With cybercrime continuing on an upward trend, the Ndola Hub is currently working on a cybersecurity awareness and online safety programme to raise awareness about the importance of cybersecurity among digital platform users. The hub has designed a programme for this project that runs on two local radio stations twice a week and also conducts road shows centred on cybersecurity awareness. This programme seeks to provide a roadmap necessary to ensure the digital world is safe for and respectful of the rights of people in local communities.

It separates its obligations into ten subject areas to support the implementation of the following key international agreements and frameworks:

• the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)


• the UNCRC General comment No.25 (2021) on children's rights in the digital environment


• WeProtect Global Alliance Model National Response


• the International Telecommunication Union's Guidelines on Child Online Protection

However, this programme does not seek to replace any existing regional, national or international agreements and frameworks, but rather provides best practice examples from around the world, signposts detailed approaches across each policy area, and sets out the actions that individuals and teams charged with the task of protecting children online must take. As such it is a tool for policy makers from across the world to embrace the obligations that they already have. The Ndola hub collaborates with the Zambia Information, Communication and Technology Agency (ZICTA) and other network providers.