PLDT Home, Google promote internet safety via kid-oriented online series

Following its partnership announcement to even further bolster endeavours in educating Filipino little ones and people about net basic safety and digital duty, the Philippines’ leading home broadband and electronic services service provider PLDT Property and Google joined forces in creating a kid-oriented movie series on the internet.  

The Be Internet Wonderful on the web collection brings together animation and live-motion — featuring Gen Alpha whiz Sam and his trusty buddy Robo-berto in entertaining-filled but enlightening adventures on how to be sensible, warn, potent, kind, and courageous on the net. The sequence is based mostly on the values of Google’s Be Web Great worldwide application and is directed by Manny Angeles, an award-winning director, and producer of child-oriented and animated exhibits.   

Available in the two English and Filipino in the Philippines, Be Online Brilliant aims to teach kids the fundamentals of leading a electronic existence which incorporates what sort of facts to put up on social media and how to deal with cyberbullying amid other people. This is component of the several initiatives of Google to assist maintain persons risk-free on the net.   

“Our kids are accurate digital natives. They grew up with the world-wide-web and almost everything the digital planet has to offer. But as they broaden their horizons for discovery and understanding, it also exposes them to challenges and dangers,” said Jeremiah de la Cruz, Senior Vice President and Head of Client Property Team, PLDT Inc.  

The executive included that by means of this original series, PLDT Household desires to translate the teachings from Google’s Be Internet Amazing method into an entertaining and practical demonstrate that children can take pleasure in looking at although understanding about on the net protection early on.

“PLDT Home’s partnership with Google for Be Net Magnificent aligns with our larger sized group-large commitment: to strengthen purchaser-centricity. At PLDT, we not only find ways to simplify engineering and experience for our buyers, but we also try to do company responsibly by putting their security and nicely-becoming at the forefront of all our products and solutions and services,” claimed Alfredo S. Panlilio, President and CEO of PLDT Inc. And Intelligent Communications, Inc.  

In 2021, PLDT also invested about P2 billion in cybersecurity and security filtering. The country’s premier integrated telco has due to the fact been active in detecting, responding, and protecting against domain and content-level access to baby sexual abuse product (CSAM) inside the community. 

PLDT’s Baby Defense Platform has blocked nearly 300,000 URLs joined CSAM by the close of May possibly and prevented additional than a billion attempts to access these unlawful internet sites from November final 12 months to May perhaps this 12 months.  

“After launching Be Net Wonderful in 2021 in the Philippines, we are happy to have observed a like-minded partner in PLDT who champions the same values when it will come to defending kids on the web. Via PLDT and more likely companions in the long term, we hope to scale Be Web Wonderful and offer much more households with a functional way of training digital basic safety and wellness to their kids so they can turn into liable, self-confident explorers of the on line globe,” said Bernadette Nacario, Country Director of Google Philippines.  

The Be Internet Brilliant on the internet collection premiered on the PLDT Dwelling YouTube channel on July 8.