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Roscongress Foundation’s Innovation Space to Present Advanced Solutions for Africa

The Roscongress Foundation’s Innovation Space will be open on 27–28 July 2023 at the Russia–Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum. The project is a unique platform that is used to present the latest technologies and discuss trends in innovation and digital transformation with leading experts.

The Innovation Space will be held in three formats: a Lecture Hall, an IT cluster, as well as universities and an exhibition of innovative companies.

At the Innovation Space’s Lecture Hall, CEOs of major companies, representatives of the authorities, and experts will speak about trends in the digitalization of the economy. The discussion will cover a wide range of topics: from the digital transformation of the Federal Tax Service to the logistics of grain exports (the latter session will be held with the support of Technotrans Group, which is building a marine grain terminal on the coast of the Baltic Sea in the Leningrad Region’s Vyborgsky District).

One of the sessions will be devoted to the transfering of competences and exchange of experience in digitalization of e-governance. The participants will discuss the prospects and mechanisms for enhancing bilateral cooperation between Russia and Africa in such matters. In particular, the Higher School of Economics and the company Innopraktika will present the Knowledge Exchange Programme about the digitalization of public administration.

Another cross-cutting theme of the Lecture Hall will be cybersecurity. It is no secret that cyber threats are becoming more common on the African continent, and many countries and businesses are not properly prepared for them. For its part, Russia has world-class expertise on such matters without exaggeration. Such recognized industry leaders as Positive Technologies, Doctor Web, Zecurion, and Security Code, which are partners of the Roscongress Foundation’s Innovation Space, will share their expertise with Forum participants.

The IT cluster will offer participants a firsthand view of the products and services of these and other well-known Russian IT companies whose solutions are pertinent for African countries. Many of them are already actively being used in Africa.

The Innovation Space’s exhibition will showcase the scientific and technological potential of Russian universities and startups, including Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University, Armastek Scientific and Production Company, Proteus Scientific and Technical Centre, and Aquagenica.

For more details about the Innovation Space programme, please visit the official website of the Summit and Forum.

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“We highly value the results of our joint work at the summit. I am sure the achieved results are creating a good foundation for further deepening the Russia-Africa partnership in the interests of our nations’ prosperity and wellbeing.”

President of the Russian Federation
Vladimir Putin

The Russia–Africa Summit, which is taking place in Sochi on 23–24 October 2019, encapsulates the historically friendly relations between the African continent and the Russian Federation. This Summit carries great significance as it is the first of its kind to emerge during a period of major global and international transformations. In response to the aspirations of the people it is representing, the Summit intends to build a comprehensive framework for expanding Russian–African relations into broader horizons of joint cooperation across different fields.

The African nations and Russia share a common understanding of international relations, based on the principles of respect for the rule of international law, equality, non-interference in the internal affairs of states, and the peaceful resolution of disputes. Both sides affirm their commitment to support multilateral actions to oppose new international threats, be they terrorism and extremism in all their forms, or declining growth rates. The two sides share a firm conviction regarding the importance of developing trade flows and supporting mutual investment in such a way as to ensure security, peace and development for the African and Russian people.

African countries have huge potential and opportunities that will allow them, once efforts to streamline their economies have been achieved, to emerge as real global players. In recent years, the nations of this continent have achieved major successes spanning the political, economic, social and administrative spheres. Africa has flourished in terms of growth over the past decade, reaching a continent-wide growth rate of 3.55% in 2018.

The African Union Summit, which was held in Niger in July 2019, continued the efforts of the African countries and saw the African Continental Free Trade Agreement come into force, along with its operational instruments. The agreement is one of the key objectives of Agenda 2063, an African development strategy that has been created to address the African people’s desire for prosperity and decent living standards.

These successes are opening up wide-ranging prospects for cooperation between African countries and the Russian Federation, and confirm the determination of African governments and their people to cooperate with multiple partners in order to establish mutually beneficial relations.

With this in mind, we express our hopes that the Russia–Africa Summit will help in the establishment of constructive strategic relations, based on partnership between two sides across various fields, and in the service of fulfilling the hopes and aspirations of the African people and their friends in Russia.

President of the Arab Republic of Egypt
Abdelfattah ALSISI