CYBERBULLYING INFORMATION PORTAL (C.B.I.P)

Number of Cyberbullying cases reported in 2012 and 2013 shows significantly increase. 55.6 percent increased explained that this situation is at an alarming stage. Therefore, Cyberbullying Information Portal is develop aimed to study the awareness of teenager and parents and their perceptions on cyber bullying, thus an interactive web portal is developed to cultivate the awareness on cyber bullying based on the finding in previous objective and to study the effectiveness of the website in conveying the information on Cyberbullying. Methodology used in this research is web portal development methodology. This project is divided into 4 phases which are analysis, design, generation and implementation. From the study, it was found that 60 percent of the respondent could not differentiate between cyber bullying, cyber bullied and cyber victim. In addition, it was found that 55 percent of the respondent agreed that website is the best way to educate others on cyber bullying. Thus, it significantly shows the needs of development of web portal to conveying information on Cyberbullying. Once the web portal is available on the network, another study is carried out. The aim of study is to measure the effectiveness of the web portal in conveying information on Cyberbullying. It was found that the portal effectively conveying information on Cyberbullying where the number of respondents able to answer Cyberbullying related questions increased. 77.8 percent of respondents know about Cyberbullying. Moreover, 66.7 percent of respondent agreed that web portal is the effective medium in disseminating information related to Cyberbullying. Even though the web portal received constructive feedback from the users, web portal content should be constantly updated to ensure the relevancy of the content to present date. Nevertheless, more multimedia items and attractive item should be included to attract more visitor