On December 2, 2014, RIAC Program Manager
Ekaterina Chimiris
and Program Coordinator
Anna Kuznetsova
made a report “Promotion of Universities in Global Internet” at the Russian-Italian conference
“Globalization 2.0: New Approaches to Teaching and Research
” held at the
Venice International University
.
The highly responsive participants, among them representatives of Russian universities with RIAC corporate ...
... restricted access to many sites and actively operates the Golden Shield Project (the Great Firewall of China), which allows governmental agencies to filter almost all inbound and outbound traffic.
Where is China Investing?
Forbes Infographics
Protecting the Russian segment of the Internet
is particularly relevant in view of the worsening international political situation. It is worth noting that the official position of the Chinese government on the issue is very close to that of Russia. The PRC government aims to keep public ...
... engagement in Russia. On the contrary, the paper reveals political discussion to be a central feature of Runet blogs. Furthermore, the study also noted several significant differences between political discourse in the Russian and United States blogospheres. Russian internet users are far more likely to engage across ideological divides and examine a far wider range of sources than their US counterparts. In doing so, they avoid the ‘echo chamber’ effect common in US networks, by which internet users form ...
RIAC’s Working Paper “Russia and Challenges of the Digital Environment” offers an inventive view on the problem of Big Data and its relationship with the nation’s digital sovereignty. Among other things, the paper considers the quickly evolving Big Data biological ...
RIAC Program Director Ivan Timofeyev held workshop “Promotion of Russian Exporters in Foreign Internet: Basics of Content Management” for businesses and government of Tver Region.
Focused on RIAC’s
A+Standard
program, the workshop was used to familiarize the participants with the fundamentals for the making of the corporate websites ...
Working paper #15 / 2014
This working paper was written as part of the Russian International Affairs Council’s project “Information Security, Response to Cyber Threats and the Use of the Internet to Defend Russia’s National Interests on the International Scene.”
In their articles, the authors expound on Russia’s presence in cyberspace and suggest the identification of a reference point from which to develop the discussion and seek an effective strategy ...