For Immediate Release: 18h February 2015
Future Digital to sponsor 5th Annual Gulf Education
Conference & Exhibition 2015, UAE
Future Digital is delighted to announce that it will be among the sponsors
participating in this year’s prestigious 5th Annual Gulf Education Conference
taking place in Abu Dhabi from 17th-19th March.
Already established in the UK as one of the leading providers of Internet
safety products for the education sector, Future Digital specializes in providing
educational facilities with sophisticated and dynamic active monitoring
solutions designed to keep young people safe in the online environment.
Future Digital’s CEO, Ellie Puddle, said; “the Gulf Education Conference is the
ideal location for us to launch our digital safeguarding products in the United
Arab Emirates. The Internet continues to be a rapidly changing environment
with new dangers emerging on an ongoing basis and therefore it is imperative
that educators everywhere have the tools and knowledge to fulfill their duty of
care. Our products ensure that you are equipped to ensure that young people
are protected from online dangers and given the opportunity to become
responsible digital citizens”.
Future Digital has a proven commitment to providing a safer digital world by
anticipating and responding to new online dangers as they emerge. The most
recent online threat to emerge has been identified as online radicalisation with
the Internet identified as a key recruitment tool for extemist causes. In
response to this new development Future Digital has recently launched new
capability designed to monitor and protect young people from exposure to
online radicalisation.
How Future Digital’s Solution’s Work
Based on word and phrase capture and used in conjunction with an
institution’s Acceptable Use Policy Future Digital’s solutions monitor all
computer use in order to capture and record harmful digital behavior creating
an alert when a user triggers a violation. Future Digital employs a range of
highly developed libraries that are updated on a continuous basis and monitor
for exposure to the processes of radicalisation, cyber-bullying, sexual
grooming, pornography, self-harm and other online dangers.
Informed by ongoing work within the education sector Future Digital solutions
are based around a practice of early intervention designed to alert staff to
potentially harmful digital behavior before it escalates. In addition Future
Digital allows supervisory staff to monitor, record and grade students patterns
of behavior in the digital.
Software is available for use on a range of devices including PC, Mac and
iPad.
For more information please visit our website: www.futuredigital.solutions
Please direct all press queries and requests for media interviews to Sarah
Smyth at sarah.smyth@futuredigital.email