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Instead of lurking in shopping malls and parks, predators who befriend and sell children for sex now hang out on social networks like Facebook and gaming sites, said experts fighting to stay one step ahead of rapidly-evolving criminal gangs. Colombian traffickers used to pose as rich, older men promising a better life; now they pretend to be poor, troubled teenagers just like the children they target, said Sebastian Arevalo, head of anti-trafficking group Pasos Libres Foundation. “Trust is now gained through empathy and emotions,” Bogota-based Arevalo, who has talked to hundreds of students about the dangers they face online, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. “Recruiters are of similar age (to their victims). They say, ‘I too have problems at school and with my parents’, ‘I’ve also broken up with my partner’.” From the United States to the Philippines, a soaring number of young people are being trafficked online, fuelled by the … [Read more...] about Grooming is gateway to child sex trafficking as ‘seducing’ moves online

The seminar titled “Training reality of e-learning education in Vietnam, trend in the world, and factors helping e-learning education development” was a part of the national-level project “ Researching learning methodologies based on e-learning in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs): World’s experience and applications in Vietnam”. Speeches about trends of e-learning education in the world and lessons learnt by Vietnam’s educational facilities, reality of e-learning application in Vietnam, advantages and challenges of e-learning education and policies on e-learning development in Vietnam presently were delivered at the seminar. According to Deputy Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Van Phuc, the Ministry will collect opinions from participants and experts in the field which is vital to the process of policy-making of e-learning and MOOCs in Vietnam. By HUNG MINH - Translated by UYEN PHUONG Tags: Seminar on e-learning education … [Read more...] about Ministry organizes seminar to discuss e-learning policies

A board with a touch screen being used at a primary school in Binh Duong Province. (Source: VNA) HCM City (VNA) - The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training has sought approval from the People’s Committee for piloting a “smart schools” programme based extensively on IT use in management and communication between schools and students’ families.  Nguyen Van Hieu, the department’s deputy director, told the Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper that the programme is one of the steps in preparing for a smart city by 2020.  Districts 1, 2 and 12 have been chosen for the trialling, he said. The smart schools would have teachers trained to fluently use touch-screen boards and design e-learning lessons, and they would use and contribute to creating open databases for teaching, he said.  They would be encouraged to use software to help their students do virtual experiments, he said.  Contests for students would be designed to be done … [Read more...] about HCM City to pilot ’smart schools’

As digital transformation applies advanced technologies to analyze and change current data forms into the digital one, it often utilizes cloud computing and reduces the dependence on hardware. In the recent event VNG CLOUD TECHDAY 2019 held in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), several opinions have been raised as to how to take better advantage of cloud-based services to carry out this process. According to Director of Human Resources in Phu My Hung Corp. Michael Chien, in the past, the staff monitoring task totally depended on handwriting and paper, which unfortunately cost so much time and effort yet yielded how results. However, thanks to the infrastructure of a cloud solution, VNG CLOUD, his organization is able to better control the quantity of workers at each site and closely monitor working safety. Similarly, VTV Digital (a member of Vietnam Television) always faces the challenge of meeting subscribers’ demands at peak hours and on special occasions like SEA Games 30. Formerly, it … [Read more...] about Digital transformation attracting increasing attention in Vietnam