Tech in Moscow #22 (1 - 7 February 2021)

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Tech in Moscow #22 (1 - 7 February 2021)

February 8, 2021, 14:00 (UTC+3)|

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The weekly observer of Moscow's tech stories

MARKET IN BRIEF

main news about Moscow's projects, developers and technologies

Source: https://digital.ac.gov.ru/news/848/

Rostec creates a consortium of 5G equipment developers

Mail.ru Cloud Solutions has launched a data center in Amsterdam (Cards of Mail.ru Cloud Solutions)

Care Mentor AI service entered the SBERmed.AI digital ecosystem (Card of Care Mentor AI)

Shvabe holding and AI developer iPavlov signed a partnership agreement on joint digitalisation of healthcare and modernisation of cities (Card of iPavlov)

The Moscow Scientific and Technical Center "Module" has developed a neural network for viral pneumonia detection

GOV AGENDA

The Ministry of Digital Development proposed not to consider the geolocation of subscribers a secrecy of communication

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INVESTMENT DEALS

Russian Direct Investment Fund bought out a stake in Russian AliExpress from Alibaba

Yandex purchases part of the assets of the Vezet taxi company for $178 million

Developer of AI image recognition systems NVI Solutions attracted investment for development (Cards of NVI Solutions)

The developer of IoT solutions Sodis Lab attracted investments from Rostec (Cards of Sodis Lab)

Rusonyx hosting provider acquires Infobox for $1.1 million

Moscow-based company PIM solutions raised $1.3 million for project scaling (Сard of PIM Solutions)

ANALYTICS AND INSIGHTS

researches, monitorings, reports and other analytics of Moscow and Russian IT market

Huawei: Russia is included in the Adopters cluster and ranked 42nd in the Global Connectivity Index →

PwC and ABBYY: most companies in Russia do not use 100% of the opportunities of technology and innovation →

Beeline: every third subscriber makes voice calls to VoLTE in Moscow →

VCIOM: WhatsApp is the most popular messenger among Russians →

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LONGREAD

Expert column by Kirill Polyakov, Head of Distributed Registry Technology department at the IT Department of Moscow Government.

For the first time, remote electronic voting was conducted as an experiment during the elections of deputies to the Moscow City Duma on September 8, 2019 in three voting districts. The solution was created from scratch and tested by the IT Department of Moscow Government in less than one year. Most of the key participants and customers claim that the experience was successful, the system passed all the tests and proved its resistance to hacking.

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