The Internet Development Institute will hold the Internet + Media Forum at the Big Media Communication Forum 2016. The event will take place on May 10-11 at the Expocenter as part of the Communication 2016 exhibition.
The co-organizers of the forum are the Russian Association for Electronic Communications (RAEC) and the Media Communication Union. The forum participants will discuss state policy and state regulation of communications, media and telecommunications; the implementation of presidential instructions following the Internet Economy 2015 Forum held in December; and roadmaps for the industry’s development and the improvement of control and supervisory activities to ease the administrative burden on businesses.
The participants will continue to work on the Internet + Media roadmap presented last December. Following the forum, the roadmap will be updated based on discussions with industry representatives and state officials over the past few months.
The agenda will also include discussion of a draft project on non-discriminatory access of Internet service providers to residential houses, legal regulation of OTT-services and improvement of the copyright management system. Special attention will be paid to such issues as promoting paid content, searching for new sources of monetization, combating piracy and developing a system of cross-platform measurement in the digital environment.
The forum will be attended by Russian Presidential Advisor, Chairman of the Internet Development Institute Council German Klimenko; Minister of Communications and Mass Media Nikolai Nikiforov; Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Chairman of ROCIT Board of Directors Leonid Levin; President of the Media Communication Union Sergei Petrov; RAEC Director Sergei Plugotarenko; representatives of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media, Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media and other agencies; top managers of leading companies (Rostelecom, MTS, Gazprom Media, STS Media, ER-Telecom, Rambler&Co, etc.); and heads of industry associations.
