On June 19, the Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ held another Safe Internet Lesson as part of Cybervacation, an urban summer camp for schoolchildren organized at Cyberdom. Children aged 9-12 interested in a career in IT were among the participants in this summer’s last session. The kids shared their ambitions to become programmers, white hackers, 3D designers and other professionals using digital tools in their work.
As before, the class opened with a lecture by Yekaterina Biryukova (Dr.Web) on safe internet surfing, online communication, netiquette and cyberhygiene. The speaker encouraged kids to share their experience with digital technology. Some of the most tech-savvy users asked questions about Telegram voice call blocking, the license agreement with Russia’s Max messenger, the legal issues around VPN usage, and consequences of searching for prohibited information online.
After the lecture, the kids played Explore the Internet. Coordination Center Social Projects Manager Viktoria Bunchuk quizzed the kids about security online. Those who answered the most difficult questions and scored 300 to 400 points received useful gifts from the Coordination Center’s projects Domain Patrol and Explore the Internet and Govern It. One trophy was a comic book titled The Imba Mistake: How I Almost Leaked Everything.
Every lesson participant also received a copy of A Trap for a Cyberslacker, a detective story published by Dr.Web.
This Cybervacation lesson rounded up the Coordination Center’s summer awareness campaign to improve digital literacy among schoolchildren of different ages. For three months, the Coordination Center and its cybersecurity partners taught classes in urban and school summer camps across Moscow, the Altai Territory, the Moscow, Leningrad, Volgograd and Nizhny Novgorod regions. The company will continue its outreach efforts in the upcoming school year.
