Yagshygeldi Kakayev International University of Oil and Gas hosted the 1st International Open Internet Olympiad in Informatics, which, together with Turkmen students, was attended by over 450 fans of modern technologies from more than 50 higher educational institutions of Russia, Belarus, China, Azerbaijan, the Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Armenia, Romania and Germany. Among the foreign participating universities are such reputable and world-famous higher educational establishments as the Petronas University of Technology (Malaysia), the Ploiesti University of Petroleum and Gas (Romania), the China Petroleum University (Beijing) and other higher educational establishments that occupy the top lines in the world rankings in the field of education.

The Olympiad was organised on the Moodle platform, specially created for such intellectual competitions by the leading IT-specialists and teachers of Yagshygeldi Kakayev International University of Oil and Gas, which performs the tasks of registering participants, creating the necessary logins and passwords for them and uploading tasks of varying complexity, developed taking into account the best international practice. They were developed on such sections of information technology as system and object-oriented programming, binary coding, measurement of information and computer graphics. When developing competitive tasks prepared in Turkmen, Russian and English, international experience was taken into account.