Valdai Club

Evgeniy Perevodchikov

Liliana Proskuryakova

Andrei Pyatakov

Friedbert Pflüger

John Peet

Olga Potemkina

Uma Purushothaman

Gleb Pavlovsky

Eduard Ponarin

Konstantin Pantserev

Russian Federation

PhD in political science, Professor, St. Petersburg State University. Director of the International Center of African Studies.

Materials

The Role of Advanced Technologies in Destabilising the Political Situation in Sub-Saharan Africa

The problem of ensuring peace and security continues to be one of the key challenges facing African countries, which, of course, creates certain obstacles to sustainable development. Protests in Africa vary in nature and intensity. In some countries they have developed into a protracted civil war between various factions, while in other countries they’ve managed to proceed with fewer casualties.

The Problem of Technological Sovereignty in the Era of Artificial Intelligence (Using the Example of Sub-Saharan African Countries)

Technological innovations that African states are so proud of are often based on Western technologies, and the world’s largest IT companies, such as Microsoft, IBM and Google, under the pretext of introducing and localising their innovative technical solutions into the IT sector of African countries strive to gain a strong foothold in the promising African market, writes
Konstantin Pantserev.

Training Highly Qualified Personnel for African Countries: The Role of Russia

Russia is extremely interested in making education accessible to Africans. Today, according to various estimates, about 35,000 students from Africa study at Russian universities. In order to make education in Russia more accessible to students from Africa, the Russian-African Network University was created in August 2021, in which 12 Russian universities participate, Konstantin Pantserev writes.

Video

Protest Movements in Africa. An Expert Discussion

26.10.2023