The government delegate in Galicia, Pedro Blanco, highlighted this morning in Vigo the government’s commitment to the digital training of young people “to combat hate speech on the networks”. Pedro Blanco visited one of the formations of the Digital Camps Program promoted by the Ministry of Youth and Childhood and in collaboration, in collaboration with the Cybervolunteers Foundation. He was accompanied by the Councilor for Education of Vigo, Olga Alonso, and by the head of Social and Cultural Incidence of the entity, Antonio Pulido.
Pedro Blanco stressed that these courses “represent a democratic need” to protect new people from the dangers of the Internet, promote their critical thinking and, at the same time, learn to enjoy technology. “The Government acts to promote an inclusive, plural and respectful society, counteracting the advance of hate speech with education, data and promotion of democratic values,” said the delegate, who in this regard also stressed the need for proper digital training, “because educating in values and digital security is investing in the future and in the progress of a country.”
Digital camps
For all these reasons, Pedro Blanco thanked the Cybervolunteers Foundation for its work to carry out the Digital Camps initiative such as what is carried out in Vigo and in thousands of towns and cities in Galicia and throughout Spain, as well as highlighting the close collaboration of the Olivico city council to develop these activities by providing several of its facilities.
“With these Digital Camps, which we finance from the Government with the Recovery Plan, we are going to reach 4,400 Galicians, more than 400 in Vigo alone,” said Pedro Blanco. By province, in Pontevedra about 1,370 boys and girls will be trained, in Lugo there will be 570 beneficiaries and beneficiaries, in Ourense they receive and receive training about 650 and in A Coruña they will exceed 1,800 young and female users.
The Digital Skills Program for Children, which promotes these camps, is endowed with 220 M€ of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan. With it, the Ministry of Youth and Childhood trains 950,000 minors throughout Spain. The Digital Camps, which are promoted through these lines, respond to the need for children and young people to have adequate tools to develop in an increasingly digitalized environment. The objective is to train in the safe and responsible use of technology, enhance digital talent and promote critical thinking among the newest, with special attention to those in situations of greater digital vulnerability, since these activities are completely free for users.