Smriti Irani On Child & Women Safety Online| Meta Digital Suraksha Summit

0:00 there is a large segment that presumes everything that they hear on Instagram and Facebook [Music] are you spontaneous as opposed to ig I did you mull over it it seems spontaneous to me but how does it how does it work and I think Instagram has the capacity to break images and Leverage is the creative potential of a user speak sometimes without words and only

0:32 through images when there was a presentation done on autonomy of teenagers quickly Sunday and I glanced at each other as parents that when you look at the term autonomy does it bring with it a hazard of child child I believe that if you truly want to secure an engagement on a platform that is where we need to begin with so if you see that Irani till such time

1:04 she did not have an Instagram presence was known as very morbid administrator I will completely agree with you I deliberately used Instagram so that people could discover that there is something about my personality that newspapers would not tell you about so every platform has its own negatives or positives you service the needs of your customers better when you recognize the negatives

1:35 and you address them with Solutions so I'm happy that the last time I met the meta team I had some concerns about Safety and Security of women and young girls and today in your presentation you highlighted the various facets that can be used to secure the environmental platform better for female use and for the use of children the challenges we recognize how young the user is getting is it only the 16 year olds and the 18 year olds have you

2:06 ever considered a 10 year olds who have access and everything today in the presentation is about real Instagram accounts there is an ecosystem called finstars which are the fake Instagram accounts which are designed in such a fashion that if you would like to attack it's the insta version of trolling so how much do we recognize and those are aspects also that need conversations the fact that somebody especially a

2:39 young one has the mindset to know that if I want to attack somebody I can fake an Instagram account and especially if I want to attack a woman or a female colleague who's a young one at school and I think those conversations the more we have it in like I said smaller towns cities the summit truly will be more successful if we take it out of the national capital and take it to the state capitals take it to educational

3:09 institutions especially the rural segments of our society what is the framework in which we Define digital literacy there was a time where financial literacy was about opening a bank account what should financial literacy especially for women be about now if you ask me I'm in the mother to do young ladies I would rather they instead of looking for a good boy they look for a great back balance and buy themselves a house

3:41 so even the aspect of digital literacy from the time that the platform was offered to citizens to today has changed has the component of digital literacy then changed that is the one aspect we need to see and the components which make digital literacy is there a differential between what you as a platform doing digital literacy and what administrators do as digital literacy is the responsibility of a collector and a superintendent of

4:12 police the government in collaboration with all state governments runs a helpline called 1098 which is the child line but there is absolutely no symmetry between this helpline and that helpline now imagine given the power of the platform Millions on it that your helpline with the helpline the call when they're in model Danger and that child keeps calling an NGO and the NGO obviously is

4:43 in terms of Law and Order to give a immediate response so there is those gaps that still needs to be swollen over I'm mindful of the fact that meta has never addressed on administrative responsiveness but those are the issues like I said that need to get addressed and that becomes then part of digital literacy that if you know the academic institutions like schools and parent-teacher organizations have a presence would you and you voluntarily done a lot

5:15 to address the issue of safety push the 1098 number to say call this if you're in Mortal Danger now why am I saying this 1098 three years ago was run by ngos and we did a study with all the ngos that were responding when a child was in Mortal danger by the time the NGO told the police into 60 minutes and that kid imagined one hour in an emergency you're waiting for somebody to respond so that

5:44 is why if we want to service the needs of child safety with electricity we need to work with agencies that have a quick response time so in the translation between the platform and the authorities if you have intermediaries who have access to that data for us that's an alarm Bell so can you look at now making a system where you are having access to such a huge amount of

6:14 data you are committed to privacy the government and agencies in Law and Order are committed to responding responding with speed to people in danger so how can you take away the intermediarities and between the platform and those who are responsible to respond how can you bridge that Gap is something I'm sure that you can reflect on because remember there is a large segment that presumes everything that they hear

6:47 on Instagram and Facebook is Photoshop now if you say as a country as a collector you are coming together to set the agenda for 25 years from now we would like to hear the voices of the young ones we are working for what is the kind of nation state they hope to be a part of 25 years from now they are the important generation as they call them first budget of that particular amritical was just presented

7:15 when I put forth this request what it in turn does it compels the young ones to at least look at the national budget because many of us never imagine that a youngster would sit and look at the details in the National budget for them the budget happens the elders discuss it Financial Pages or financially based television channels debated and it's done

7:46 but that budget lays the very Financial Foundation of a future they are going to be a part of so I'm glad that Metra has taken up that request is going to reach out to youngsters across the country to say tell us what do you see now that will help fulfill the vision of what you want of the nation state 25 years from now so I'm hoping that young students across the country will contribute and whoever is shortlisted by meta we in the

8:17 ministry and Child Development are more than happy then to take this group of youngsters to the Indian Parliament to see the presidential Palace to see the prime minister's Museum where all the prime ministers who have served our country their journey is housed Under One Roof we hope that this engagement with the youngsters in our country tell them that government is here to serve them not only now but also in the future it is for the youngsters to take the power

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