91% of Australian teens have a phone – but many are not keeping their identity and location secure

Halfpoint/ Shutterstock , CC BY Yeslam Al-Saggaf, Charles Sturt University and Julie Maclean, Charles Sturt University Most Australian teenagers have their own smartphone. According to a 2023 survey, 91% of young people between 14 and 17 owned a phone. At the same time, there is huge community concern about young people being exposed to harms online – this includes the content they consume and the interactions they might have. But there is also concern about their privacy and security. A 2023 UK study found teenagers are overly optimistic about the degree to which they can protect their personal information online. This is a problem because smartphones can communicate information such as identities and locations when settings are not figured correctly. Our new project – which has been funded by the eSafety Commissioner and will soon be available online – looked at how to teach students to be safer with their phones. What are the risks? Without changing the default settings, a phone (or smart watch, laptop or tablet) can share information such as full names, current...

Read More........ → November 06, 2024

Young businessmen should be taught entrepreneurial skills

President Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives’ Supervisory Board on Tuesday. He spoke about the need to teach young entrepreneurs how to launch, develop and advance technological companies and how to steer them into the market. The agency was set up two years ago on Putin’s personal initiative to support socially significant projects in the innovative sector. Six projects have been approved since and made remarkable headway. Putin urges prosecutors to better protect children’s rights Prosecutor's offices must give serious attention to the defense of minors'  rights and to programs to provide orphaned children with housing, said President Vladimir Putin. "The defense of minors' rights must remain under special control. The situation leaves much to be desired here. We are working intensively with civil society, and we instruct governments at all levels to support the family and to defend children's rights. You must join this work within the framework of your duties," Putin told senior officials of the Prosecutor General's Office....

Read More........ → March 06, 2013

High skilled immigration bill introduced in US Congress

Targeting highly skilled talents from India and China, a bi-partisan group of US lawmakers have introduced a new bill in the Congress to create more than 125,000 new visas to attract global talents to America. The bill called Startup 3.0 proposes to help increase America's access to talent by creating a new set of conditional visas for 75,000 immigrant entrepreneurs and 50,000 foreign STEM (Science technology, engineering and math) graduate students.This will create half a million new American jobs, claimed authors of the bill, early this week. The bill has the support of top US companies and organisations like Microsoft, Google, National Small Business Association (NSBA), CTIA, Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), Financial Services Forum, Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA), TechAmercia, Information Technology Industry (ITI), Compete America, Silicon Valley Leadership Group, and TechNet. Startup 3.0 allows qualified companies to apply research and development tax credits to their payroll tax liability, up to $250,000. For small startups, it also makes permanent...

Read More........ → February 17, 2013