The Russian Pension Fund and Rostelecom have updated materials of the training program for pensioners “Internet ABC”. Now the program has a section devoted to online videoconferencing applications. The section presents the most popular videoconferencing programs, and describes their functions and rules of installation.
The Pension Fund and Rostelecom annually hold vast campaigns for raising computer awareness amongst Russian pensioners. The project includes a textbook, “Internet ABC”, the same-name Internet portal, and a training course. More than 200,000 pensioners have taken part in the computer-awareness course “Internet ABC” since 2014.
There are also seminars for course coaches and organizers, where methodological recommendations are given and best practices are presented. More than 2,500 “Internet ABC” coaches have been registered by now.
Please note that the textbook and the Internet portal “Internet ABC” were elaborated as part of the cooperation agreement signed between PJSC Rostelecom and the Russian Pension Fund on January 22, 2014, to raise computer awareness amongst pensioners. The purpose of this agreement is to facilitate pensioners’ access to online public services and to raise the quality of their life through computer awareness and knowledge of rules of operation on the Internet.