About Initiative for Education
Making the world safer for exchanging digital information with Digital Safety Outreach
Overview
In 2017 Trend Micro’s CEO, Eva Chen, established the Trend Micro Initiative for Education to strengthen our efforts on user awareness and digital safety education. The parent initiative supports 3 digital safety outreach programs:
- Internet Safety for Kids & Families (ISKF)
- Internet Safety for Home & Small Businesses (IHSB)
- Cybersecurity Education for Universities (CEU)
Since its launch in 2008, the first program, Internet Safety for Kids & Families (ISKF), has reached millions thanks to our network of almost 1,000 passionate volunteers, media outreach, and many partners around the world! And we are thrilled to expand our efforts with two new programs established in 2017 – Internet Safety for Home & Small Businesses (IHSB) and Cybersecurity Education for Universities (CEU).
Our objective is to improve Internet safety awareness, digital literacy, and malware defence capabilities for a safer digital world. To reach our objective our programs:
- EDUCATE: Leveraging Trend Experts, technology, and resources when and where possible.
- COLLABORATE: Encouraging volunteerism and building partnerships to maximise efficiency, reach, and impact, as well as to raise awareness as a team.
- Be ACCESSIBLE: Program events and resources will be free, accessible, easy to find, and relevant to our digital communities.
Team
VolunteersThe hundreds of volunteers around the globe are the very heart of our programs! Our education initiatives would not be possible without the expertise, dedication, and generosity of the hundreds of Trenders worldwide.
USA
Egypt
Germany
Philippines
Taiwan
Japan
Sponsors
Eva Chen
"...we must use our resources to go beyond just doing our job and doing it profitably...we can have a very positive impact to society and any investment we make in it can go a long way. We are not standing by and expecting others to do it because we know social responsibility is something that belongs to all of us."
Mahendra Negi
"We aspire to make the world a better place—through our technology, home building projects in the Philippines, Give & Match programs funding disaster relief, and by freely sharing our knowledge and expertise to bring us closer to a safe digital world. We're excited to expand our educational initiatives to internet safety for small businesses and universities needing help with their cybersecurity training programs!"
Mitchel Chang
"With malware and threats constantly evolving, we need do more than provide great products and support services to ensure a safe digital world. We must give back and empower our communities with the knowledge to use technology safely, and help train our future cybersecurity workforce with the skills needed for a healthy digital economy."
Lynette Owens
"A community approach to teaching kids to think critically on their own about what they are saying, doing, and sharing online is more important than ever."
Global Collaboration
Digital safety is a shared responsibility, and we all have to come together against the bad guys! That’s why we work closely with organisations of all kinds—non-profit, for-profit, and governmental— to tackle the wide-ranging issues of cybersecurity and collaborate with experts in multiple countries.
Contacts
For more information on our programs, events, workshops, and partnerships, send us an email at csr_education@trendmicro.com.