The Cyber Welfare Program empowers you to defend against online threats by building your “digital antibodies” through core concepts of Privacy, Security, and Anonymity
Program Key Elements:
Privacy: Learn how to safeguard your personal information and control what you share online. Master the tools and techniques to protect your identity from unauthorized access.
Security: Develop robust skills to secure your devices, networks, and data. From managing strong passwords to recognizing phishing attempts, you’ll gain essential tools for a secure digital presence.
Anonymity: Learn to navigate the Internet without leaving traces. Explore secure browsers, encrypted communications, and strategies for protecting your digital footprint.
The program’s holistic approach ensures that you gain:
Awareness: Recognize potential threats and vulnerabilities in your digital activities.
Resilience: Build habits and skills that reduce risks and help recover from incidents effectively.
Empowerment: Take control of your online interactions with confidence and safety.
This initiative isn’t just about responding to threats—it’s about proactively creating a safer and more private digital environment for yourself and others.
Program's main lines of action
ENGAGE AND HELP PEOPLE WHIT PRIVACY AND SECURITY
A primary target audience of the program are people with low privacy and security knowledge and skills
SELECT AND PUBLISH VALUABLE EDUCATIONAL GUIDES
Provide guides, articles, posts of software that protects privacy, security and communications
PROMOTE AND SPONSOR INSTRUCTORS OF PRIVACY AND SECURITY
Expand the network for fruitful cooperation. Engage with us and develop an innovative training path
Program Tailored to students' needs
HOW IT WORKS
Cyber Welfare uses an innovative program based on a model known as a hierarchy of effects model or hierarchical model.
The model implies that a student moves through several steps or stages during his learning path.
Moving from step to step, the total number of users diminishes. This phenomenon is sometimes described as a "funnel".
LEARNING FUNNEL
As users move through the hierarchy of effects, they pass through both a cognitive processing stage and an affective processing stage before any action occurs:
Cognition (Awareness/Attention)
Affect (Feeling/ interest/ desire)
Behaviour (Action, e.g. becoming a student/ consumption/ usage/ sharing information etc.)
STUDENT FUNNEL
A relatively large number of potential users have become aware of privacy, security, and anonymity issues.
A smaller subset becomes interested, with only a relatively small proportion moving through to becoming a student. This effect is also known as a "student funnel".
CYBER WELFARE HIERARCHICAL MODEL
Using a hierarchical model, such as Cyber Welfare Program does, provides the student with all knowledge and training tools, and the instructor with a detailed understanding of how target audiences change over time.
The program evolves, providing insights into which learning messages are likely to be more effective at different stages:
Awareness: the user becomes aware of an issue (usually through social networks)
Interest: the user becomes interested in learning about program benefits & how the program fits with its lifestyle
Desire: the user develops a favourable disposition towards the Privacy, Security and Anonymity digital domains
Action: the user forms an intention to become a student and engages in a class further to develop the concepts of Privacy, Security and Anonymity
The hierarchical model operates as a stimulus (S) to the user with the social network's content, and the decision to become a student is a response (R). In other words, the model is an applied stimulus-response model.