The deputy delegate of the Government in A Coruña, María Rivas, visited this morning the INCIBE Experience stand installed in the Socio-Cultural Center of Negreira, where she was accompanied by the mayor of the town Manuel Angel Leis and members of the government team.
The INCIBE (National Cybersecurity Institute) experience stand is a travelling initiative designed to raise awareness about cybersecurity. It is available in three zones: informative, demonstrative and training, and gamification zone. The objective is to raise awareness and educate citizens, families and companies about the importance of cybersecurity.
The subdelegate indicated that during their stay in the different locations, visitors will be able to access information on cybersecurity and resolve doubts; attend practical demonstrations and workshops to learn how to protect themselves in the digital world; and also includes playful activities and interactive games to learn cybersecurity in a fun way.
A fundamental aspect of the activities is also the dissemination of the telephone 017, a line managed by INCIBE to resolve doubts or make complaints, and thus help users in everything related to cybersecurity. A telephone line attended by experts, in which the anonymity of calls is guaranteed, to which anyone can turn in between 9 and 21 hours.
Thus, both minors and adults will be able to learn by playing, testing their knowledge in cybersecurity, through the challenges and games offered by the CyberScouts application. They will demonstrate who has the most cybersecurity culture and, above all, they will acquire new skills to make safer use of Internet services.
During the stay in Negreira, the stand has an expert in cybersecurity who will offer advice and information on all the services of INCIBE, in particular those aimed at citizens and minors (also parents, educators or other professionals in their environment).
The subdelegate reported that this is the first of a series of activities that will be developed in the province from the National Institute of Cybersecurity, an agency dependent on the Ministry of Digital Transformation and Public Function through the Secretary of State for Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence.
Thus during the month of October, this INCIBE EXPERIENCE stand will be present in Padrón on 15 and 16 October at the IES Camilo José Cela; in Boiro on 18 and 19 October; in Vimianzo on 22 and 23 October at the Casa de la Cultura; in the Sierra de Outes on 29 and 30 October at the Municipal Pavilion and in Santiago de Compostela on 6 and 7 November at Ciber.gal.
The Road Show truck is also scheduled to visit Santiago between the 6th and 8th of November. A drop-down truck that is traveling throughout Spain to train all citizens (from families and minors to senior citizens) in cybersecurity.
This initiative is carried out within the framework of the funds of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, financed by the European Union (Next Generation).
The subdelegate wanted to stress the importance of knowing not only the advantages, but also the risks involved in the use of technologies. In this line, he encouraged the people who visit the INCIBE stand to transmit the acquired knowledge to their environment to help in the use of new technologies, especially of the newest people and the elderly.
In this regard, he recalled that since the subdelegation of the Government, training in cybersecurity is also part of the offer of the School Coexistence Master Plan, and stressed that in the previous year the greatest number of activities were developed within the field of cybersecurity and access to new information technologies, with a total of 1,512 actions in the educational centers of the province of A Coruña.