On May 13, Moscow hotel “Renaissance Monarch Center” hosted an international conference and exhibition on accessibility of mobile and information-communication technologies for aged and disabled people. The goal of the M-Enabling Russia 2015 – was to gather on one business stage representatives of competent international organizations, public authorities in ICT sphere, solutions and equipment providers in order to discuss urgent issues and evaluate perspectives of this market.     All participants had a chance to exchange current practices. Discussion stage M-Enabling Russia 2015 offered an overview of actual solutions in providing universal access to ICT, which would exclude discrimination of any person on the basis of his limited abilities.

Moscow State Technical University n.a. N.E. Bauman acted as co-organizer of the project M-Enabling Russia 2015. The Conference was organized under the instruction and with direct participation of the Global Initiative for Inclusive ICTs (G3ict) represented by Mr. Axel Leblois and was conducted  under the aegis of the UN global Alliance for ICT and Development, supported by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of RF, the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of RF,the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of RF,  the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI), UN Information Center in Moscow, All-Russia Society of the Disabled,  All-Russia Society of the Deaf, All-Russia Society of the Blind, the Union of pensioners of Russia, the Center for Social Innovations Development «Technologies of Capabilities», Russian Information Society Development Agency, Russian Association for Electronic Communications, Russian Peace Foundation.

The conference was opened by welcoming speeches delivered by: Axel Leblois, Founder and Executive director of the Global Initiative for Inclusive ICTs (G3ict), Alexander Stanevskiy, Director of the Center for Complex Rehabilitation of the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing of the MSTU n.a. N.A. Bauman, Javed Abidi, Chairman of the Handicap International, Dmitry Khalin, Technical director of Microsoft in Russia, Diana Gurtskaya, Member of the Public Chamber of Russia, Founder of the Foundation for assistance to blind and vision-impaired children "At the call of heart".

Axel Leblois, Founder and Executive director of the Global Initiative for Inclusive ICTs (G3ict), in his speech emphasized the importance of this meeting in Moscow, necessity of paying attention to needs of the disabled amounted to 1 billion in the world, thanked representatives of the UN Information Center in Moscow, "Beeline" company and MSTU n.a. Bauman for organization of the conference.

Alexander Stanevskiy, Director of the Center for Complex Rehabilitation of the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing of the MSTU n.a. N.A. Bauman, while talking about necessity of paying attention to the needs of the disabled mentioned that there are 200 million disabled people in China alone and emphasized the role of universities on the process of development and implementation of innovations for handicapped people.

Javed Abidi, Chairman of the Handicap International (India), told that the World Organization for Disabled was founded in 1981, when the UN announced the Year of the Disabled. The organization now comprises 150 countries including CIS.  Mr. Abidi noted positive changes in the attitude of the public and the state in Russia, however according to his opinion more can be done.

Then participants of the conference attended a panel discussion on: «Securing of digital equality by efforts of the state, business and society".  The discussion was moderated by Ivan Biryukov, director general of the Center for Social Innovations Development «Technologies of Capabilities».

Karen Peltz Strauss, Deputy Chief of Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau of the US Federal Commission Communications (FCC), made a detailed presentation on «Experience of the US Government in organization of interdepartmental interaction”.