Conception

Concept
of the XI International IT Forum with the participation of BRICS and the SCO countries

UNDER THE AUSPICES

Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO

ORGANIZERS

Government of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Ugra

Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Ugra

Government of the city of Khanty-Mansiysk

Ugra Research Institute of Information Technologies

GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE FORUM          

• Define the programs of regional development. Coordination of interregional and federal interaction. Development of tactics of behavior in the rapidly changing market.

• Maintain the dialogue of experts on joint efforts within the framework of the BRICS / SCO. Discussion of completed projects and development of plans for the near future.

• Realize the potential of the autonomous Okrug as a leader in the field of digitization. To reaffirm the Okrug’s aspiration to continue its digital development, to remain open to the interregional communication, to accumulate federal priorities and strengthen its position as the main expert platform of the Russian Federation to promote the joint economic agenda of the BRICS / SCO countries.

TO ACHIEVE THE OBJECTIVES, THE FOLLOWING CHALLENGES WILL BE MET:

• Use the capabilities of the organizations that take part in other international discussions, conferences, symposia and meetings to prepare the Forum and highlight the results of the events.

• Continue the practice of hosting annual international conferences on information security in Khanty-Mansiysk with the participation of the BRICS, SCO, CSTO and other countries.

• Focus the events of the Forum on discussions and panel sessions held within the framework of specified topics while maintaining open and substantive discussion of the topics which are of interest for the audience and finding solutions to controversial issues.

• Organization of exhibition space to enable sharing the results of case studies and for demonstration of interactive presentations.

• Identify the forms of cooperation under the program of the Scientific and Technical Initiative.

• Discuss the proposals of the subjects of the Russian Federation on achievement of the objectives and target set in the national projects, and on the amount of their financing.

• Sign cooperation agreements in the area of development of digital technologies between Russian and foreign companies (organizations).

• Demonstrate technological potential of Russian developers of IT products to Russian and foreign experts.

• Demonstrate Ugra achievements in the area of application of digital technologies for the development of various fields of the economy.

FORUM AGENDA PRIORITIES

1. Digitization as an impulse to the development of cooperation among the BRICS and SCO countries:

• Experience of the BRICS and SCO countries in implementing projects in the field of information and communication technologies, infrastructure, industry, social services, public administration, and regulatory practice in the digital economy.

• Development of state measures to provide for the technological independence.

• Mechanisms of equal participation of all states in the development and management of the Internet, the structure of management of its key resources should be international.

• Inter-industry digital platforms to design and produce up-to-date globally competitive products, run virtual tests, create virtual test sites and stands, “digital twins”.

• The problem of competition in digital markets.

• Data regulation and protection.

• Development of electronic commerce and trade.

• Interstate electronic document management system.

• Financing joint projects and setting up funds in the field of high technologies and innovations.

• Best practices in implementing international projects in the regions of the Russian Federation.

2. Development of systems and control of changes in the digital economy:

• Organize the process of management of change in regulation of digital economy.

• Functional structure of the management system for the implementation of the national project "Digital Economy of the Russian Federation", work experience.

• Establish the best practices and harmonize national projects, federal and departmental programs.

• Effectiveness and fitness for purpose of the development project financing mechanisms.

• Centralized online system for monitoring of the implementation of the national projects.

• Russian IT products: value for money.

• Transition of public companies to Russian software.

3. Establishing and promoting joint project initiatives in the BRICS and SCO countries:

• Create a network business accelerator of the BRICS and SCO countries for prototyping and scaling of the intercountry high-tech projects implemented by integration teams.

• Create a single blockchain platform for the BRICS and SCO countries as a trade and exhibition platform with a crowdfunding module to promote high-tech projects.

• Harmonize tax and customs regulations of production and exchange of the high-end / high-tech equipment and complex computing devices among the BRICS and SCO countries.

• Establish a single agency for the BRICS and SCO countries to protect the intellectual property rights.

• Expand the interaction of the national payment systems, creating a new international payment system.

• Create an information field to facilitate the implementation of joint projects.

• Enable joint import substitution in the BRICS / SCO countries.

• Develop the practice of interaction among regional development institutions of the BRICS and SCO countries and business development institutions.

4. E-government:

• Development of a mechanism to coordinate the technical requirements and functionality of the centralized federal systems (National Healthcare Information System, GIS for support of activities, Standard Cloud Solution for Automation of Monitoring and Supervisory Activities, National Social Security Information System, Unified Registry of Civil Registry Offices) with the regions.

• Current results of use of the biometric identification.

• Concept of the national data management system.

• Digital transformation of governmental (municipal) services and super services.

• Storage and processing of the information generated by public authorities on the national cloud platform using a service model.

• A mechanism to stimulate the operators' investment activity to develop communication networks based on advanced technologies.

• Access to the infrastructure of the e-government using the national mobile OS.

• Centralization of import substitution issues at the regional level.

• Creating the end-to-end digital infrastructure and platforms.

• Digital control and supervision.

• Personnel assessment and motivation system.

• Registry model of public services.

• Creation of digital profiles of individuals and legal entities.

• Integrated platform GosWeb (governmental Web).

• Functions of digital transformation directors.

• Up-to-date forms of electronic interaction with the citizens when rendering services in the field of public social security.

5. Information security:

• UN resolution on global cyber security.

• "Independent Internet" for the BRICS countries.

• Integrated information security solutions of various countries during transition to the digital economy, including information security of the critical information infrastructure.

• Digital transformation in the field of communications, mass communications, Internet: solutions to ensure the security and reliability of electronic communications and electronic services rendered to the public.

• Methodology to assess the information security indices in the public communication networks.

• Information security in the financial markets.

• Digitization in the power engineering, industry and transport, protection of large enterprises and automated control systems against cyber attacks.

• Proposals to promote Russian solutions in the field of information security abroad.

• Coordinating the participation of experts in the activities of international organizations that develop standards in the field of cryptography and IT security.

• Gradual shift away from the use of foreign system software.

6. Integrated healthcare information circuit:

• Seamless integration of all MIS into a single digital circuit.

• Legal regulation quality in the field of healthcare digitization.

• Qualified medical assistance via the Internet using telemedicine technologies (doctor-to-doctor).

• Medical assistance continuity in medical organizations.

• Drug labeling – new technical requirements.

• Electronic prescription and electronic sick note: experience of application.

• Electronic medical documentation: specifics of implementation, international experience.

• Telemedicine technologies (doctor-patient): outlooks in Russia and international experience.

• New technologies in medicine: artificial intelligence, big data analysis, blockchain.

7. Digital education and personnel for the new economy:

• Staffing for implementation of national projects.

• Adjustment of target numbers set for admission to get secondary and higher vocational education undergo refresher training paid from the budget.

• Improve regulatory frameworks to promote the use of online courses by the higher education institutions.

• Joint management training program to develop digitization of the BRICS and SCO economies with the participation of leading universities of the member countries.

• Experience acquired while creating the Russian e-school and implementing other similar international projects.

• Requirements relevant to key competencies in the digital economy for each level of education, their inclusion into the education system, and ensuring their continuity.

• The concept of basic competency model and the list of key competencies in the digital economy.

• Motivation of highly qualified foreign specialists to participate in the development of the digital economy in Russia.

• Training of specialists to enable them to work with the software developed in Russia.

8. Culture as an essential component of the digital economy:

• Expanding the network of the Centers for remote access to information resources of the Presidential Library on the basis of cultural and educational institutions.

• Creation of virtual concert halls.

• Digital transformation of the culture: the role of augmented reality technologies and other innovations in the popularization of the cultural heritage among the people.

• Projects and initiatives to create the digital knowledge space and the National Electronic Library.

• Sharing the best practices, expanding cooperation among the public cultural institutions of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Ugra and the cultural institutions of the BRICS and SCO countries in the field of digitization of the cultural heritage.

• Corporatism, integration and digitization as the main trends in the development of the libraries.

• Access to cultural values for people with disabilities.

• Digital technologies for preservation of intangible and tangible cultural heritage and methodological support of creative processes.

9. Regulatory framework for the digital environment:

• Regulatory and legal acts that provide incentives for the development of the digital economy, legal aspects of platform economics.

• PPP for digitalization.

• Regulation of "legal sandboxes".

• Providing favorable legal conditions for data collection, storage and processing.

• Improvement of standardization mechanisms.

• Preservation of digital user data in the digital environment.

• Regulation of the development of "smart cities".

• Legal conditions to create electronic civil circulation environment.

• Legal conditions for efficient use of intellectual activity results, the reasons for the decline in patent activity in the Russian Federation.

• Regulation of the circulation of digital financial assets, crowdfunding and smart contracts.

• Creating a digital environment of trust, digital notarial system.

• Legal support for the implementation of the registry model for the provision of public services.

• Harmonizing the legislation in the BRICS / SCO countries.

10. IT in oil and gas industry: digital oil field – the present and the future of the digitization in the industry:

• Remote monitoring of industrial facilities.

• Creation of dynamic digital models of oil fields, optimal control of field development based on geological and hydrodynamic modeling.

• Digitization of wells and fields, intellectualization of the processes of exploration, production and oil transport.

• Leading-edge technologies for the oil and gas industry.

11. Comfortable and Safe Urban Environment:

• Methodology of the Ministry of Construction of the Russian Federation on the structure of regional and city projects, a set of technological mechanisms subdivided by the industries.

• Creation of the intellectual urban infrastructure – "connected economy".

• Big data in a big city, regulation methods and obstacles.

• Development of a national system for emergency prevention and response.

• Operations centers are the basis used to monitor and control the security and services in a region, a city and a large enterprise.

• Analytical solutions for building modern video surveillance and video recording systems.

• The practice of implementing intelligent systems to manage regions, cities and enterprises.

• Cooperation between ERA-GLONASS and the Chinese operator Beidou.

• System-112: experience and trends in the development of dataware for the rapid-response services.

• Digitization issues in the fields of housing and utilities, power engineering and energy conservation.

12. Digital archives of the future. Digital assets:

• Ensuring the safety and authenticity of original legally relevant archival documents.

• Acceptance of electronic documents for storage in archives.

• The prospects of a unified archival platform to eliminate digital inequality.

• Digital interaction with consumers - the expansion of public services.

• Archive services for procurement sources.

• Practice of substitute scanning.

• Archival education in a changing professional landscape.

13. The impact of changes in the information environment on the society (within the framework of the Second International Conference "Information and Communication in the Digital Era: Explicit and Implicit Impacts" under the auspices of and in cooperation with UNESCO: