The Institute of Contemporary Development organized a roundtable at which the victory ceremony of the winners of the ‘Computer Literacy - Year of the Family’ Competition took place.
 
The event participants included: Nadezhda Selyakova, President of the New Perspectives Foundation; Inessa Grikurova, Strategic Projects of Microsoft Russia; Olga Reiman, President of the ‘Who if Not Me?’ charity foundation, and the school headmasters and pupils of the schools that won the competition.
 
The ‘Computer Literacy - Year of the Family’ project is aimed at teaching basic computer skills to the maximum number of adults. Adults are trained by schoolchildren on the basis of their learned-at-school computer skills.
 
Nadezhda Selyakova, President of the New Perspectives Foundation, says that this year ‘Computer Literacy’ competition is celebrating its 10th anniversary. During these 10 years about 60,000 people nationwide aged between 18 and 84, learnt basic computer skills. This year representatives from 73 regions of Russia participated in the competition. More than 7,000 children representing 368 schools taught about 18,000 adults basic computer skills.
 
The winners of the ‘Computer Literacy’ competition received money prizes of the ruble equivalent of $10,000 each. Under the terms of the competition, the prizes are to be used for modernization of the technical infrastructure of their schools.
 
The All-Russia “Computer Literacy - Year of the Family” competition is organized jointly with the Institute of Contemporary Development and Microsoft as part of the global initiative “Microsoft Unlimited Potential”.