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 The event took place on
1st February, 2017 at Moscow Representative Office of the World Bank.
Developing the Digital
Economy in Russia is an initiative of the World Bank and Russian partner
organizations such as governmental authorities, private sector, civil society
and scientific and education community, aimed at establishing multi-stakeholder
collaboration to foster Digital Economy development in the country. The main
task is to jointly develop recommendations for stakeholders to establish the
fundamental bases of development of the digital economy in Russia.
To do this, the World
Bank staff, leading international experts and representatives of key partners
from the Russian side, formed the Working Group on the Digital Economy development
in Russia. As a result of a series of local seminars, international
videoconferencing and online consultations, the Working Group will prepare
basic guidelines and principles that will promote the achievement of the
positive effects of digital transformation, such as sustainable economic
growth, the creation of new high-tech jobs, improve the quality of services
provided, as well as positioning Russia as the leader of an emerging Digital Economy.
These recommendations
will form the basis of the analytical report "Digital Economy: Prospects
for Russia", the work on which will be finished by June, 2017 and will be
based on the discussions and experiences of the Digital Economy in the UK, the
USA, South Korea, Singapore, Australia, Estonia, Germany, China, India, Israel
and other countries.
The first international seminar with the participation of the Minister of Telecom and Mass
Communications Nikolay Nikiforov and the Minister of the Eurasian Economic
Commission on the Internal Markets, Informatization and ICT Karine Minasyan was
held on 20th December, 2016.
The purpose of the second International Seminar is to identify and
prioritize key foundations of the Digital Economy, jointly with international
experts from the High-Level Experts, Leaders, and Practitioners (H.E.L.P.)
Group and their Russian counterparts, and the degree of their influence on the
overall development of the digital economy in different countries.
The following
issues were discussed:
- Why have countries been recently focusing on
developing the Digital Economy? What is the #1 objective of the Digital Economy
programs?
- What are the key foundations (digital and analog
enablers) for the Digital Economy? How can they be prioritized and sequenced?
- What are the necessary steps that should be taken by
the government and business for the development of skills vital for the Digital
Economy?
- What is the role of cyber security in the digital
- What are the most disruptive technologies that will
fuel the Digital Economy of the future?
- What are the new policies/regulations that the
countries will need to put in place?
- What are the institutions and the governance
structures that the governments need to put in place to take full advantage of
the Digital Economy?
- Which elements of Digital Economy foundations could be
best implemented through Public-Private Partnerships (PPP)?
 Welcoming speeches at the event were delivered by Oleg Petrov, Senior Program Officer,
ICT Global Practice, World Bank; Andras
Horvai, Director and Permanent Representative of the World Bank in the
Russian Federation; Jane Treadwell,
former Deputy CEO, CentreLink and CIO, Government of Victoria.
Vladimir Averbah, Director of e-Government Development Department of the Ministry of Telecom
and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation also addressed the
participants.
A brief overview of the Russian experts’ opinions on the development of the
Digital Economy in Russia was made by Dr. Yuri Hohlov, Chairman of the Board of
Directors of the Institute of the Information Society.
Further, the international
experts took part in the discussion of the digital economy problems:
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World Bank – Carlo
Maria Rossotto, Digital Economy Lead (moderator)
- India - Ram
Sewak Sharma, Chairman, Telecommunications Regulatory Authority
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Gartner – Andrea
DiMaio, Managing Vice President
- Australia - Jane
Treadwell, former Deputy CEO, CentreLink and CIO, Government of Victoria
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UK – Liam Maxwell, National Technology Adviser
- Republic of Korea – Yonglok Yoon, President, NIPA.
After that there was an open discussion with the participation of Russian
experts moderated by Dr. Yuri Hohlov.
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