Tech Valley has continued its Digital Pasban Town Halls in Lahore, holding sessions at Beaconhouse Walton Campus and Beaconhouse Newlands that brought together parents, teachers, and section heads for conversations on children’s digital safety and well-being. The Town Halls introduced parents to the Digital Pasban Toolkit, which is built around four pillars. Family Link is aimed at helping parents manage screen time and app access on their children’s devices.
YouTube Shorts is the pillar that promotes age-appropriate and safer viewing experiences, while Be Internet Awesome focuses on building the essential digital citizenship skills that children need as they spend more time online. The fourth pillar, SafeSearch, supports safer and more responsible online exploration so that children can look things up without running into content that is unsuitable for them. Together, these pillars give families a practical set of tools that cover how long children spend on their devices, what they watch, how they behave online, and what they find when they search. Digital Pasban was launched earlier as a digital safety programme by Tech Valley in partnership with Google, and the Lahore sessions are part of its effort to take the toolkit directly into schools and communities where parents and educators can engage with it in person.
The sessions focused on practical ways parents and educators can support safer and more responsible digital learning environments for children. Rather than treating online safety as a subject reserved for technical experts, the format placed parents, teachers, and school leadership in the same room and gave them space to work through the issue together. According to Tech Valley, the open discussions, thoughtful questions, and experiences shared by parents made the Town Halls especially meaningful, and the level of engagement highlighted how much families value being given the right tools and knowledge to support children in today’s digital world. Including section heads alongside teachers and parents also adds weight to the exercise, since school staff are often the first point of contact when children face problems linked to screen time, online content, or digital behaviour, and consistent guidance between home and school can make safe habits easier to follow.
Digital Pasban is creating opportunities for parents and educators to build the awareness and confidence needed to help children navigate the digital world safely and responsibly. Institutions that want to bring the next Town Hall to their campus can get in touch with Tech Valley through its website, by email at hello@techvalley.pk, or by calling 0333 5306444. For schools weighing whether to host a session, the Lahore Town Halls offer a clear picture of what to expect: practical guidance on everyday tools, open discussion between families and educators, and a toolkit that parents can start using at home as soon as the session ends.
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