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The development of the digital economy of the BRICS and SCO countries, as well as the prospects for international cooperation in information security, were discussed by the participants of the IT Forum during the main plenary session “Digital Multipolar World. Equal Opportunities and New Challenges”. The current agenda of the meeting also included issues of using artificial intelligence and ensuring the technological sovereignty of states.
Speaking at the meeting, Andrey Belyaninov, Secretary General of the Eurasian Peoples' Assembly, noted the high level of IT specialists in Russia and their demand all over the world.
“There is no need to prove that IT communities in Russia and other countries are at the highest level, and the main thing is to set a specific task for IT specialists, and they will be able to bring it to the finished product,” said Andrey Belyaninov.
During his speech, the Assembly Secretary General addressed the representatives of the IT sector with a request to think about solving the issues of dispatching maritime traffic and convergence of the technical regulations of the countries participating in the project - the North-South transport corridor:
“At the Islamic Forum in Kazan, we took the initiative to create the International Association of Seaports of the countries participating in the North-South project. I appeal to representatives of the IT community. Two functions could be entrusted to this kind of association - the dispatching of maritime traffic, and the second - the convergence of technical regulations of the countries participating in the project. We need to ensure the most comfortable passage of goods along the corridor. It's definitely an international challenge."
He also indicated to the community that the topic of developing a universal payment system for the implementation and financing of the North-South project is on the agenda:
“... An international task is to finance the North-South project. You should think about how to use national currencies in calculations. The volume of investment is estimated in billions of dollars. These are absolutely working sums for the implementation of such a large-scale global project. And here is everything that concerns payment systems in which colleagues have succeeded, I urge you to seriously think about it.”
The discussion focused on the role of digital technologies in the preservation of cultural heritage. Andrey Belyaninov proposed to make an inventory of world human culture using digital technologies and give the regions the opportunity to more widely publicize their achievements, suggested thinking about technologies that would make it possible to talk more about Russian culture in the "digital world". At the same time, special attention was paid not only to objects of material cultural heritage, but also to spiritual ones.
Concluding his speech at the plenary session of the IT Forum in Yugra, Andrey Belyaninov, as General Secretary of the General Confederation of Trade Unions, proposed the creation of a Eurasian Trade Union of IT Specialists.
“There are many talented people in your sphere. Many specialists achieve material wealth much earlier than in other industries, but not everyone breaks into Bill Gates and becomes Elon Musk. We need to unite, communicate, socialize and think now about prospects, our families, children. Since the period of prosperity and success of a person in IT technologies can be short,” he said.
The plenary session was attended by Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Ural Federal District Vladimir Yakushev, Governor of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Yugra Natalya Komarova, Secretary General of the Eurasian Peoples' Assembly Andrey Belyaninov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea to the Russian Federation Mr. Luciano Nkogo Ndong Ayekaba, Minister of Telecommunications, Information Technologies and Public Relations of the Republic of Angola Mario Augusto Da Silva Oliveira, Deputy Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation Dmitry Oguryaev, Advisor to the Minister of Information and Telecommunications Technologies of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Head of the Special Economic Zone and Payam International Airport Akbar Ganbarpour, Advisor to the Minister of Digitalization of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Katimba Venceslas Kukwabantu, Executive Secretary of the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO, Deputy Director of the Department for Multilateral Humanitarian Cooperation and Cultural Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Tatyana Dovgalenko. The moderator was Dmitry Shchugorev, a Russian journalist, presenter and correspondent of the Rossiya 24 TV channel.
As Yugra Governor Natalya Komarova noted, the IT Forum has long gone beyond the BRICS and SCO countries, this year the event brought together participants from 45 states and 75 constituent entities of Russia.
