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Cybersecurity: ANTIC takes anti cybercrime message to college, university teachers in North West

By Bakah Derick 


The National Agency for Information and Communication Technologies (ANTIC) shall assemble Secondary School And University teachers from across the North-West Region in Bamenda for a three-day seminar on "Cybersecurity and the fight against Cybercrime." The seminar to run from the 27-29 October 2021 is taking place under the theme "teachers, vectors of cybersecurty best practices for an enlightened youth." 
Prof. Ebot Ebot Enaw, General Manager ANTIC 

According to the General Manager of ANTIC Prof. Ebot Ebot Enaw the seminar will "equip teachers and lecturers with skills needed to integrate cybersecurity in ICT courses, in a bid to educate youths -principal users of ICTs, on the dangers inherent in the usage of these new technologies." 

The seminar will feature several modules amongst them general concepts on cybercrime, legal framework and human rights, privacy and data protection, digital forensics and cybercrime, ICTs for education and challenges in the COVID-19 era." 

The seminar falls within ANTIC's mission of securing national cyberspace. 

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