LIME to celebrate Safer Internet Day

Jamaica's sole provider of advanced wired and wireless Internet service, LIME, will tomorrow turn its focus toward safe and responsible use of the technology as part of the global observation of Safer Internet Day (SID).

LIME will again join hundreds of international organisations across the world to spread the word and build awareness especially among young people.

Safer Internet Day 2014, with the theme 'Let's create a better Internet together', will offer the opportunity to focus on both the creative things that children and young people are doing online, as well as the role that we all play in helping to create a better Internet.

According to LIME's CEO, Garfield Sinclair, "As a responsible Internet service provider our commitment to a positive overall online experience does not stop at the point of reliably delivering the service. We feel duty-bound to go farther by informing users about safe usage of the Internet so that they may protect themselves and their loved ones."

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Recent incidents of disturbing images of sexual deviance and physical violence involving under-aged children and teenagers on the Internet have prompted the telecoms provider to launch a variety of activities to equip and empower adolescents about the dos and don'ts of online behaviour.

On Safer Internet Day, LIME will deliver an interactive presentation about creating a positive online experience to students at the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) in St Andrew and the Herbert Morrison High school in Montego Bay in the presence of ministers of government and educators.

The company's Facebook page: www.facebook.com/LIMEJamaica will commemorate the day by challenging young people to think about what more they can do to make the Internet a safer place.