Officials of internet café associations and operators in Mindanao, the Philippines (the most southern point of the Philippines) will meet in the City of Davao for the Second Mindanao Internet Café Association Summit (MICAS) on February 18 and 19, 2010.

As the most internet cafe customers in Mindanao are children, the Second Mindanao Internet Cafe Associations Summit aims to be the venue for the adoption of the “Davao Declaration On Online Child Safety” which will define the initiatives of the different internet cafe associations in the promotion of safe browsing by children in internet cafes. Discussions at the summit will lead to an increase in awareness of the great responsibility of internet cafe operators as ICT access centers at the community level in ensuring the online safety of their customers.

Source: 2nd MICAS To Define Online Child Safety in I-Cafes, I-Café Philipinas, January 14, 2010

Tags: The Philippines, Internet cafes, online child safety