WELCOME TO THE C3™ INSTITUTE

The Cyberethics, Cybersafety and Cybersecurity (C3™) Institute provides outreach services to the educational community about the ethical, legal, safety, and security implications of technology use.

Our goals are to:

1. raise community awareness of ethical, legal, safety, and security implications of technology use [more]
2. provide guidance to parents, educators, students and policy makers regarding effective strategies, techniques and protocols to assist themselves and young people in gaining the knowledge and skills about ethical, legal, safety, and security implications of technology use [more]
3. provide professional development opportunities for educators, [more] and
4. help increase the workforce pipeline of information security, information assurance and information technology professionals in the MD/VA/DC area and nationwide [more]

What's New

Cyberbullying in the News

• Local delegate's legislation targets 'cyberbullying' [PDF]
• Md. Lawmakers Aim to Fight Cyberbullies Fox 5- Dr. Pruitt-Mentle at 1:59 [Video]
• A lawmaker out of Anne Arundel County is targeting online bullying. Fox 45
• A mother made an emotional plea to lawmakers in Annapolis Thursday, asking them to protect children and teenagers from cyber bullying. ABC 7 [Video]
  • Cyber-Bullying Protection Measure Proposed in Maryland [PDF]
• Time to rein in harassment on the Internet [PDF]

Young Scholars/STEM in the News

• Youths get jump on cybersecurity [PDF]
• World of digital technology opens for high school students [PDF]

Technology News

• MSDE Measures Tech Literacy Among Students, Educators [DOC ... PDF]
• Article in the Chronicle for Higher Education "Community Colleges Mobilize to Train Cybersecurity Workers." [PDF]