On February 27, Vladimir hosted the eighth interregional conference Online Dialogue: Topical Security Issues in the Global Information Environment, organized by the Vladimir Regional Library for Children and Youth in collaboration with the Vladimir Institute of Education.
The conference participants included schoolchildren, young people, specialists working with children and youth, education professionals and information security experts. The conference focused on modern methods and tools of information protection, responsible and safe use of digital technologies, and cyberspace regulation. The speakers − psychologists, sociologists, teachers, authoritative experts and leading researchers in the areas of information security, child safety in the information and communication environment, modern ICT and digital technologies – talked about how modern information and communication technologies influence the security, lifestyle, upbringing and personal growth of the younger generation.
Yevgeny Pankov, Special Projects Manager at the Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ, also spoke at the opening of the conference. He noted the importance of improving digital skills and media literacy in cybersecurity among teachers and school counselors. “It is teachers who, more than anyone else today, can influence development of a positive digital culture among adolescents and youth and promote information security in the learning environment,” said Pankov. He also spoke about the Coordination Center’s role in the process of building the information culture of Russian internet users, including children and teenagers.
The expert shared the results of the work to combat malicious resources using the CCTLD-developed service for collaboration between competent organizations and registrars. In particular, in 2019, competent organizations sent registrars 7,456 reports related to violating domains. Phishing was the biggest problem (5,681 reports).
At the end of his speech, Yevgeny Pankov handed framed commemorative stamps issued for the 25th anniversary of the .RU domain to Tatyana Sdobnikova, director of the Vladimir Regional Library for Children and Youth, and Viktoria Polyakova, Vice President for Information Technology of the Vladimir Institute of Education.
Pankov spoke during the session “Current tasks of information security in the context of education digitalization,” dedicated to discussing the means and methods used by libraries when working with children and youth in the era of omnipresent internet. His speech focused on the Coordination Center’s projects to increase the media literacy of modern internet users. Pankov spoke about the Study the Internet, Govern It online game, the DOT Journalism and Positive Content contests as well as educational publications by the Coordination Center.
