Joint Projects and Development Activities in the Field of Digital Economies and Innovation of Serbia and Russia

Abstract

This paper conducts the analysis of bilateral cooperation between Serbia and Russia in the field of digital economy and innovation. At a meeting in Moscow in 2018, the Serbian Minister for Innovation and Technological Development and the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation for Digital Economy, Transport and Communications agreed on cooperation in the field of industry digitization, innovation, the Internet of things, big data technology and cyber security. Descriptive, comparative, assay, and synthesis methods were used for this research. The paper describes a Russian digital economy project that excess $24.5 billion, of which $ 15 billion is planned to come from the Federal Budget. The project, which ends in 2024, envisages funding for education in the fields of information technology, digital literacy and artificial intelligence. Russia, together with Serbia, will implement a digital pilot project to assist in the movement of people and access to information for citizens of Serbia in Russia and citizens of Russia in Serbia. The projects "Boiling Point" and "Smart City" are also described and analyzed, as well as the international exhibition "Russian Digital Cooperation at Universities", held at the end of October 2019 in Belgrade. The exhibition presents educational programs and promising projects in the field of digital economy that are being implemented at several Russian universities. The first digital dialogue between Serbia and Russia, as part of President Vladimir Putin's visit to Serbia on January 17, 2019, concluded that innovation and the digital economy will play a key role in the development of Serbia-Russia relations in the future.