National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA) Pakistan has launched CHAUKAS Mobile Apps. This is second major project under Tatheer drive after launch of SURFSAFE web portal last year. These mobile apps are launched as part of TATHEER drive to eleminate extremism and Terrorism from Pakistan.
The Tat’heer drive of NACTA intends to achieve its goal by setting up a specialized National Cyber Counter-terrorism Unit (NCCU) with the following capacities:
1- Technological Cyber-security Analysis by employing Software Engineer(s) and developing state of the art software (like web spiders/crawlers, natural language processors and classifiers etc).
2- Internet Patrol Capacity which can glean through potentially extremist content and report it for blocking (through PTA) and/ or penal action under Pakistan Electronic Crimes Act, 2016 (FIA, NR3C, Cyber Crime Wing).
3- Develop and Disseminate Counter-narrative and project moderate values through academia, intelligentsia, cyber-activists, consultants and NACTA’s Committee on Counter-narrative thereby reclaiming space in cyber-space vis-a-vis radical and extremist propaganda.
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