11 October 2005
British and Cambodian governments have joined forces to provide vital Internet training to help tackle the problem of child exploitation.
Teaming up with Microsoft, the two countries are aiming to develop an Internet training programme to increase the ability of local organisations to use the web as a tool to deal with crimes against children.
Cambodia's law enforcement officials and humanitarian workers will be taught basic Internet skills as well as information on network security.
"The UK Government is committed to combating child sex abuse and prostitution, including through the medium of the Internet," said Foreign Office minister Dr Kim Howells MP, in a statement to Publictechnology.net
"This joint initiative with the Cambodian Government and Microsoft is an excellent example of the public and private sectors joining forces to stamp out the evil abuse of innocent children," he added.
Microsoft and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office are providing the funding for the project.
Units from the UK's National Crime Squad and IT experts from Microsoft will provide the training.
Cambodia is one of the poorest countries in the world where almost half the population live on a dollar a day or less.
Most officials working in law enforcement would never have accessed the Internet or even used a computer before this new training scheme was implemented.
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