On February 10-22, Russia will host the 19th 19-я Неделя Безопасного Рунета, a nationwide campaign dedicated to the safe, responsible, and positive use of the internet and digital technologies.
Traditionally, Safer Runet Week features a range of educational activities on various aspects of digital security, such as roundtable discussions, expert dialogues, competitions, project presentations, guided tours, podcasts, and workshops. The events are tailored for diverse target audiences, including children and adolescents, parents, teachers and education professionals, representatives of the digital industry, researchers, bloggers, journalists, and law enforcement officials. A particular emphasis is placed on ensuring the safety of children and adolescents in the digital environment.
This year, the main organizer of the Week is the Academy of the Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ. The Coordination Center traditionally takes an active part in Safer Runet Week and designs numerous educational programs in digital consumption, digital security, and digital culture.
Organizational support for the Week is provided by the Safe Internet Center (NeDopusti!). Event partners include F6, Avito, Dr. Web, the Likee social network, the Coddy programming school, the Academy of Innovative Education and Development, the Russian State Children’s Library, Moscow State University of Culture, the Moscow Institute of Educational Practices, the Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis, the House of the Deaf-Blind Charitable Foundation, the Integral Research Institute, and other organizations. The Smart Internet Foundation (the .ДЕТИ domain) serves as the Week’s media partner.
The central events of the 19th Safer Runet Week will be held in Moscow, with many also available online for regional participants: a series of roundtable discussions on digital security at the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation (February 10), the Together for a Safer Internet nationwide videoconference at the Russian State Children’s Library (February 12), the Psychological Well-being of the Digital Generation in the Face of Global Challenges scientific and practical conference at the Foreign Ministry (February 17–18), and the Online Dialogue conference at the Vladimir Institute for Education Development (February 19).
All Runet users will also be able to take part in online activities, such as the Likee educational campaign, Bloggers to Subscribers: About Fakes, Deepfakes, and Other AI Tricks; Likee’s 100,500 Questions about Online Security stream, a cybersecurity quiz from Coddy School, a family quiz on the Drugoye Delo (Different Story) VK platform, special episodes of the Digital Reality podcast, and a webinar organized by the Safe Information Environment for Children community.
The Week will also include the Chelyabinsk IT Cube Programming Championship, a tour and lecture on safe online shopping at the Avito office, the opening of the Information Security Center in Pyatigorsk, digital literacy lessons, and meetings with information security specialists at educational and cultural institutions across the country.
The Week’s program has already been published and continues to be updated. Updates can be found on the official event page at неделя-безопасного-рунета.рф, where registration information for offline events and links to live streams will also be published.
It should be noted that Safer Runet Week traditionally begins on International Safer Internet Day, which is celebrated annually on the second Tuesday of February in more than 160 countries. At the same time, the Week is an independent campaign with its own Russian format, designed specifically for the domestic digital landscape.
