UOB Cyberlite

Navigating online safety for students nationwide

What's it about?

In 2025, we brought the UOB My Digital Space Cyber Safety Workshops to life in Malaysia. These workshops equipped over 1,000 primary and secondary school students with essential online safety skills.

The Cause

  • Online Safety

Year

2025

Our Services

  • Attitudes & Behavioural Change Programmes and Fellowships

What’s the Social Issue?

Unsafe online behaviour practices and uncritical use of generative AI have become more widespread as digital literacy rates amongst students plummets. This has caused a pressing need to raise awareness of online safety practices, particularly for young people.

The Challenge

Young people are spending a massive amount of time on online platforms for education, connection, and entertainment. However, despite being digital natives, many lack awareness in digital critical thinking, digital etiquette, and healthy skepticism needed to navigate online spaces safely and responsibly. With the rising usage of generative AI amongst the youth, frameworks and guardrails must be encouraged to help them understand how to use AI tools effectively.

What We Did

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We conducted interactive workshops across national schools and community learning centres in the Klang Valley.

Primary school students learned about user account safety, their digital footprint, and cyberbullying;

Secondary school students gained insight on fact-checking AI, the realism of AI content and deepfakes, as well as AI app safety.

What are the immediate outcomes after the programme?

80% of all students

felt that they had learned something new about cyber safety and generative AI, with most of them highlighting newfound knowledge of password safety, online etiquette, and fact-checking AI.

Many also particularly enjoyed learning how to respond to online bullying and the impact of their digital footprint.

Testimonial from a Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Sultan Abdul Samad student

“I learned that AI can be dangerous and at the same time very helpful. My favourite part of the programme was probably the Truth Tracker. It was fun and I actually learned [something new].”

The Impact

>1,100

Students reached

Over 1,100 students benefitted from the programme.

This included significant outreach to underserved groups, reaching approximately 500 refugee and Orang Asli students, many of whom have limited access to structured digital literacy education.

>86%

Boost in confidence

More than 86% of all workshop attendees felt more confident in their knowledge of safe and responsible online behaviour.

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