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Comcast Partners With iKeepSafe
Cable television giant Comcast announced a partnership with the Internet Keep Safe Coalition (iKeepSafe) at the Family Online Safety Institute conference on Thursday. The new relationship will provide parents and teachers with tips, tools and resources to promote cyber safety awareness.
Comcast and iKeepSafe will also partner with state attorneys general, local community groups and with medical and public health organizations to bring a Web safety campaign to communities served by the cable provider.
"The Internet is a great place that can bring people and communities closer together, but we also want to make sure that young people grow up knowing how to use the Internet safely and responsibly," Comcast Vice President Joe Waz said in a press release. Waz also spoke at an afternoon panel at the FOSI conference.
To promote the partnership, Comcast's booth at the summit was staffed by a life-sized McGruff the Crime Dog and Faux Paw the Techno Cat. The characters also roamed around during lunch, posing for pictures with attendees -- including one journalist who will remain nameless (It wasn't me. I'm freaked out by giant, costumed humans.)
Posted by Andrew on December 6, 2007 03:37 PM | Permalink
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