Internet addiction and ludomania: how to protect Kazakhstani children?

A social project aimed at helping children with Internet addiction and ludomania was implemented with the support of the Ministry of Information and Social Development.

The social project was aimed at preventing three important problems: Internet addiction, gambling, cyberbullying among children and youth. The team of experts included professional psychologists, lawyers, and sociologists. All of them were busy researching the topics of the social project.

In addition, a special Telegram channel was launched.

"We have created a community of active guys who are not indifferent to this topic. We have trained them, and they are now using social networks to conduct parallel monitoring," says Dinara Sadvakasova, head of the non-governmental organization "Zhas Ulan".

Another area of the project was the prevention of ludomania, a type of addiction characterized by a pathological attraction to gambling and computer games.

As part of the project, the public association held a short film competition.

In general, over the period of the project, more than one thousand young people from 17 regions have been trained in the prevention of Internet addiction, cyberbullying and gambling addiction.

Telegram groups for the prevention of gambling and cyberbullying have been opened in all regions of Kazakhstan, 74 sites recommended for blocking in the personal accounts of the user "parental control" have been identified.