FIGHTING CYBERCRIME. Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC) Executive Director Alexander Ramos (standing) meets the media on the sidelines of his talk at a training workshop on campus journalism in Baguio City on Thursday (March 13, 2025). He said they are encouraging educators to incorporate the topic on cybercrime and artificial intelligence in their subjects. (Screenshot from video of Emil Peredo)
BAGUIO CITY – The Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC) is encouraging teachers to incorporate cybercrime and artificial intelligence (AI) in their subjects to educate their students and prevent them from becoming victims.
“We are pushing that the educators incorporate the topics on cybercrime and artificial intelligence in their subject matter in school and not necessarily an added subject so that it will be repeatedly discussed and get into the system of our people,” CICC Executive Director Alexander Ramos said in a press conference on the sidelines of an on-campus journalism training-workshop of the Student Educators Services here Thursday.
“It can be molded, infused in the differed subject matters because it is now a major issue and a way of life,” he said.
Ramos said most of the cybercrime cases filed with the CICC are from the provinces, where people do not have full access to the right information.
Topping the cases are online illegal recruitment and phishing of accounts which are committed by misrepresentation.
“Most cases are in Mindanao,” he said, adding that most of the victims are not knowledgeable on how to detect misinformation and disinformation.
Ramos said they go around the country for information and education campaigns to boost public knowledge, especially on where to report and how to report cases.
He also urged media practitioners and content creators to use the vernacular in writing for better understanding about public information.
“We are flooded with misinformation, disinformation and there are lots of false contents,” Ramos said.
He said a number of people from geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas (GIDA) end as victims due to their lack of knowledge about digitalization.
“Our education reaches even the most far-flung communities and by teaching our students about the topic, they can share to their parents and neighbors about the information and reducing the possibility of becoming a victim of cybercrime frauds and scams,” he added. (PNA)