The Russian Contest “Thank You, Internet 2019” organized by the Russian Pension Fund and the Rostelecom company begins today. People older than 50, who have been trained to use a computer and the Internet, including at specialized computer courses, can become contestants. Applications and essays in various nominations, including “Gosuslugi.ru Portal: My Experience,” “My Internet Achievements,” “Internet Entrepreneur; Internet Employer,” and “My Social Internet Initiatives,” shall be submitted on the Internet ABC website.
Essays can be submitted between April 17 and October 14, 2019. Winners will be named by a commission comprising representatives of Rostelecom, the Russian Pension Fund, the Social Policy Ministry of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, the Russian Telecom Association, and the Regional Public Center for Internet Technologies. Winners will be named in November 2019.
The first “Thank You, Internet” Contest took place in 2015 and had over 2,000 participants. The number of participants has been growing since then. Some 3,400 senior citizens from 74 regions of Russia took part in the contest in 2018.
The Russian Contest “Thank You, Internet,” is part of the Internet ABC project. All essays and the contest results are published on the same-name website. The Internet ABC textbook and Internet portal were created under the agreement concluded by the Russian Pension Fund and the Rostelecom company in 2019 to cooperate in raising computer awareness of pensioners. The goal of the project is to facilitate pensioners’ access to online public services and to improve quality of life with computer and Internet skills.