<p>Global city ranking 2019 prepared by 2thinknow with 500 benchmark cities classified and ranked according to 162 performance indicators in three blocks: Infrastructure for Human Capital, Market Capacity and Cultural Heritage. Experts compared gross regional product figures, number of representative offices of international companies, standard of living and education, presence of industrial clusters and own city brand. Specialists focused on the policy of the authorities in IT development, wireless networks and e-payment system, too.</p>

<p>In 2019 Moscow has moved up 10 spots (from 48th to 38th).&nbsp;To put that in context: in 2012, Moscow was 192nd in this survey.</p>

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Global city ranking 2019 with 500 benchmark cities classified and ranked according to 162 performance indicators.

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Innovation Cities Index 2019

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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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                            <p class="quote-owner__description">Minister of the Government of Moscow, Head of the Moscow Department of Information Technologies</p>
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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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    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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    <a href="https://ict.moscow/en/card/face-pay/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Face Pay</a>
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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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Moscow Names Top AI Services Used in the City's Healthcare System

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    The first industrial test site in Russia with 5G infrastructure for piloting healthcare technologies has been deployed in Moscow. An agreement on this was signed today by the Moscow Center for Innovative Technologies in Healthcare, the Botkin City Clinical Hospital, the Moscow Department of Information Technologies (DIT) as well as <a href="https://ict.moscow/en/cards/?tags=Rostelecom" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rostelecom</a>, within the framework of the <a href="https://social-forum.ru/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">IV Forum of Social Innovations in Regions</a>.
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    The applied research, testing of prototypes and pilot solutions, digital services will be carried out on the basis of the 5G test site. In particular, it is planned to test VR simulators for training doctors, AR solutions for helping doctors during operations, remote monitoring of patients' condition in real-time, etc. Based on the results of the experiment, scenarios for using 5G networks in healthcare will be determined.
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    The search, selection and testing of medical services will be handled by the Moscow Center for Innovative Technologies in Healthcare. Rostelecom will provide 5G infrastructure, while Botkin Hospital will install the clinical infrastructure for research. The work will be coordinated by DIT.
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    The creation of industrial landfills is provided for by the roadmap for the development of 5G networks, <a href="https://ict.moscow/en/news/the-cabinet-of-ministers-of-russia-approved-the-roadmap-for-the-development-of-mobile-networks-of-the-fifth-generation/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">approved</a> by the government of the Russian Federation in November. In June, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and the president of Rostelecom <a href="https://ict.moscow/en/news/moscow-and-rostelecom-will-create-a-5g-industrial-test-site/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">signed</a> an agreement on the joint development of 5G communication networks in the capital and the creation of an industrial testing ground in Moscow.
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    <a href="https://ict.moscow/news/v-moskve-na-baze-botkinskoi-bolnitsy-poiavitsia-pervyi-v-rossii-5g-poligon/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Original (in Russian)</a>
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The first 5G Polygon in Russia to Appear on the Basis of Botkin Hospital in Moscow

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    A medtech park will soon start operating in Moscow to help startups in the healthcare sector. This was announced by the head of the Moscow Center For Innovative Technologies in Healthcare Vyacheslav Shulenin.
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    Technopark residents will receive free access to databases available in Moscow healthcare. “We will try as much as possible all these resources, which are now in Moscow health care, to combine into a single base, and on the basis of our medical technopark, which will be located at 96, Vernadsky Avenue, to implement,” said Shulenin.
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    In addition, ANO together with Medsi Group of Companies launched an accelerator for the selection of projects in the field of artificial intelligence and big data, which will be piloted in Moscow institutions and clinics of the group of companies.
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    <a href="https://www.facebook.com/vvshulenin" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Vyacheslav Shulenin</a>, General Director of ANO "Moscow Center for Innovative Technologies in Health Care"
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    The fact that an autonomous non-profit organization the Moscow Center For Innovative Technologies in Healthcare would be created with the participation of the Moscow government <a href="https://ict.moscow/en/news/an-organisation-engaged-in-the-implementation-of-innovations-in-healthcare-will-be-created-in-moscow/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">was announced</a> in March this year.
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    <a href="https://ict.moscow/news/v-moskve-sozdali-meditsinskii-tekhnopark-dlia-razvitiia-startapov-v-zdravookhranenii/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Original (in Russian)</a>
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A Technology Park for Healthcare Startups Created in Moscow 

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Surfshark

Moscow holds 30th place in the ranking with  77 CCTV cameras per square kilometer.

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Surveillance Cities

Z_Yen

Moscow moved up three positions and was ranked 44th.

Z / Yen

The Smart Centres Index 2

Report

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VR / AR, IoT, AI, robotics, and cloud technologies aremost often tested in 5G laboratory-type sites.

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Analysis of the global experience in piloting solutions on the basis of various laboratory-type 5G sites

Moscow ranked eighth among cities in the world in terms of innovative attractiveness.

Innovation Cities Index 2019

Surveillance Cities

The Smart Centres Index 2

Analysis of the global experience in piloting solutions on the basis of various laboratory-type 5G sites

HSE Global Cities Innovation Index 2020