Google at the virtual Google for India event on August 25 launch an updated Google Safety Centre in eight Indic languages and introduced an online safety-focussed programme ‘Be Internet Awesome’ for kids in India.
The programme that is already live in some countries which includes an interactive experience called ‘Interland’ to help children learn the fundamentals of online safety while playing free arcade games.
Google also announce a partnership with Indian comic book publisher Amar Chitra Katha to bring online safety content in popular comic book characters across eight Indian languages.
This new announcements from Google are aim at bolstering Internet safety among Indian users.
The updated Google Safety Centre is design as a single destination dedicated to educating users about digital safety and help them secure their accounts.
It also includes the ‘My Activity’ hub that users can access to review, control, and delete the activities saved to their Google accounts to improve safety. Google claim that particularly the ‘My Activity’ hub received over a billion visits by Indian users in the first half of 2021 alone.
The updated Google Safety Centre has receive new Indian languages support.
Google has initially offer the Safety Centre in Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam, Kannada, and Telugu, with Bengali, Tamil, and Gujarati to roll out by the end of the year.
Google also launch the ‘Be Internet Awesome’ programme in English and Hindi languages to help children, families, and educators in India learn about the basics of online safety.
This programme also includes the ‘Interland’ experience that essentially has a collection of games to help kids learn digital safety and how they can safeguard valuable information, one-up cyber bullies, and spot what’s real and what’s fake.
The experience will also be extends to Amar Chitra Katha’s popular series across eight Indian languages to help educate the masses about digital safety practices.
Google additionally announce that it had “significantly” expands Google Play support teams in the country to work better with its partners and users in the country on various areas, including user safety.
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