NCERT, UNESCO launch e-Raksha competition for students, teachers, parents

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Under Artcade, students will have to send in drawings, paintings, comics, memes, stickers, and even comic strips depicting what online safety means to them. Students can choose topics related to bullying, vishing, malware etc. Under Tech Avishkar, participants can create software, hardware, or firmware on the theme ‘digital citizenship and online safety’. The innovation must address a problem faced in cyberspace, such as privacy issues, safety, trolling, online fraud, etc.

The Word Hack or writing competition will receive entries from school students on short stories and essays. For college students and parents, the competition will be on articles, blogs and research paper writing. The theme for this will also be ‘digital citizenship and online safety’.

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In the screen masters’ programme, students and teachers will have to make documentaries and interview with a string message aligning with the theme. Concepts like privacy, trolling security tops will be accepted. The project can be either in Hindi or in English.

For the Cyber Peace Honours award, people across categories who think they have put efforts to promote online safety can register themselves and winners will be conferred with prizes.

The registration process will begin soon at eraksha.net. Winners will be selected in each category for all the competitions. A participation certificate will be given to all, appreciation certificates for those shortlisted and trophies to the winners.