Virtuti Interneti

In 2010, the Coordination Center for Top Level National Domains established a special award, Virtuti Interneti (Service to the Internet), which is the only one of its kind in the Runet.

It is awarded to representatives of the worldwide web community, business, sciences and the government who have made a significant contribution to the development of the Runet and the global Internet. Candidates are shortlisted by the Programs Committee of the Russian Internet Governance Forum (RIGF), and the awards ceremony and subsequent lecture by the winner have become a tradition for the RIGF program.

Virtuti Interneti winners:

Alexey Lukatsky

Information Security Business Consultant for Positive Technologies

2024

Elena Voronina

Development Director of the Indata Network Technology Development Fund

2023

Olga Uskova

President of the Cognitive Technologies Group of Companies

2022

Bertrand de La Chapelle

Executive Director and Co-founder of the Internet & Jurisprudence Policy Network

2021

Dr. Jovan Kurbalija

Representative of the UN Secretary-General's High-level Group on Digital Cooperation, author of the book "Internet Governance"

2019

Alexey Platonov

General Director of the Internet Technical Center

2018

Benedicto Fonseca Filho

Director of the Department of Scientific and Technical Affairs of the Ministry of External Relations of Brazil

2018

Sergey Plugotarenko

Director of RAEC

2017

Dr. Wolfgang Kleinwachter

Honorary Professor of Internet Policy and Regulation, Department of Media and Information Studies, Aarhus University.

2016

Dr. Paul Vixie

One of the creators of the modern Internet, the developer and author of modern Internet protocols and systems on which the network operates today.

2015

Olaf Kolkman

Director of NLnet Labs, ex-Chairman of the Internet Architecture Council, one of the most famous Internet technical experts

2014

Stephen D. Crocker

Chairman of the Board of the ICANN Internet Corporation, inventor of the RFC Internet policy format, one of the founders of the technical community of builders of the global Internet

2013

Igor Shchegolev

The Minister of Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation, an active participant in the process of implementing the domain zone.Russia, one of the initiators of the creation of the Russian Internet Governance Forum

2012

Markus Kummer

Vice President of the World Internet Community (ISOC), Permanent Coordinator of the Global Internet Governance Forum (IGF), Co-Chairman of the Multistakeholder Advisory Committee (MAG) under the UN Secretary General

2011

Dr. Alexey Soldatov

Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Internet Development Fund, one of the founders of the Runet

2010