In 2025, the Center for Global IT Cooperation (CGITC) is among the organizers of a number of issue-related sessions within the framework of national and international forums on Internet governance:

• 15th Russian Internet Governance Forum RIGF 2025, April 7-8, 2025, Moscow. Speakers and participants of the anniversary RIGF 2025 will discuss topical issues of global network development and Internet governance.
• Youth Digital Forum (Youth RIGF 2025) – April 2025, Moscow, organized by the Center for Global IT Cooperation (see the link to Youth RIGF 2024)
• 20th edition of the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF Lillestrom/Oslo 2025), June 23 - 27, 2025, Lillestrom, Kingdom of Norway

For this series of events, the Center plans to release a specialized Collection of Expert Articles from Russian and foreign authors/author groups on a wide range of issues related to Internet governance.

The topics of the Collection's articles can be very diverse, taking into account the wide coverage of issues related to the development of the Internet (current challenges in the field of information space and the digital economy, the problems of introducing and using end-to-end digital technologies, tasks and measures to strengthen the IT industry, etc.; article format – overview, analysis, scenarios, forecasts, proposals and recommendations, examples of topics – see below). The authors can be holders of an academic degree, as well as graduate students, undergraduates, bachelors, or other relevant experts and researchers.

The author's texts will be presented in a separate printing edition produced by the Center for Global IT Cooperation – "The Internet Today and Tomorrow 2025". The Collection will be posted in the RSCI database. (The Collection of 2024 is available on the Center's website, as well as on the resource of the Scientific Electronic Library.)

As the publications are collected, the issue of translating texts into English for presentation to a foreign audience at the above-mentioned and other forums will be considered.

The presentation of the Collection at the relevant sessions of Russian forums, including with the possible participation of the authors, will be included in the agenda of the events. The Center will also take care of the dissemination of information and promotion of the Collection in Russian and foreign media.

Article execution: Russian or English, approximate volume: 3-5 pages, font: Times New Roman, size: 12, spacing: 1.15, list of sources

Previously unpublished articles are accepted in the Collection.

A fair copy of the article should be submitted no later than March 7, 2025.

All experts who wish to join the project are kindly requested to contact the Center for Global IT Cooperation in advance (applications are open from January 13, 2025), and if possible, distribute this information to colleagues potentially interested in participating. Please send applications and finished materials to: r.shamraev@cgitc.ru, info@cgitc.ru

Objectives of the Center's initiative

1. To intensify the discussion on the development of the Internet, digital technologies and the information environment in the Russian and international space;
2. To strengthen coordination between specialists – the Collection as a tool for inter-institutional dialogue;
3. To replenish the scientific and research base on the implementation and use of digital technologies;
   
4. To identify and analyze current challenges;
5. To identify priority tasks for strengthening the Russian segment of the Internet and the IT industry as a whole
    To develop balanced positions and priorities for Russia's effective participation in international cooperation in modern conditions.
   
   

Possible article formats:

• summary of factual material, overview information;
• analytics;
• identification of risks and threats;
• useful international experience;
• ideas, suggestions and recommendations;
• formation of concepts and national approach;
• estimates, forecasts and prospects.

Examples of article topics for the RIGF 2025 Collection

• the management and regulatory system in any of the areas of digitalization – challenges and solutions, soft law tools, regulatory legal acts, etc.
• development and problems of the Internet – infrastructure, technologies, access, fragmentation, threats and risks, regulatory issues, etc.
• The Internet Governance Forum (IGF), the Global Digital Compact (GDC), the World Summit on the Information Society – WSIS+20, the UN Convention against Cybercrime 2024, projects of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and other projects within the framework of the UN digital agenda
• development of IT cooperation, international cooperation, international organizations, negotiation process
• the role of actors and their interaction in the IT sector: government - business - society
• ICT export
• digital transformation – concepts, trends, analysis, forecasts; issues of ICT development in industries, AI, blockchain, Web 3.0, metaverses, etc.
• cybersecurity and critical infrastructure protection issues
• protecting online users, countering discrimination, manipulation, and the spread of destructive content - risk and threat analysis, equal opportunities, human rights, privacy, and data protection
• global digital tax, fines, sanctions, restrictive measures