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18/11/22 06:39 AM IST

NCW launches Digital Shakti 4.0

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  • The National Commission for Women (NCW) launched the fourth phase of Digital Shakti Campaign, a pan-India project on digitally empowering and skilling women and girls in the cyberspace recently. 
Digital Shakti Campaign 
  • The Digital Shakti Campaign is a national-level campaign that was launched in 2018 to digitally empower and skill women and girls to ensure their safety in cyberspace.
  • Through this initiative, over 3 lakh women across India have been made aware of cyber safety measures, reporting and redressal mechanisms, data privacy and technology usage.
  • The third phase of this initiative was launched in March last year. It was launched in Leh by the National Commission for Women (NCW).
  • In this phase, a Resource Center was developed to provide information about available avenues for reporting in case a woman becomes a victim of a cyber crime.
  • The Digital Shakti 4.0 aims to make women digitally skilled and aware to stand up against illegal or inappropriate activities occuring in the cyberspace.
  • It was launched by the NCW in collaboration with the CyberPeace Foundation and Meta.
Reason for launching 
  • Over the past decade, there has been a surge in the number of cybercrimes in India.
  • A majority of these crimes targeted women. Some of the reasons behind this are prevalence of huge gender inequality and the lack of digital literacy.
  • Also, most of the women who are victims of cybercrimes do not file complains due to the absence of support from family or law enforcement and the lack of awareness.
Source- PIB 

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