Cyber Center for Curing Internet Addicts Opens
Cyber Center for Curing Internet Addicts Opens
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- providing curing services in conjunction with psychiatrists - The Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) and the Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity & Promotion (KADO) opened the Center for Internet Addition Prevention and Counseling on September 22 for those Internet users who are having difficulties due to excessive use of Internet. The cyber curing center, the nation's first of its kind to have opened, provides free psychiatric counseling services online to those Internet addicts who need professional help. In order to use the cyber center, one has to log in onto the center's Internet web site at www.iapc.or.kr and answer 40 questions that can measure the degree of Internet addition. When one is found out to be in the category of Internet users with high risks and wishes to have professional counseling service, he or she can get the service by filling up an application form. KADO said any personal information thereof will be kept confidential and the applicant can receive a reply from a psychiatrist within 24 hours. In addition, KADO said that those in the high risk category who do not require the assistance from psychiatrists and those Internet users who belong to the potential risk category can receive free on and off-line counseling service by specialists at the Center for Internet Addition Prevention and Counseling operated by KADO. KADO's 'Training Program for Foreign IT Specialists' Gains Popularity Among IT Experts - Winning the trust of the National University of Laos results in an IT infrastructure project worth 20 billion won for korea - Atraining program by the Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity & Promotion (KADO) is gaining much interest from IT specialists abroad together with fruitful results that include the winning of business contracts by Korean IT companies. According to KADO, POSDATA, a systems integration company, has won an IT infrastructure project of the National University of Laos in Luang Prabang in August. In the winning of the project worth $20.3 million, to be carried through for a three-year period, KADO' training program is said to have played a major role. Last year, some government officials from Laos in the departments of foreign affairs, trade and education made a week-long visit to Korea for KADO's training program for IT specialists. Moreover, KADO said the training center has provided advisory assistance to the Bulgarian government for its adoption of 'Open System' as a means to better meet civil petitions for the public welfare. So far, KADO said that some 1,700 'IT specialists' have visited the training center so far.

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