IBM announced that it will release free Internet safety training tools for students and have volunteers working to help raise awareness and educate students and businesses on Internet safety and digital responsibility.

IBM is donating to the world three valuable resource and volunteer kits to better educate students, parents and teachers in conjunction with Safer Internet Day (SID2012), which falls on February 7.

Control Your Online Identity - A volunteer education kit is designed to help teenagers learn to protect personal data online and reputation online. Teenagers are typically savvy about how to use the Internet, but often unaware about what happens to personal data once it's shared.

This presentation and volunteer information helps students learn how to protect personal data and control how they present themselves online.

Internet Safety Coaching - Aimed at teachers or adults working with children, this is a general primer on Internet safety providing basic information about common Internet activities by young people including instant messaging and social networking.

This kit is designed to raise awareness of Internet safety and how to have meaningful and open dialogue with children on this topic.

Cyberbullying -- Aimed at parents or adults who work with children, this activity helps adults learn about how young people use the Internet today and how to recognize cyberbullying symptoms, how to prevent online bullying from happening and how to intervene if it does happen.

“IBMers are committed to help educate people on the responsible ways to use the Internet in a safe and secure fashion,” said Harriet Pearson, IBM security counsel and chief privacy officer.

“The resources we are donating to the world today are a step to partner with teachers and parents to raise awareness that most Internet-based threats to individual and computer security can significantly be reduced by actions that informed users take themselves."

Safer Internet Day is part of a global drive by awareness-raising partners to promote a safer Internet for all users, especially young people. It is organised by INSAFE in the framework of the European Commission’s Safer Internet Programme. – TradeArabia News Service