The document summarizes the findings of the Cyber Engage Children & Teens Activity held in Nigeria, which engaged 939 students across 30 states. It found that while internet use is growing, only 30% of the target group currently uses the internet mostly via phones. Most teenagers use the internet for games or chatting, with few pursuing educational activities. There is a lack of basic internet safety education. The event concluded there is a need to teach personal responsibility online and engage youth to be critical thinkers amid internet dangers in Africa.

2. CYBER ENGAGE CHILDREN & TEENS ACTIVITY:
Age Group and Target Audience
939 Students, 30 States out of 36 states in Nigeria
Par$cipants
0
to
10
11
to
15
16
to
20
21
to
25
26
and
up

3. CYBER ENGAGE CHILDREN & TEENS ACTIVITY:
Outcome and Feedback
• Culture of internet use is growing but is low.
• 30% of target group is using the internet.
Age
Group
Online
Ac$vi$es
0-­‐10
Do
not
engage
with
internet
11-­‐15
Males
Mostly
game
play
11-­‐15
Females
Mostly
cha=ng
with
strangers
15-­‐20
Same
as
11-­‐15
and
some
research
on
sites
like
Google
EnBre
Group
Mostly
access
internet
via
phones

4. CYBER ENGAGE CHILDREN & TEENS ACTIVITY:
Outcome and Feedback
• Biggest Concerns from Students:
– Why age restrictions on sites such as Facebook?
– Reoccurring warning against pornography.
• Biggest Concerns from Leader:
– Lack of basic internet knowledge.
– Lack of affordable internet platforms.
– Little or no information on which sites to visit or stay away from.
• Conclusions:
– Important to teach personal responsibility for safety.
– It will take longer for policies to be enacted in Africa: until then teens
can engage critically and anticipate dangers.

5. CYBER ENGAGE CHILDREN & TEENS ACTIVITY:
What is Digital Citizenship?
• Taking ownership of the space.
• Making positive contributions and conducting oneself in a manner that
allows other people to engage in the space and also make their
contributions. That way we maximize all the knowledge made available by
everyone’s contribution.
• One student said: “I have learnt to use the internet to help others around
me also to develop my creativity and technological sense”.
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8. CYBER ENGAGE CHILDREN & TEENS ACTIVITY:
Conclusion
• DID anticipate that Mobile
Phones would be the primary
platform: did NOT anticipate the
lack of internet know how.
• Lack of productive or proactive
use of the internet: more than
70% engagement on only
games.
• Need to showcase and
encourage social change
initiatives. (encouraged by a
young person who wants to build
a social networking site for
“under 18s” fuelled by the age AIRFORCE
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SCHOOL
restriction concern).

9. International Youth Congress on
Digital Citizenship
British Museum and New York
University in London, U.K. on the 31st
of May.
Presented By
Kingsley Bangwell
Team Leader / Founder
Youngstars Foundation
Email:
k.bangwell@youngstars-foundation.org or kntb12@yahoo.com
Website:
www.youngstars-foundation.org
Jos Plateau state, Nigeria
Mobile: +234 803 5868586

10. NIGERIA WORKING GROUPS
• 15 working groups in 12 states.
• Majority of participants were 20-26.
• Reached 285 youths nationwide.
• Many youth do not identify
themselves as “Digital Citizens”.
• Oblivious of their responsibilities in
ensuring a culture of cyber safety.
• Focus on censoring of pornographic
websites or completely banning of
such websites.
• Suggested software be developed
that censors sexually explicit
languages during online chatting.
• Need for strong and systemic digital
citizenship education by government
and IT corporations as well as
introduction of digital citizenship
education in educational curriculum.

11. CONCLUSION
• Need to continue the discussion
and ideas for possible action
towards a culture of cyber safety
among youths.
• Youngstars Foundation had
anticipated that cyber crime would
be the major subject of concern
among the youths. Instead, online
pornography was the key issue.
• Were there such unexpected
outcomes in working groups in
other countries? We would like to
share in their experiences as well.