Education and building an interest in science begins at an early age. However, an integral part of their future success is the ability to present their project and also a way to communicate it to the public successfully. In SK-NIC we know this really well and that is why we supported the AMAVET organization from…
Online predation and abusing of young people is, unfortunately, even more intense during the isolation caused by the COVID-19 virus. Many of them still suffer from feelings of insecurity and uselessness, or thoughts about suicide. That’s why we have launched a series of podcasts in collaboration with Startitup and the first of them is aimed…
Every year, the Association for Youth, Science and Technology (AMAVET) organizes a two-day event for primary and secondary school students with a passion for science and technology. However, the implementation of this 15th year was endangered by the COVID-19 infection. Therefore, the organizers decided to realize the event in a different way than ever before –…
The Internet brings many benefits, improvements and tools for all of us. However, it brings new challenges not only for adults but also for children who have been part of the virtual world practically from their birth. On the other side of the virtual world, the traps of modern cybercrime are lurking. Just like in…
For the eighth time, the Slovak public had the opportunity to participate in a unique test to examine the digital knowledge and skills of ordinary users. IT Fitness Test 2019, supported by us this year as well, involved more than 25,000 respondents not only among students and teachers, but also the general public. More than…
The topic of cybersecurity is increasingly discussed nowadays. 51.8% of all Internet operations are performed by bots (simple autonomous programs), which e.g. allow searching in web browsers. In many cases, they are abused for example to break the protection of personal profiles on social networks or to attack websites. Up to 90,000 websites are hacked…
Responsibility in virtual space is important for our company and that ´s why we support cybersecurity and education projects. We expect the launch of SK-NIC fund and calls for the projects in the autumn. We realize that education or security are never-ending activities in a dynamic virtual world. In the relevant SK-NIC fund there are…
As raising awareness of the cyberspace protection and security is one of our priority, we have supported the greatest IT knowledge testing in Slovak Republic once again – IT Fitness Test 2019 (Note: Slovak only). More than 25,000 solvers have been involved in testing. According to ongoing results, the average success rate is 51%. Last…
The level of knowledge about security risks is relatively low in the Slovak Republic. According to the outcome of the testing across Slovakia – IT Fitness Test in 2018 (Note: Slovak only), the success of students and teachers tested in category „Security and Computer Systems“ was only 20% (actually, this annual already started). This fact…
SK-NIC, a.s., the registration authority for the top level domain name .sk has again become one of the main partners of the largest IT testing in Slovakia – IT Fitness test 2019, which 8th year is organised by IT Association of Slovakia in partnership with the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Slovak…
