On June 14, the Internet Development Institute will host the Internet + Society Forum – the fourth of eight forums on the development of the Internet industry as defined at the Internet Economy 2015 forum. The forum is supported by the ROCIT, Media Communication Union and the Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ.
Key topics of the forum include digital literacy, creating an integrated and efficient system of using information technologies by Russian citizens and developing e-government and an information society. The participants will discuss the situation with government services websites and whether all regional portals should be integrated into a single one. The agenda includes increasing the accessibility of public services online and their use by the public. The participants will also discuss the prospects for making citizens-government interaction electronic. The forum will focus on the development of Internet of Things (IoT) and big data analysis (Big Data), the experience and prospects of creating smart cities and implementing IoT in the housing and utilities, healthcare, construction and security sectors.
Significant attention will be paid to the introduction of uniform standards for the websites of government agencies.
The participants will also discuss legal regulation of information processing on the Internet and risks of spreading illegal content and information wars.
The forum will be attended by Adviser to the Russian President and Chair of the Council of the Internet Development Institute German Klimenko, Chair of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications Leonid Levin, Federation Council member Lyudmila Bokova, RAEC Director and Envoy to the Council of the Internet Development Institute Sergei Plugotarenko, ROCIT Director Sergei Grebennikov, Deputy Head of the Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor) Antonina Priyezzheva, Director of the Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ Andrey Vorobyev, Director General of InfoWatch Natalya Kasperskaya and other representatives of the government, business and industry organizations.
Online streaming and forum materials will be available on the IRI-IDea crowdsourcing platform.
For more information and online registration for the forum, visit >.
Date: June 14, 2016, 11 am.
Venue: Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency, 4 Zubovsky Boulevard, Moscow.
