Safety of youngest net users a priority

THE digital market holds huge potential for further economic growth and employment opportunities across Europe and can be an innovative learning tool for young people.

In Ireland, we encourage tech-savvy graduates and offer specialist college courses to meet labour market demands. It is vital that our young people are practiced internet users. The internet also exposes them to a world of danger, which we, as parents and lawmakers, have a duty to protect them from.

Most parents are well aware of the most serious dangers posed by the cyber world in terms of sexual predators who seek access to young people. There are also other aspects concerning social internet usage that we need to be conscious of.