A socially oriented non-financial development institution and a major organizer of nationwide and international conventions; exhibitions; and business, public, youth, sporting, and cultural events.

The Roscongress Foundation is a socially oriented non-financial development institution and a major organizer of nationwide and international conventions; exhibitions; and business, public, youth, sporting, and cultural events. It was established in pursuance of a decision by the President of the Russian Federation.

The Foundation was established in 2007 with the aim of facilitating the development of Russia’s economic potential, promoting its national interests, and strengthening the country’s image. One of the roles of the Foundation is to comprehensively evaluate, analyse, and cover issues on the Russian and global economic agendas. It also offers administrative services, provides promotional support for business projects and attracting investment, helps foster social entrepreneurship and charitable initiatives.

Each year, the Foundation’s events draw participants from 208 countries and territories, with more than 15,000 media representatives working on-site at Roscongress’ various venues. The Foundation benefits from analytical and professional expertise provided by 5,000 people working in Russia and abroad.

The Foundation works alongside various UN departments and other international organizations, and is building multi-format cooperation with 180 economic partners, including industrialists’ and entrepreneurs’ unions, financial, trade, and business associations from 81 countries worldwide, and 186 Russian public organizations, federal and legislative agencies, and federal subjects.

The Roscongress Foundation has Telegram channels in Russian t.me/Roscongress, English – t.me/RoscongressDirect, Spanish – t.me/RoscongressEsp and Arabic t.me/RosCongressArabic. Official website and Information and Analytical System of the Roscongress Foundation:roscongress.org.

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Vadim Glushchenko

Vadim Glushchenko

Director, Center for Global IT-Cooperation
Quotes
08.09.2022
EEF 2022
The Eastward Turn: Technological and Strategic Cooperation with Asian Countries in the New Economic Era
The development of the IT sector in Russia has led the way, growing by 35% between 2015 and 2021. The figure is impressive. Now, as we all know, our country is under unprecedented pressure from sanctions from unfriendly countries. The foreign policy environment is not the most favourable either. All these sanctions, as we understand, are aimed, among other things, at depriving our country of technological sovereignty. This is why the Russian expert community and our industry are faced with the task of searching for new strategic partners and creating new alliances, primarily with Asian countries, with proven partners
07.09.2022
EEF 2022
Strategic Technology Alliances: A New Imperative for Business Cooperation in Eurasia
As always, Russia has a window of opportunities and new horizons, when we can be more than participants in strategic projects. We can launch and lead them. Moreover, we can avoid old mistakes and old patterns and build those alliances on the principle of mutual respect with our partners, independence, and technological sovereignty. It means we need to understand that no political shift or political event in the world can undermine our technological sovereignty or a partner country. Because a technological university is the foundation of economic prosperity and growth in any country
16.06.2022
SPIEF 2022
The Young as a Driver of Socio-Economic Development in an Era of Change
IT specialists are as essential to the state as oxygen. That is why the government is focusing on them so much, and why the whole country is essentially placing its hopes on them. <...> IT specialists not only need to feel as though their skills are required domestically, but also that they are involved in the processes which are happening worldwide. This could be in the field of internet governance, for example, or the development of IT technologies at a global level
16.06.2022
SPIEF 2022
The Young as a Driver of Socio-Economic Development in an Era of Change
In the weeks following the beginning of the special operation, many experts stated that a disaster awaited us, that IT specialists would leave Russia en masse. They cited figures ranging from 8,000 to 70,000, looking at those who had already left, and those who were planning to do so. However, the situation has turned out very differently. Many of those who left on their emotions and in a panic are already returning. <...> The outflow is in the range of 1–1.5% of specialists. Around 80% of those who left have already come back
03.09.2021
EEF 2021
Digital Monopolies and Cyber Threats: The Clash between Platforms and National Governments
All over the world, there is a demand for the “landing” of foreign IT platforms, since in most cases they do not have a local office in a particular country where they operate and make a profit. And the government cannot force them to comply with the national legislation. This kind of work on “landing” of tech platforms and forcing them to open official representations and offices is in progress in many countries, in Europe. Turkey’s experience is indicative: last year they passed a law which allowed for the leading foreign tech platforms, such as Facebook and Amazon, to be fined millions of dollars. This experience was fully taken into account in our country when we developed and adopted the law on the “landing” of foreign IT platforms
03.09.2021
EEF 2021
Digital Monopolies and Cyber Threats: The Clash between Platforms and National Governments
The platforms take on the right to make politically motivated decisions about the content they do not like. In doing so, they are guided not by national legislation or international rules, but by an opaque corporate policy. We saw that last year, when YouTube blocked Tsargrad, and earlier this year, a number of our media outlets, unfortunately, had problems of the same sort
03.09.2021
EEF 2021
Digital Monopolies and Cyber Threats: The Clash between Platforms and National Governments
The main trend in the world is reinforcement of the regulation of global digital platforms at the national level. Governments are engaged in combating their monopoly positions, countering opaque content moderation, improving the taxation system, and protecting users’ personal data. In 2021, many countries took measures in the sphere of antitrust policy: the European Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States
03.09.2021
EEF 2021
Digital Monopolies and Cyber Threats: The Clash between Platforms and National Governments
Global digital platforms have become an integral part of our life; they are everywhere where there is an Internet connection: search engines, social networks, cloud services. Over the past few years, before our very eyes, those companies have grown into transnational monopolies
05.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
Expanding the Possibilities of Digital Development for the Youth
In many countries and integrated associations, there are self-regulatory alliances where businesses come together and are committed to protecting children online. This experience exists in the European Union as well. […] A few weeks ago, at a Russian Internet forum, an initiative was announced by the business community to create an alliance to protect children online. I think this initiative is good and very effective
05.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
Expanding the Possibilities of Digital Development for the Youth
There is a somewhat alarming trend in that, unfortunately, the level of digital literacy among young people is slightly decreasing. According to the latest digital test from 2021, the audience from age 14 to 17, adolescents, as well as young people aged 18 to 24 are especially susceptible to this
05.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
Expanding the Possibilities of Digital Development for the Youth
Research shows that every Russian spends an average of seven hours a day online, i.e., a full working day. And I’m sure this figure is much higher for young people. […] All the problems that have just been voiced are absolutely relevant and concern young people. Destructive content is being distributed, and we’re talking not only about illegal content, but also about such ugly things as cyberbullying and trash content. There are also concerns about data safety