“I am worried about digital crime. People have to get into action mode to ensure they don’t fall for it,” Jim Stolze explains the launch of the online course Unlock Digital Resilience.
Normally, Stolze is all about inspiring, informing and moderating, but in his opinion the Netherlands is in danger. The wave of digital threats continues to grow and too little is happening.
With the experience of his National AI & Ethics course, for which half a million people registered, he developed a national digital resilience course.
To compile the course material, an advisory board was put together, led by his Lowercase Foundation, with experts from organizations such as the Consumers’ Association, Fraud Help Desk, Hackshield, Meta, Network Media Literacy, Police, Rutgers, SeniorWeb, SIDN Fund and Safe Internet.
Starting today, a new course will be online every month with a specific theme. Now it is WhatsApp fraud, next time it will be phishing, malware, sextortion and fake news. Each month has its own campaign color (this month: yellow) and new course material comes online every Tuesday.
Meta, NU.nl and Ocean Outdoor make free advertising space available in the context of the higher goal. Resilience. “If you are not resilient, it hinders digital ambitions,” the initiator at Portus Meridiem secondary school in South Rotterdam told Emerce.
Dave Maasland from security company ESET: “When it comes to security, I have seen the view change from ‘lack of knowledge to lack of perspective’. People are aware that there are dangers, but are looking for a perspective for action. What should you do and when?”
KPN, director Marieke Snoep explains, supports the initiative through volunteers who organize information evenings in libraries and in its own stores. The Royal Library distributes information to all libraries in the country. FutureNL does this towards the four thousand schools it is in contact with.
Unlock Digital Resilience runs for twelve months with twelve course blocks. Anyone who wants to take a course block will spend up to two hours at a time.
In addition to KPN, ING is at the basis of Unlock Digital Resilience.
Source: www.emerce.nl
