HelpAge Conducts Digital Safety Training for Elders
HelpAge India, Hyderabad conducted a training program in the Association of Senior Citizens, Hyderabad in Lions Bhavan on 24th March 2023. They have rich experience in this area, having trained more than 700 seniors in AP & Telangana. The project is sponsored by Microsoft. Some thirty people participated.
Sri Yatindra, Sri Puli Shyam and two others conducted the event. Printed course material was distributed along with a notepad and very attractive Woody Flair pen. Supported by a well-designed concise ppt, Shyam explained many aspects of safe digital usage including: creating a strong password, safe banking online, protecting the mobile / laptop, scam identification, WhatsApp safety etc. I noticed that he could reel out item by item or line by line everything we will see via Settings App in Android phone without any paper / mobile to refer!
HelpAge also took this opportunity to felicitate / honour Dr P Vyasamoorthy who has pioneered in using Information Technology for uniting the senior citizens community via the first ever Yahoo group (later Google Group) for seniors called SSS Global. He said the SSSG set up 21 years ago has now 207 members where more than half are even now active. This group once had 1400 members, 700 for several years and was number ONE for some years since 2014. Dr Vyasamoorthy thanked HelpAge, AOSC and everyone for the honour & kindness extended, while fondly recollecting the history and growth of SSS G
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