouldn’t hesitate to call 292, officers are there to give guidance.
Dr. Antwi Bosiako adds, “about 5,000 people from January to August of this year (2020) call the centre for direction and they were being prevented from fraud”. This are some of the things we need to share with Journalists because we can also disseminate the messages at the end of the day to ensure we have a secured digital environment to operate.
“We should all take the Cybersecurity awareness as a personal responsibility. Again we should also know that it is not everything on the internet is good for us” Dr. Albert Bosiako advised.
He continue that, we are responsible by the action and inaction when we are using the internet. The action is whereby you snap your nude picture and posted it on the internet. Immediately you do that many website will picked it and if the law enforcement says we can remove that picture it wouldn’t be easy and in most cases it stays there forever. Therefore we need to be careful about the things we posted on the internet.
Kingdom FM’s KONTIHEN KOFI OBOH in an interview with the Eastern Regional Chairman for Ghana Journalist Association (GJA) Mr. Maxwell Kudekor stated, the job we are doing as Journalists its our collective responsibility to educate, inform and entertain the general public.
He said, as a Journalist if you want to teach someone on what’s happening in the country then you have to build your capacity. We are in an era of fake news, misinformation and disinformation. It is important for every journalist to be able to detect the fake news before airing it. Doing this will prevents us from going into troubles.
Mr. Kudekor commend the Ghana National Cybersecurity Centre for the workshop. This has made us to know that we can’t pick any story from the internet and be broadcasting it.
By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.
Source// Obohnews.
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