On March 9, the Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO) held a members meeting as part of the 55th ICANN meeting, featuring a presentation by Irina Daneliya, Deputy Director of the Coordination Center for TLD RU. In her remarks, she talked about social and educational initiatives within .RU and .РФ domains.
Specifically, Ms Daneliya presented projects implemented by the Coordination Center for TLD RU, such as the national contest on IT and intellectual property law carried out in cooperation with Moscow State Law University, the Positive Content national contest for the best online project for young and teenage children; the Dot-Journalism award for journalists covering domains and the domain industry, as well as the Learn the Internet – Manage It! educational game.
Ms Daneliya pointed out that Learn the Internet – Manage It! competition helps children and teenagers better learn about the structure of the global web and its principles in a captivating game setting, as well as teaches them responsible and safe online behavior. She said that Learn the Internet – Manage It! project enjoys great success and is very popular, adding that the number of individual participants surged ten times over the three years of the project’s existence.
“One of the main missions of the Russian national domain administrator is to support educational and social projects aimed at promoting and developing the Internet in Russia. The Coordination Center has always paid a lot of attention to this issue and shared its results with other registries and registrars. For example, since our foreign colleagues expressed interest in the Learn the Internet – Manage It! game, we are thinking about transforming it into an international competition,” Coordination Center Director Andrey Vorobyev said.
