Cyber Welfare Society- for the welfare of all

Brain Child behind the NGO

A young Cyber Security expert realized that the cyber space is not safe for its users and decided it best to do something about it. He contacted various people and formed an NGO called Cyber Welfare Society of India. The team started the first Cyber Welfare Society of India in Indore, Madhya Pradesh.

Shakeel Anjum shares the drive that inspired him to create this NGO-

I belong to the cyber security background and completed the masters from the best college in india for the same.
Our teachers used to give examples of crimes made using virtual world and technology. I did a little survey and realised that youth are not aware of that these at all and will not be for long time.
This was going to eventually harm our country a lot. That turned me to quit thinking about my job and aware people to reduce cyber crimes.

Cyber Security expert Shakeel Anjum is the founder member of the society along with the team of Group of IT experts Tushar Bharthare, Chirag Purohit, Yogesh Pandit, Networking expert Bhanu Yadav and Legal Advisor Advocate Aehetesham Hasan Siddiqui.

With the help of various experts and advisors, the first Indian Cyber welfare Society will be helping women, youth and old people. For this, they will be posting various articles, posts, blogs and even tweets reaching out to a maximum number of people through as many as social mediums possible. The main aim of the NGO is to create a safe cyberspace for people. For this, they will be posting various articles, posts, blogs and even tweets reaching out to maximum number of people through as many as social mediums possible.

Cyber security expert  Shakeel Anjum says that United States being a developed country is very cautious about cyber security and has strong measures and policies regarding it. Even then, the site ‘Wikileaks’ had leaked sensitive files online. This scene had disturbed the United States. This incidence shows that ‘how important cyber security’ is for an individual person as well as for the country as a whole.

Contribution towards making Cyber Space safe for Women

The team will be helping women free of cost.

“In our 3 year’s of journey we have noticed that the numbers of women are much higher than the men as a victim The criminals find women as easy target and hence, awareness about the cyber crimes among women is of utmost importance” says Shakeel Anjum.

Most of the cyber crimes against women are related to cyber stalking, obscenity and fake profiles. Cyber crime is that one problem rising at a global level against which strong measures are necessary. With the developments in the Information Technology sector, such crimes are increasing at a faster rate. And most women users do not find the cyberspace safe. And the majority of them has been a victim of some of the other type of cyber crime.

With the help of various experts and advisors, this first Indian Cyber welfare Society will be helping women and be given tips and advice on ‘how to tackle cyber crimes’. We want to put a light on some of the crimes that women users have been a victim of and under which sections the criminal can be punished.

1) Cyber Stalking

This is the most common crime women have been a victim of. To follow, to irritate, to stare to the extent of making the person angry and scared is called stalking. When this is done on the internet, it is called cyber stalking. Sending unwanted messages, again and again, having a look at every status update, irritating by calling them, internet monitoring all these come under the category of this crime. This is a punishable offense under the section 345 D of IPC.

2) Cyber Obscenity And Pornography

In this, the criminals get obscene pictures or videos of young girls and upload them on a public platform or even blackmail them with the pictures. There are times when the pictures are morphed with the help of various softwares. The criminal’s main motive to commit such a crime is to blackmail, defame the person and to harass them. Such crime can be filed under the section 67 and 67 A. Sending obscene photos, obscene emails, morphing photos to obscene standards etc. is a punishable crime under the same section.

3) Cyber Spying

Under the section 66 of IT Act, cyber spying i,e installing cameras in washrooms, changing rooms of various of women at various public places like hotels, malls, restaurants etc. is a punishable crime.

4) Cyber bullying

Bullying of women in the virtual world is another serious crime which comes forth in types of cyber crimes. Women are being bullied by various ways. Where the criminal at first tries to be on friendly terms with them, gets closer and tries to get their pictures and then morph them and blackmail them or defame them.

Cyber Crimes in India

Not all cyber crimes are being reported because people are not aware of how to deal with them nor do they trust that a satisfactory solution will be found. We don’t have a highly efficient cyber crime department yet or crime investigators and judges who are specialized in cyber crimes in large numbers . But, times are changing, thanks to Digital India.

Usually, the people committing crimes on cyberspace feel that they will be anonymous and wouldn’t get caught. This is not true. Easy availability of internet and usage of  smart phones and data card by all has caused an increase in such crimes. So its awareness is highly necessary.

How Cyber Welfare Society of India aims to improves the situation

Cyber Welfare Society will be spreading awareness to people especially women, youth and old people with all possible online help regarding the crime they have been a victim of. Indian women and youth have been targets of various types of cyber crimes of the criminals. Yes, there are agencies which are working to reduce such crimes and put such criminals behind the bars, but they have their own speed and the crimes are increasing too fast.

The main aims of Cyber Welfare Society India are:

• To spread awareness about cyber crimes
• To make people aware of how one can avoid being a victim
• Help the victims get justice
• Make the cyberspace safe
  

Shakeel Anjum –

“Making an NGO is a predefined procedure which we need to follow to get registered in their portal, so not many difficulties were faced. However, implementation of any plan is always difficult, we need to assist individuals to play their role in better way.

Most difficult part was to make people aware about the crimes as it was a completely technical issue . But we have educated the people of more than 50 cities in 3 different states by workshop.”

 

So what can WE ALL do?

• Be careful while sharing private information to someone stranger in the virtual world.
• Make sure whether the changing rooms/bathrooms do not have any device installed.
• Whenever necessary, do not hesitate to ask any sort of help from various cyber experts

You can always contact the Cyber Welfare Society on their various social media accounts.

Cyber Welfare Society can be contacted through the following:
Facebook.  :  www.facebook.com/cyberwelfares
Twitter.      :  www.twitter.com/cyberwelfares
Email          :  cyberwelfares@gmail.com ;

Shakeel Anjum invites interested experts in the field to join hands with them and spread the knowledge as far as possible.

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