Cyber bullying is an instant threat to our pacific children and people and should be given zero tolerance.
Therefore a need for well-informed and balanced facts and opinions is critical in maximizing opportunities to benefit the consumers and pacific people.
Minister of Education and Human Resources Lanelle Tanangada highlighted this at the opening of the Pacific Island News Association (PINA) Summit last week in Honiara.
More than 100 media practitioners from around the region converged into Honiara for the media event.
Mrs Tanangada who is also a Supervising of Minister of Communication further highlighted that there is a need for appropriate policies, procedures and processes to ensure the regional people are not subjected to the negative effects and ultimately threats to our basic human right must be given higher importance in this digital revolution.
“The need for appropriate policies, procedures and processes to ensure our people are not subjected to the negative effects and ultimately threats to our basic human right must be given higher importance in this digital revolution.
“Cyber bullying is an instant threat to our pacific children and people and should be given zero tolerance.
“The need for well-informed and balanced facts and opinions is critical in maximizing opportunities to benefit our consumers and pacific people,” she said.
She highlighted that with the rapid advancement of digital technology and the increasing use of this technology to advance the media reach in the pacific, it is right and fitting, that the theme for this Summit was ‘the digital revolution – transforming threats into opportunities for the Pacific Media’.
She also highlighted, digital technologies around the globe involve using computerized thinking to come up with creative solutions that could lead to better ways of doing things.
“We use computational thinking every day to look at a problem, break it down into easier parts to find patterns, and come up with a systematic efficient way to solve it,” she said.
She acknowledged the Media Association of Solomon Islands (MASI) for hosting the 6th Pacific Media Summit once more after 15 years when it was last hosted by the late PINA President and Publisher of the Solomon Star, Father John Lamani and his wife Madam Catherine.
By MOFFAT MAMU
