{"id":1041443,"date":"2026-10-07T09:06:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T03:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041443"},"modified":"2026-10-07T09:44:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T04:14:50","slug":"students-retired-hands-kerala-enlists-grassroots-army-to-fight-cybercrime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/07\/students-retired-hands-kerala-enlists-grassroots-army-to-fight-cybercrime\/","title":{"rendered":"Students, retired hands&#8230; Kerala enlists grassroots army to fight cybercrime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Faced with a sharp surge in digital offences \u2014 with over 41,000 cybercrime complaints annually, thousands of registered fraud cases, and financial losses exceeding Rs 760 crore \u2014 the state government is assembling a grassroots army to spread online safety awareness. <\/p>\n<p>The SafeTech, or Cyber Jagratha Campaign, organised by the Kerala State IT Mission (KSITM), is being designed as an evolving, permanent safety framework to tackle rapidly changing online threats. Under the initiative, a grassroots army comprising college students, retired professionals, and local community members, who will serve as \u2018SafeTech Ambassadors\u2019, will be deployed to directly train families, students, and senior citizens in their own neighbourhoods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Faced with a sharp surge in digital offences \u2014 with over 41,000 cybercrime complaints annually, thousands of registered fraud cases, and financial losses exceeding Rs 760 crore \u2014 the state government is assembling a grassroots army to spread online safety awareness. The SafeTech, or Cyber Jagratha Campaign, organised by the Kerala State IT Mission (KSITM), is being designed as an evolving, permanent safety framework to tackle rapidly changing online threats. Under the initiative, a grassroots army comprising college students, retired professionals, and local community members, who will serve as \u2018SafeTech Ambassadors\u2019, will be deployed to directly train families, students, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041470,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041443\/revisions\/1041470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}