The contest “Make in Vietnam digital products” is about to start. Expected to take place under the chairmanship of Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Phan Tam, in addition to the bridge point at the headquarters of the Ministry of Information and Communications, the press conference to announce and launch this year’s awards is also connected to 5 bridge points at the provincial Departments of Information and Communications. , cities include: Hanoi, Hai Phong, Da Nang, Ho Chi Minh City and Can Tho. In the second year of being held, according to the Award Regulation signed by the Minister of Information and Communications on June 7, “Make in Vietnam Digital Products” in 2021 continues to have 5 categories, including: Excellent digital platform; Excellent digital products; Excellent digital solutions; Narrowing the digital divide; Potential digital products. The second “Make in Vietnam Digital Product” Award will have Gold, Silver and Bronze awards for the categories of Excellent Digital Platform; Excellent digital products; Excellent digital solutions; Close the number gap. As for the category “Potential digital products”, this category only applies to participating units that are non-business organizations, small and medium-sized enterprises or creative start-ups and only the Top 10 are announced. The organization is expected to invite leaders of the Party, State and Government to award prizes to enterprises with high prizes. Products honored at the “Make in Vietnam Digital Technology Product” award in 2021 must satisfy two main groups of criteria, namely: design, creativity in Vietnam and practical value. In the criterion group “Actual value”, the score structure related to revenue, the number of users is 40 (accounting for about 70%). The award also encourages digital technology products of small and medium enterprises and innovative start-ups in the category of “Potential Digital Products”. Regarding the process of reviewing and awarding this year’s awards, the representative of the Organizing Committee said that at the preliminary stage, the subcommittees of the Jury Council will organize grading of documents that meet the criteria through the pre-qualification round. select 12 records with the highest score of each award category. The participating units with records in the group of 12 records with the highest score of each category will present and defend in front of the respective Committee’s Sub-Committees (in person or online) to the Sub-Committees. The evaluation board selects the Top 10 records in order of scores from high to low of each category. At the final round, based on the list of nominations of the subcommittees, the Jury Council held meetings to evaluate and select the Top 10 and the Gold, Silver, and Bronze prizes for the 4 categories of Awards and Top 10. 10 potential digital products. According to the Organizing Committee, the time to receive registrations and applications for the award will last from June 20 to the end of September 20, 1 month longer than the 2020 prize. During the period from June 20 to July 20, businesses can make preliminary registration and receive guidance from the award standing body to prepare documents according to the Award Regulations. Units and businesses send their documents online at the portal with the addresses: makeinvietnam.mic.gov.vn and makeinvietnam.vcci.com.vn.

Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung. Speaking at the online conference on state management in the second quarter of 2021 held recently by the Ministry of Information and Communications, Minister Nguyen Manh Hung emphasized the need to clean up cyberspace. The head of the Ministry of Information and Communications noted that localities, ministries and branches must closely monitor and make the cyberspace in their localities and their industries clean and healthy. “In the real world we have been doing pretty well, we have to do the same thing in the digital world,” Hung said. The leader of the Ministry of Information and Communications also pointed out the fact that many ministries, branches, localities and some Departments of Information and Communications have not actively participated in cleaning up cyberspace. Cyberspace is the space of all fields, all ministries, branches and localities, it is not the space of the information and communication industry. “Many gaps exist in cyberspace and are being exploited. A lot of individuals and organizations are being hurt in cyberspace and this ‘pain’ is the first responsibility, first of all, of the Ministry of Information and Communications. “, said Minister Nguyen Manh Hung. Affirming the responsibility of the Ministry of Information and Communications to maintain the health of this new space, the Minister assigned Deputy Minister Hoang Vinh Bao and Deputy Minister Nguyen Huy Dung to discuss with each other so that this July, they will issue instructions on how to do and necessary tools to ensure the health of the entire country’s cyberspace, promulgating documents related to other ministries, branches, localities and other fields. Minister Nguyen Manh Hung requested that one of the things that needs to be done immediately to ensure the health of cyberspace is the movement of individuals, businesses, and organizations… to clean platforms. The Ministry of Information and Communications has to do the task of evaluating and announcing clean platforms. Departments and departments in charge of any field will set evaluation criteria and announce clean platforms in their fields. “The press and media system of the whole country must actively propagate and propagate daily so that people, organizations and businesses move to a healthier environment. Although we are late, we must strongly clean up the living environment in cyberspace and don’t leave it too late,” the Minister emphasized. Regarding the issue of “telecommunications garbage”, at this meeting, Minister Nguyen Manh Hung assigned Deputy Minister Phan Tam to take the strongest measures to thoroughly handle in 2021 the problem of junk SIM, news Spam messages, spam calls… “Mobile phone numbers will be used as digital identifiers, user identifiers on social platforms, mobile money payments, so the phone number must be correctly identified,” Minister Nguyen Manh Hung pointed out. religion.

The Department of Information and Communications is the focal point for information on epidemic prevention According to Ms. Le Ngoc Han, information and propaganda have been determined by the province to play a very important role in the prevention of the Covid-19 epidemic. Therefore, communication has been included in the message of Covid-19 prevention and control in Quang Ninh along with 5K, vaccines and technology. When implementing, there are some differences that are the entire information and propaganda work is assigned to the Department of Information and Communications for information to be more unified and proactive. Specifically, the Department of Information and Communications is the focal agency to broadcast messages and developments in epidemic prevention and control as well as directing and operating activities in the area. “This is also a way to reduce the load on the health workers who are on the front lines so they can focus on their professional work, which is epidemic prevention and control,” said Ms. Le Ngoc Han. During epidemics, the Department of Information and Communications is the focal point to provide all information on epidemic prevention to the press, media as well as the basic information systems, including information related to the tracing work. . At times with special factors, the Department of Information and Communications produces newsletters or informational content in order to provide timely and fastest information to the press and the grassroots information system. Promoting the strengths of IT in anti-epidemic propaganda The information is continuously updated at the e-Government of Quang Ninh province on the Zalo platform (Photo: Duy Vu) Quang Ninh is one of the affected localities in the 3rd outbreak when Van Don airport and Dong Trieu town appeared new cases. At a time when the epidemic was complicated, the province’s information and propaganda work was carried out continuously in many forms and showed positive effects. Ms. Le Ngoc Han shared: “Instead of only using traditional methods in print press, radio, television, and electronic press, today, communication is used to the fullest extent. In particular, promoting the strengths of IT and telecommunications infrastructures. Specifically, Quang Ninh uses a public service portal to bring information about Covid-19 prevention to people and businesses. The public service portal is one of the methods of communication with people and businesses, which has a large amount of traffic every day, so information is quickly and widely distributed. Especially when social distancing, the more users need to access the public service portal. Quang Ninh also uses the basic infrastructure of the provincial e-government (invested since 2014) to access the entire system of civil servants and public employees from the province to the commune level. In addition, all administrative documents of the province are sent via the official email system to civil servants and public employees. Currently, the province is testing a smart application in the IoT system, which is identified as an effective communication channel. In addition, the Department of Information and Communications also uses the public Wi-Fi system to deliver messages and content that need to be transmitted immediately to the people about epidemic prevention and control. “Another system that we consider very effective is basic information,” said the director of the Quang Ninh Department of Information and Communications. Not only providing the written content as directed, at peak periods such as the 3rd outbreak, every day the Department of Information and Communications prepares a newsletter to give to the basic information system to communicate key and fastest content to the people. “So we communicate proactively, purposefully and communicate focused content throughout the province,” said Ms. Le Ngoc Han. Using and promoting the effectiveness of social networks is a form deployed by the province to bring information to the people quickly. In Quang Ninh, most departments and branches have a Fanpage; All information on epidemic prevention and control is focused on these channels or Zalo platform on the provincial e-Government page for daily news updates.

Staff of the Information Technology Management Department (Department of Information and Communications) actively prepares technological conditions for the prevention and control of the COVID-19 epidemic. The Department of Information and Communications has directed Viettel Thanh Hoa and Telecommunication Thanh Hoa to coordinate with the People’s Committees of districts, towns and cities to implement a monitoring system operating in isolated areas, connecting online to relevant agencies. participate in monitoring. Research and deploy a paperless online meeting room system solution on Jitsi platform to ensure information security for meetings. Set up and create accounts of the online meeting room system ready to serve the meetings of the COVID-19 Steering Committee for epidemic prevention and control at all levels. Guide departments, departments, branches at provincial level, People’s Committees of districts, towns and cities to inspect, review and maintain infrastructure, IT equipment to be ready to serve the management and direction. on the network environment. In particular, continue to promote effective use of document and work record management software to manage, direct, operate and create, exchange, process, and digitally sign electronic documents on the environment. to limit direct exposure. Increase the use of online video conferencing systems, paperless meeting rooms and other IT applications to quickly, economically and efficiently deploy tasks, especially to avoid crowds the maximum spread of the COVID-19 epidemic. Continue to effectively use the National Online Service Portal of the province and the country; promote information, propagate, guide and encourage people and businesses to use level 3 and level 4 online public services within the scope of their providers and make online payment of fees. , fees and other financial obligations in handling administrative procedures to minimize travel, direct contact, and avoid crowds. Continuing to inform, propagate and guide the installation and use of the COVID-19 disease prevention and control technology solution suite at the request of the Ministry of Information and Communications for medical declaration and information update, for traceability infections in the community. Direct postal and telecommunications businesses to ensure safe and uninterrupted post, telecommunications and IT infrastructures serving the direction and administration in epidemic prevention and control by agencies and units in the area. .

Lee MacMillan, the star on the social network Instagram, recently ended his life in tragedy. She is one of the victims of online bullying, an extremely dangerous flip side from social networks.

Lee MacMillan is a blogger with 74,000 followers on Instagram. The 28-year-old girl, famous for her van adventures with ex-boyfriend Max Bidstrup. Both have traveled from Canada to the Americas, South Africa … with the shepherd dog. At the end of January 2020, the couple announced the way everyone went, making many fans feel regretful.

At that time, in addition to words of comfort and encouragement, Lee also became the subject of some fans blaming and stoning. Gradually, the young girl fell into a state of depression before taking her own life. According to Lee’s family, the people who are always trying to bully Lee online are a small group of 74,000 fanpage followers.

They let go of her disparaging words for a long time. “Unfortunately, Lee has faced some sort of criticism and they have deeply influenced her. Our help was not enough for her to overcome the negative emotions they caused“The father of the Instagram social network star,” said Wil, sadly.

According to Daily Mail Australia, the Lee family hopes their daughter’s story can shed light on the devastating effects of cyberbullying can have on a person’s psychological health.

A global issue

Ipsos survey of cyberbullying in several countries. Photo: Statista

The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) defines “cyber bullying” as bullying using digital technology. It can take place on social media, messaging platforms, gaming platforms, and mobile phones. It is repetitive behavior, intended to frighten, anger, or embarrass the targeted people.

There are various forms of bullying on the Internet, such as the spread of lies, malicious rumors, and offensive comments; Post embarrassing photos of someone on social media; Sending harassing or threatening messages through messaging platforms; Impersonating someone online to send malicious messages to others …

In fact, bullying has always been a headache for many people and society for a long time. Now, with the use of social media becoming ubiquitous around the world, bullies are taking advantage of the “high-tech path” to commit these evils. There are no age or gender restrictions on victims of cyberbullying.

In September 2020, Microsoft released the results of an online bullying study, which found that 38% of people in 32 countries said they had been involved in a bullying case, as victim, bully or bystander.

In Vietnam, 51% of internet users, including 48% of adults and 54% of teenagers, said they had been involved in a “bullying case”, 21% said they had been a victim and 38 % are bystanders or witnesses bullying or harassment.

Rates of online bullying among Vietnamese students through studies from 2015 to 2017. Photo: UED Media

The study also surveyed adults about bullying, also known as “harassment”, both inside and outside the workplace. In Vietnam, 15% reported seeing bullying at their workplace and 44% reported having experienced bullying outside of their workplace.

According to another survey by Unicef ​​and the special representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on Violence against Children, published in September 2019, one-third of teenagers in 30 countries said they were once victims of cyberbullying, of which one in five said they had dropped out of school because of cyberbullying and violence.

Surveys via anonymous messages are conducted through U-Report. More than 170,000 U-Report users aged 13-24 participated in this survey, including teenagers from Albania, Bangladesh, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Côte d’Ivoire, Ecuador, France, Gambia, Ghana , India, Indonesia, Iraq, Jamaica, Malaysia, Myanmar, Vietnam …

“Today, the classroom space connecting with the outside world also means that school hours no longer end by the time students leave the classroom, and sadly, bullying doesn’t stop there.“, Ms. Henrietta Fore, CEO of Unicef ​​organization said.

With the Covid-19 epidemic still going unpredictable, when measures are taken, children and adolescents have used online platforms more often as they have to learn from far. And as a result, the number of online bullying cases is certainly increasing.

The level of bullying among high school students, according to a 2018 survey of the Department of Psychology – Education, Da Nang Pedagogical University on cyberbullying, with the participation of more than 500 high school students. In the city.

Virtual bullying, real impact

Mr. Pham The Truong, General Director of Microsoft Vietnam, commented: “Cyberbullying has real-world consequences. In the case of cyberbullying, victims can be harmed at any time of the day by anonymous sources, and it is likely that the incident will be spread to a large number of people. People of all ages can be affected by online abuse, cruelty and abuse“.

Globally, when asked about the effects of workplace bullying, survey participants reported feeling humiliated (58%) globally, according to a Microsoft survey. ), followed by mental loss (52%) and loss of confidence (51%).

The effects also vary between generations. 53% of respondents aged 18-24 reported feeling isolated and depressed, while Gen X generation (those born between the 1960s and early 1980s) were underperforming. more fruit (58%). People who experience online bullying or harassment at work also reported feeling “unbearable or severe” pain.

When it comes to online bullying or harassment, Microsoft says, most people in Vietnam block bullies (63%) or share with friends about what happened (58%). , the rest ignored the bully (43%). 50% of survey respondents said that they reported behavior to social media companies or other providers.

Rate of bullying online in the world from 2008 to 2018. Photo: UED Media

In its report, Microsoft encourages people of all ages to report any online threats or harassment to the relevant online service provider. User reports play a key role in providing everyone with a safe and reliable online experience.

In the third quarter of 2020, the artificial intelligence (AI) system of Facebook discovered and removed 94.7% of the 22.1 million content that provoked hate on social pages; increased from 80.5% out of 6.9 million content over the same period of the previous year. Facebook is taking steps to use AI to remove these content from its platform.

“Online bullying is out of control in the world, and it needs to be stopped. People involved in this behavior must understand that their actions have real consequences. We need to find a way to stop them and the platforms for this to happen accountable“Lee MacMillan’s father said.

According to Mr. Luu Dinh Phuc, Director of the Department of Information and Communications (Ministry of Information and Communications), Vietnam has specific regulations on behavior on domestic websites. For overseas social networking platforms, offended persons can immediately report such platforms so that they can take measures to remove them, or send information to regulatory agencies such as the Department of Information and Communications, media information and local authorities.

The Department of Information and Communications has now established channels to request cross-border platforms to remove bad and malicious information. The Department has also set up a center to receive and process fake news at the address tingia.gov.vn and the introduction of prefix reception reflecting fake news 18008108. This center has the role of receiving, assessing and publishing fake news about information that may cause negative effects on the community, and offend the honor and dignity of individuals.

Information given by the fake news processing center will be shared on social networking sites, forums and newspapers for the community to understand, thereby reducing the disadvantages. In addition, when the center has announced fake news, the functional forces will base on that to investigate whether the objects spread inside or outside the country to handle. Mr. Phuc also added that in the coming time, the department will set up a specialized room dealing with fake news.

Le Minh

Lee MacMillan is a star on the social network Instagram. Photo: People