Of all the kids who use the internet, one out of every five get high risk sexual advances.

Almost 60% of the chatters who are kids, convey information about their family to unknown sources. Almost 25% of the people who search the net, search for pornographic sites. Almost 79% of the adolescents aer somehow involved in the pornographic web.

Almost 90% of teenage males and 70% of teenage girl browse different pornographic sites. The most important thing out of all this aer the sites which promote child sex pictures. For this reason, to save children from such, Bangladesh needs to come up with various laws and software innovations and this is hightime to come up with a suitable solution.

In the aspect of World Telecommunicationa and Information Day, all the above information were put up infront of those present in the roundtable on saving children who use the cyber web. Soputh Asian Mobile Forum and Dainik Shomokal organized this roundtable.

The discussers said that if they need to combat this, the country needs to enact laws against cyber usage by children or the parents need to be more informed and monitor their children’s habits.

They said that even thought ICT 2006 ACT is present, it is not widely known yet. They can shut off what the Military had talked with the Prime Minister, but they cannot stop the pornographic sites that children visit to?
When it comes to politics, then steps are taken immediately but when it comes to the national interest, no such steps are made!

So ti is necesarry to come forward and stop and combat this situation for the basic rights of the children. So to save the children, new laws have to be enacted. Apart from giving technological knowledge to them, we should also look into their safety over the cyyber arena.

You must remember that now 98 percent of the population is accesing the mobiel phone and soemtimes they have internet access there. Children have to be saved in this aspect as well.

The discussants further added that we are providing itnernet to the children but we are not providing them the security and guidance, we are not giving them the materials that they could gain knowledge from. The books are not there in time and it is only natural that the kids aer going to go to pornographic sites when there is nothing better to do.

The family, the community and the internet service providers can save themselves from the pornographic sites which are browsed by the children.

Participants of the roundtable discussants were: Golam Sarwar the editor of Doinik Shomokal, Bangladesh Computer Samity President Mostafa Jabbar, South Asia Mobile Forum Chairman Mehbub Chowdhury. AKTel advisor and ex president of mobile operators association Fazlur Rahman, NGO’s Khushi Kobir, CityCell Chief Technical Officer Mcheal Simore, Bangla Lion advisor Parvez Ahmed, ex president of BCS Abdullah H Kafi. BCS secretary Habibullah N Karim, ex president of ISP Association of Bangladesh Abdus Salam, CEO of Amader Gram Reza Selim, and Spinovation’s T.I.M Nurul Kabir.