About the Event
On 18-22 December 2023, the Winter E-Governance Knowledge Sharing Week for African officials was held in Moscow. Within the week, 44 representatives from 23 African countries, international (UN Economic Commission for Africa) and regional (IGAD, ECCAS) organizations, from heads of relevant departments to ministers, shared their experience of digitalization of public administration in their countries and got acquainted with Russian experience and solutions in this field.
Officials from African countries attended presentations by Russian and African experts (government and private sector representatives), discussed the prospects and directions of further digitalization of the continent and cooperation with Russia in this area. The topics covered ranged from financing and strategic planning of the digital transformation of the public administration to cybersecurity, digitalization of certain sectors (education, taxation), use of artificial intelligence in public administration, and the use of geoinformation data.
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To support and intensify knowledge exchange between the African and Russian sides, the website of the Knowledge Sharing Program – E-Governance Knowledge Hub was launched with information on e-government development in African countries and personal accounts for the participants of the Knowledge Sharing Week.
The Knowledge Sharing Week was organized by the Center for African Studies of the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University), coorganized by the non-state development institute Innopraktika and the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with expert support provided by the HSE Institute for Public Administration and Governance (IPAG). The week was held within the E-Governance Knowledge Sharing Program for Africa, which is supported by the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation, the Government of Russia, the Ministry of Digital Development and the Ministry of Finance, as well as other Russian government agencies.
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Contributors
Program
Moderator
Fedor Lukyanov – Editor-in-Chief of the magazine “Russia in Global Affairs”, research professor at the HSE University, Chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy
Participants:
Andrey Maslov – Coordinator of the e-Governance Knowledge Sharing Program
Alexandr Pavlov – Director General of Russian Information Technology Development Fund (RFRIT)
Igor Lyapunov – Senior Vice President for Information Security at Rostelecom and General Director of Rostelecom-Solar
Oleg Kachanov – Deputy Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Communications of Russia
Moctar Seck – Head of the Innovation and Technology Sector of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)
Oleg Ozerov – Head of the secretariat of the Russia- Africa Partnership Forum, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
Tafadzwa Muguti – Permanent Secretary in the Office of the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe
Nkundwe Mwasaga – Director General of the Information and Communication Technology Commission of the Republic of Tanzania
Kamalidini Souef – Minister of Posts, Telecommunications and Digital Economy of the Union of the Comoros
Oleg Kachanov – Deputy Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Communications of Russia
the Niches and Opportunities for the Partnership
Moctar Seck – Head of the Innovation and Technology Sector of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)
Nkundwe Mwasaga – Director General of the Information and Communication Technology Commission of the Republic of Tanzania
Alexey Chukarin – Director of the Department of Digital Transformation and Coordination of Budget Expenditures, Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Communications of Russia
Alexander Pavlov – General Director of the Russian Information Technology Development Fund
Wubayehu Mamo Agonafir – Director of the National Archives and Library of the Republic of Ethiopia
Elvira Chache – Executive Director, Sber AI
Ekaterina Mikhailu – Head of the Department of Advanced International Projects of the Department of International Cooperation and Currency Control; Federal Tax Service
Marat Zembatov – Director of Center of Interdisciplinary Research, Institute for Public Administration and Governance, NRU HSE
Anna Khvorikova – Head of Work with Public Authorities (GR) of Kribrum company
Ivan Orlov – Leading Analyst at Kribrum
Yuliya Poletaeva – Deputy Director General of INPO Dialogue
Oleg Sedov – Director of Development, GC Solar
Dmitry Sakharchuk – Technical director of Bulat LLC
Sergey Kozlov – Deputy Director of Global Сenter of cybersecurity solutions expertise, Kaspersky
Anton Zykov – Yango VP (Public Policy)
Collins Agu – Director Research & Development, National Information Technology Development Agency ( NITDA), Nigeria
Pavel Stepanov – Deputy General Director of Geoscan Group of Companies
Alexey Ivanov – Deputy General Director for Foreign Economic Activity and Work with government Agencies, representative of T8 LLC
Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy (VDNH)
Maria Prokopchina – Deputy Head of the Smart Project Development Department in the Government of Moscow
Elizaveta Prokofieva – Director of the Department of Data Analysis, Digital Solutions and Technologies in Healthcare, ANO Moscow Center for Innovative Technologies in Healthcare
Evgeniy Kozlov – First Deputy Head of the Office of the Mayor and Government of Moscow, Chairman of the Moscow Tourism Committee
e-Governance in Africa 2024:
Challenges and Opportunities
Pokrovsky Boulevard 11, HSE University Durasov House’s White Hall
Marriott Moscow Grand Hotel
Speakers
The Program is led by the HSE University Center for African Studies and is being implemented with the support of the Non-State Development Institute «Innopraktika», and we are proud to have one of the biggest IT companies Rostelecom as our partner.
Adeniyi Adebayo is the Chief Business Development Officer at Yango that operates a ride-hailing app developed by Russian tech company Yandex. Born in Nigeria, he is a graduate of Kazan (Russia) National Research Technological University, MIT (USA) and Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Moscow, Russia).
Prior to becoming the Head of Africa at Yango in 2021 and then CBDO, he worked for HSE University and launched several successful startup ventures in the ICT sphere.
Andrey Maslov is Director of HSE Centre for African Studies. Graduate of the African Studies Department, St. Petersburg State University. In 2006, he received the Derzhava Award for his «What Policy in Africa Does Russia Need?» project as the chairperson of the non-profit partnership Rosafroekspertiza (2003-2008).
He further gained a wide range of experiences working in Africa for banking and energy ventures. He contributed to the strategic roadmapping for digital geo-information systems and control rooms for critical infrastructure across Africa.
Konstantin Noskov is the CEO of RusHighTechExport – the company promoting Russian digital solutions to the global market. Graduate of Moscow State University of Instrument Engineering and Computer Science and HSE University, he worked for the Russian Government as Director of the ICT Department of the Government, Head of the Analytical Center for the Government, and Minister of Digital Development.
He was one of the leaders of projects to create a Portal of public services, a System of governmental electronic interaction, Open Data, etc. Mr. Noskov and RusHighTechExport work with a number of leading Russian software developers and telecommunication equipment vendors and educational organizations.
Anna Sanina is a Leading Research Fellow at the HSE International Laboratory for Digital Transformation in Public Administration and an Associate professor at the Department of Public Administration. Graduate of the Social Science Department, St. Petersburg State University, she holds a Candidate of Sciences degree (PhD) in Management Sociology. Dr. Sanina also was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Indiana University (USA).
Dr. Sanina studies the social efficiency of digital transformation in public administration and technologies and innovations in urban governance. Her research and teaching experience was awarded several prestigious awards and prizes, including the medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences for young scientists.
Evgeny Styrin is the Head of the International Laboratory for Digital Transformation in Public Administration at HSE University. Graduate of Lomonosov Moscow State University, since 2010 he has been working for HSE University.
Dr. Styrin conducts research in the field of digital transformation in public administration, provides expertise to the Russian government in digital public services provision, data governance.
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The Program is led by the HSE University Center for African Studies and is being implemented with the support of the Non-State Development Institute «Innopraktika», and we are proud to have one of the biggest IT companies Rostelecom as our partner.
