On September 18, the Valdai Club hosted a discussion dedicated to the technological gap between developed and developing countries, titled “How to Avoid Inequality in Access to the Digital Future.” Igor Ashmanov, President of Kribrum JSC, Member of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights; Jacques Sapir, Professor of Economics at the Paris Higher School of Social Sciences (EHESS) and Lomonosov Moscow State University; Rasigan Maharajh, Chief Director of the Institute for Economic Research on Innovation at the Tshwane University of Technology (South Africa); Radhika Desai, Professor, Faculty of Political Studies, Director of the Geopolitical Economics Research Group, University of Manitoba (Canada); Arvind Gupta, Chairman and Co-founder of Digital India Foundation; Konstantin Pantserev, Professor at the Department of Theory and History of International Relations, Faculty of International Relations, St. Petersburg State University, participated. The event was moderated by Oleg Barabanov, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club.