On June 1, 2013, on the Children's Day, the 5th Russian youth website contest, Positive Content (www.positivecontent.ru), began accepting applications for review. The deadline for submitting applications is October 1st.
A broad range of events, including seminars, student lectures and lessons, drawing and essay contests for the event have attracted over 10,000 younger Russians in 27 of the country's regions.
The contest is hosted by RU-CENTER, Foundation for Assistance for Internet Technologies and Infrastructure Development (FAITID) and the Coordination Center for TLD RU/РФ, partnered with the Russian Association for Electronic Communications (RAEC). The event is aimed at selecting the best-of-breed youth websites that are interesting, most useful to younger audiences and safe – both in terms of content and technology.
The websites will be competing in 6 major and several additional nominations, with the contest committee consisting of industry and content experts, as well as of younger Internet community members. The Positive Content winners are to be announced in November 2013.
Today, Positive Content is not only a competition well-known in both expert and user community; it has grown into an ambitious movement of positive, young and creative Internet community members. The contest is a place for website owners to promote their positive content, and every year it contributes to adding more and more websites to the "virtual library" for younger Internet audiences. To facilitate safe browsing for these, the contest committee supports a whitelist of the websites safe for child browsing and monitors these daily at http://wl.positivecontent.ru/.
These websites are safe and fun to browse for any young Internet user, and can be used in the learning process as well as at home. The event news are available at the contest website, as well as on Facebook and VKontakte.
