<p>The fifth edition of the Cities in Motion Index (CIMI) prepared by&nbsp;IESE Business School&nbsp;evaluates cities’ level of development in relation to nine key areas or dimensions: Economy, Human Capital, Social Cohesion, Environment, Governance, Urban Planning, International Outreach, Technology, and Mobility and Transportation. The CIMI 2018 edition includes 165 cities, including 74 capitals, representing more than 80 countries.</p>

<p>Moscow placed 70th in the overall city ranking and entered top 10 in the Human Capital category.</p>

The Cities in Motion Index 2018 edition includes 165 cities, including 74 capitals, representing more than 80 countries.

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    From October 1 to October 6, 2021, for the first time, Moscow holds the finals of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC).
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    More than 60,000 student programmers from more than 3,000 universities from up to 115 countries participate in qualifying rounds each year, and only the best of them reach the finals.
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    The upcoming final will feature 100 teams with 15 from Russian teams, including five from Moscow. These are students of MIPT, Lomonosov Moscow State University, HSE, National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, and Moscow Aviation Institute.
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    The current champion is the Moscow team, which won two consecutive years. Last year, due to the pandemic, the final was not held, and in 2019 it was held in Porto (Portugal), 10 Russian teams took part in it, including three from Moscow.
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    At the final stage in Moscow, teams of three people will compete in logic, speed and strategy for five hours, defining optimal solutions for 8-12 unique algorithmic problems of varying degrees of complexity. The teams are ranked according to the number of problems solved.
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    During the online conference on the opening night, the Deputy Head of the Ministry of Digital Development Maxim Parshin recalled that Russia has been participating in this championship since 1995. At the same time, in 2021, most teams were represented by China (18 teams), Russia and India (15 teams each), Brazil (9), and South Korea (6).
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                    Today we are ahead of all other countries in the number of medals. During this time, Russian teams have become absolute world champions 14 times. In total, they won 80 sets of medals, 33 of which are gold. Moscow universities have two world championship cups, two titles of European champions and more than 20 prizes.
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                                    Maxim Parshin
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    In turn, the head of the Moscow City Information Technology Department, Eduard Lysenko, spoke about the capital's IT staff.
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                    We now have about 600,000 IT specialists in the labor market. One in five vacancies is in the field of IT or communications. There is a trend towards IT specialists. On the one hand, it’s a good sign, on the other, it is a huge challenge for the education system, business managers, government authorities, because IT is a tool for digital transformation.
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                                    Edward Lysenko
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    ICPC Executive Director, ICPC Foundation President William Poucher recalled other competitors.
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                    I represent 400,000 ICPC alumni who have participated in 43 finals that have taken place before. Today, the 44th final will be held in Moscow. ICPC is a global community of universities that ask their students to develop their problem solving skills.
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                                    William Poucher
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    ICPC is the oldest and most prestigious IT team competition in the world, which has been held annually since 1977. Russia joined the championship in 1995 and today is ahead of all countries in the number of medals. Over the last 20 years, Russian students have won 33 gold medals and have maintained a winning streak since 2012.
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    <a href="https://ict.moscow/news/v-moskve-sostoialas-onlain-konferentsiia-k-otkrytiiu-mezhdunarodnogo-chempionata-po-programmirovaniiu-icpc/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Original (in Russian)</a>
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Moscow Hosts ICPC World Championship 2021 Finals

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    Neobank and financial platform TalkBank neobank was included in the top 100 IT companies using AI, according to the international rating <a href="https://fintech.global/aifintech100/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">AIFinTech100</a>.
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    The rating was formed from 1000 applicants based on the opinions of a group of specialized experts. They evaluated IT vendors developing artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to solve problems in the financial services sector.
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    The following criteria were used to select companies:
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    <li>proposed innovative technological AI solution;</li>
    <li>sectoral significance of the problem being solved;</li>
    <li>growth in terms of attracted capital, revenue, customer acquisition;</li>
    <li>potential cost savings, efficiency gains, value chain impacts and / or increased customer revenues.</li>
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    <a href="https://ict.moscow/en/card/talkbank/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">TalkBank</a>
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    In June 2021, TalkBank <a href="https://ict.moscow/en/news/talkbank-fintech-platform-raised-over-2-7-million/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">announced</a> raising $2.7 million (218 million rubles) from the MTS venture fund, IIDF, and other investors.
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    <a href="https://ict.moscow/projects/ai/news/1869/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Original (in Russian)</a>
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Moscow-Based Fintech TalkBank Included in Top 100 Companies Using AI

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    The <a href="https://amr.ru/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Association of Managers</a> and the Kommersant Publishing House have released an annual rating of the top 50 Russian IT directors by industry and business as part of “Top 1000 Russian Managers” ranking.
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    The top three CIOs in the IT sector include Maxim Shahab from Kaspersky Lab, Alexander Filatov from Lanit, and Marina Konova from CROC.
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    The telecom category includes Viktor Belov from MTS, Grigory Savenok from MegaFon, Aleksey Berzin from Transtelecom, and Anton Rubenchik from Beeline.<br>
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    As the authors of the rating note, the CIO category this year came out on top in terms of the share of new names (58%).
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    <a href="https://t.me/ICT_Moscow/5107" target="_blank">Original (in Russian)</a>
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List of Top 50 Russian CIOs Compiled

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    Face Pay, a fare payment system using face recognition, has been launched on all lines of the Moscow metro. Now it is available on 14 lines and 241 metro stations.
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    Passage through turnstiles equipped with Face Pay is carried out where there is a round black sticker on the floor. Turnstiles supporting this fare payment method are marked with a special sticker on the floor.
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    Moscow became the first city in the world to use facial recognition for fare payments on such a scale, according to the Moscow the Department of Transport. The possibility of launching the service at the Moscow Central Circle (MCC), commuter rail lines Moscow Central Diameters (MCD) as well as ground transport is also being considered, Head of the Department of Transport Maxim Liksutov said.
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    First metro stations <a href="https://ict.moscow/en/news/moscow-metro-introduces-face-pay/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">became</a> available for Face Pay at the beginning of August 2021. Earlier in September, officials <a href="https://ict.moscow/news/v-moskve-s-15-oktiabria-na-vsekh-stantsiiakh-metro-zapustiat-face-pay/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">announced </a>that the Face Pay implementation on all Moscow Metro stations would be executed by October 15.
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    <a href="https://ict.moscow/news/v-moskve-zapustili-face-pay-na-vsekh-liniiakh-metro/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Original (in Russian)</a>
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Face Pay Launched on All Moscow Metro Stations

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    Moscow Government has published a list of the best AI solutions that has been used in the city’s clinics and hospitals.
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    For July 2021, in the field of CT for COVID, the first place was taken by the CVL service from CVisionLab, while the second was taken by the Gamma Multivox Covirus from Gammamed Soft.  Intelligent Radiology Assistant from Ira Labs was named the third-best.
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    In the direction of RG/FLG (detection of lung pathologies) for the same period, the best service was Celsus from the company Medical Visual Systems. The second and third places were taken by Care Mentor AI and the program for automated analysis of digital fluorograms from FtisisBioMed, respectively. In total, 19 services were analyzed within the framework of the rating.
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    <a href="https://ict.moscow/en/card/gamma-multivox-covirus/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Multivox</a>, <a href="https://ict.moscow/en/card/care-mentor-ai/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Care Mentor AI</a>
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    Comparison of AI services is carried out by calculating for each of them the final score for the reporting period according to four parameters, including the time of diagnosis and the minimum diagnostic accuracy of the study. The rating was compiled by experts from the Center for Diagnostics and Telemedicine on the basis of the solutions used in the Moscow experiment on AI in medicine.
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    <a href="https://ict.moscow/projects/ai/news/1839/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Original (in Russian)</a>
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